It is the the follow-up congress after the first event two years ago in Daegu, South Korea. We have delegates and speakers from several Asia Universities and businesses addressing the Congress.
 
The Fossil Fuel Age is coming to an end. The Renewable Age is just beginning.

The International Solar Cities Congress in Oxford will be a unique event: assembling in one place the mayors of over 50 cities alongside others who can really make a difference and be catalysts for change. Some of the world's top businesses, scientists and city policy-makers will be participating along with community delegates.

The Congress aims to create a clear set of measures which can be adopted by cities globally, supported by the commercial activities of businesses and technological innovations of scientists. It is expected that the resulting Oxford Route Map for Solar Cities at the end of the Congress will be a major step forward in practically mapping a pathway into the Renewable Age.

The challenges faced by us all, but especially cities, are serious. As Lord Oxburgh, a former non-Executive chairman of Shell and Chairman of the UK House of Lords Science and Technology Committee put it: "We have roughly 45 years.  And if we start now, not in 10 or 15 years' time, we have a chance." Aubrey Meyer of the Global Commons Institute believes we have more like ten years in which to make the changes we need to stabilise our climate. You will hear views from all sides of the floor at Oxford.

Speaking about her hopes for the Congress, Chairman Professor Susan Roaf says "Solar Cities are  the most effective means we have to install renewable energy systems into our economies at the rate we need to stabilise greenhouse gas emissions quickly enough to avoid runaway climate change."