TY - JOUR T1 - Introducing the Energy Geoscience Series JF - Petroleum Geoscience JO - Petroleum Geoscience SP - 323 LP - 324 DO - 10.1144/petgeo2019-070 VL - 25 IS - 3 AU - Ringrose, Philip S. Y1 - 2019/08/01 UR - http://pg.lyellcollection.org/content/25/3/323.abstract N2 - I am pleased to announce that, during our 25th anniversary year, Petroleum Geoscience has decided to introduce a new series of papers on the theme of Energy Geoscience. Here, I briefly explain why we are doing this and why we think it is important for development of the Journal. If we imagine ourselves 25 years into the future, we might well look back on these years (2020 ± 5) as the turning point when human society transited from the petroleum age to the age of sustainability (see Grubb 2014 and Sachs 2015). This change is primarily being driven by the need to severely curtail and reduce emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere (the climate change challenge), but also because of many other harmful impacts of modern human society on the biosphere (e.g. species and habitat loss) and the hydrosphere (e.g. water quality and spread of plastic waste). Human society needs to change its behaviour into more responsible practices, and that includes how we use energy. In responding to these challenges, we can already see an acceleration in what we now call the energy transition. Deployment of renewable … ER -