Panel conversation – Building competitiveness – sustainability
Coupling energy transition and energy security in a time of global turmoil
Energy transition is the process through which we will shift the global energy supply from fossil to zero-carbon energy sources. Such a process will require investment and the deployment of new technologies, business models, policy, and regulatory frameworks – to be feasible and sustainable, such investments will require sound economic rationality. New global risks and sharp increases in energy prices have added complexity to that equation, in such a way that energy transition today needs to be fundamentally coupled with energy security – the affordable and reliable supply of energy. In this session, panelists will discuss how the world can address energy challenges and opportunities.
Olin Wethington, Chairman, Wethington International LLC, USA
Megan Clifford, Associate Laboratory Director, Argonne National Laboratory
Derek Campbell, Executive Chairman, Africa Metals Group
Athanassios Savvakis, Chairman of the BoD & acting CEO, EnexGroup
Moderator: Miguel Athayde Marques, Vice-Chair of the Board, GALP Oil & Gas; Vice-Rector, Catholic University of Portugal, Portugal
Discussion questions:
- What types of investments are needed to couple energy security and transition?
- What types of policy frameworks and partnerships are needed to materialize that?
- What lessons have we learned that should inform future investments?