COP28 in Dubai, COP29 in Azerbaidjan: How to include Oil & gas actors in the energy transition

2024-03-26T17:00:00+00:00

2024-03-26T18:30:00+00:00

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Dear HEC Transition members,We are excited to announce our first international webinar of the year, "COP28 in Dubai, COP29 in Azerbaidjan: how to include oil&gas actors in the energy transition?”, on March 26th, from 6 pm-7.30 pm (CET), on Zoom.More than 70,000 people gathered at the COP28 climate conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, last December. The number of Oil & Gas industry representatives has rocketed in the past three years. The UAE itself is among the world’s ten largest producers. Next COP29 is to be hold in November 2024 in Baku, Azerbaidjan, another host country another host country relying heavily on oil and gas. As environmental activists are expressing growing concern about COP outcomes, it also makes it clear that oil & gas actors, both states and companies, whether in the USA, Europe, and on all continents, have to take a role in transitioning away from fossil fuels. It thus opens the way to a crucial debate on how to get them around the table, while acknowledging the urge to keep the world on a below-2-degrees pathway. We have set an exceptional panel to dive into these challenges, featuring three speakers from HEC community:François Gemenne, director of the sustainability and social innovation (SASI) master, author for the IPCC and specialist of environmental geopolitics and migration governance, author of several books and research papers.Karim Megherbi (H03), Founding Executive Director of Orisun Invest and Board Member of the Global Solar Council. He has 20 years of experience in developing renewable energy projects, with special focus on emerging marketsJulien Perez (MBA22), VP Strategy & Public Policy at the OGCI (Oil and Gas Climate Initiative). He launched the OGCI as a non-for-profit organization in 2014, engaging O&G companies to accelerate their decarbonization. In 2017, it launched a 1bn$ investment fund in low carbon projects.All of them were present at COP28 and will share a few behind-the-scenes insights on the event. They will then discuss on how to include oil & gas actors in the energy transition. A Q&A session will close the webinar.We look forward to seeing you there and challenging this topic together!Inscription is mandatory. The link to the webinar will be send few days before the event to participants.---------------------------------------------------------------------------Other webinars will be held in English in the coming months. If you want to participate in the programming of these webinars, feel free to reach out to Valentine Japiot (valentine.japiot@hec.edu)! Best regards,HEC Transition club

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