The Bristol Poverty Institute (BPI) held an in-person event at the University of Bristol on 2nd November entitled 'Travel Carbon Project: Towards Net Zero and Tackling Poverty'. The Director of the Bristol Poverty Institute, Professor David Gordon, and one of his PhD students who is already a qualified medical doctor, Dr Cynthia Fonta, undertook the BPI’s Travel Carbon Project earlier this year. Their aim was to calculate both the costs and years of life which could be saved by carbon offsetting the University’s work-related emissions through funding clean cooking stoves and/or potable water provision in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. They shared their findings and the potential implications with a hybrid audience at this event. The event also benefitted from an engaging presentation from Dr Sam Williamson, who is doing work on sustainability and cooking in a range of contexts including Nepal, Sierra Leone and Uganda.

The resources from the event are shared below. To read more about the event itself, please visit the Travel Carbon Project event page.

Presentation slides

Dr Lauren Winch Introduction (Office document, 7,633kB)‌

Dr Lauren Winch, Bristol Poverty Institute Manager,  University of Bristol

 

Professor David Gordon, Travel Carbon Project Presentation (PDF, 1,029kB)

Professor David Gordon, Professorial Research Fellow in Social Justice, 

School for Policy Studies, Bristol Poverty Institute Director, University of Bristol

 

 

 

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Dr Cynthia Fonta Travel Carbon Presentation (PDF, 2,079kB)

Professor David Gordon and Dr Cynthia Fonta, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol

 

Williamson Travel Carbon (PDF, 1,437kB)

‌D‌r Sam Williamson, Electrical Energy Management Group, University of Bristol

Video

Full Event Recording