2025
NET-ZERO-NEXT-GEN

NSW ASSEMBLY

Tuesday
18 November 2025

Charles Perkins Centre Auditorium
University of Sydney, Australia

NetZeroNextGen 2025

Conference Program

Conference Program

The full program will be finalised in October 2025.

A brief program structure is as follows:

9:10 -9:40
Opening and Keynote Speaker Address

9:40 -11:00
Session 1: Energy Emission

11:00-11:15
Morning tea

11:15-12:15
Panel Discussion—Future Focused: Pathways and Perspective

12:15- 13:15
Lunch

13:15- 14:35
Session 2: Decarbonisation of Healthcare Sector

14:35- 15:00
Afternoon tea

15:00 – 16:20
Session 3: Reduction and Removal

16:20- 16:30
Poster and Video Award Announcement

1. Energy Emission

“Strategies and Technologies for Low-Emission Renewable Energy.” As the world strives toward net-zero targets, renewable energy innovation is at the heart of global decarbonisation efforts. In this session, we will hear from leading researchers who will share strategies, technological developments, and insights into cutting-edge research that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through renewable energy pathways.

2. Panel Discussion

This session brings together researchers from academia and industry to share their career journeys, strategies for progression, and insights on key challenges like work-life balance, mentorship, and collaboration. The discussion will offer practical advice and personal reflections to help early-to-mid-career researchers shape their career path.

3. Decarbonisation and healthcare Sector

Cutting emissions can deliver climate benefits while also improving air quality, reducing disease, and supporting healthier communities. This session explores the critical intersection between decarbonisation and human health, and discusses the policies, innovations, and collaborations needed to achieve both environmental and health outcomes.

4. Reductions and Removal

This session explores technologies, systems, and strategies to achieve deep emissions reductions and permanent carbon removal. Experts will present advances in engineered and nature-based solutions, including innovations in circularity, the waste sector, and material systems. It highlights the technical, policy, and infrastructure shifts needed to scale removal pathways for a net-zero future