On Thursday, April 19, 2018, CGEP celebrated its 5th anniversary and hosted the annual Columbia Global Energy Summit. 

The half-day forum included keynote remarks, interviews and plenary conversations with senior energy sector leaders focused on key issues and questions at the intersection of energy policy, financial markets, the environment and geopolitics. 

This is a recording of a keynote conversation between: Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency, and Jason Bordoff, CGEP.

On Thursday, April 19, 2018, CGEP celebrated its 5th anniversary and hosted the annual Columbia Global Energy Summit. 

The half-day forum included keynote remarks, interviews and plenary conversations with senior energy sector leaders focused on key issues and questions at the intersection of energy policy, financial markets, the environment and geopolitics. 

This panel discussion focused on U.S. energy markets in transition.

Panelists:

• Charif Souki, Chairman of the Board, Tellurian Inc.
• Peter Kagan, Managing Director, Warburg Pincus LLC
• Scott Sheffield, Chairman of the Board, Pioneer Natural Resources
• Amy Jaffe,  David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment and director of the Energy Security and Climate Change program, Council on Foreign Relations; Chair of CGEP Women in Energy Steering Committee
• Dan Yergin, Vice Chairman, IHS-Markit

Moderator: Mona Sutphen, Partner, Macro Advisory Partners;  Former Deputy White House Chief of Staff

 

On Thursday, April 19, 2018, CGEP celebrated its 5th anniversary and hosted the annual Columbia Global Energy Summit. 

The half-day forum included keynote remarks, interviews and plenary conversations with senior energy sector leaders focused on key issues and questions at the intersection of energy policy, financial markets, the environment and geopolitics. 

This is a recording of a keynote conversation between Dan Brouillette, Deputy Secretary, US Department of Energy, and Jason Bordoff, Founding Director, CGEP. 

On Thursday, April 19, 2018, CGEP celebrated its 5th anniversary and hosted the annual Columbia Global Energy Summit. 

The half-day forum included keynote remarks, interviews and plenary conversations with senior energy sector leaders focused on key issues and questions at the intersection of energy policy, financial markets, the environment and geopolitics. 

This panel discussion focused on the global energy outlook.

Panelists:

• Fu Chengyu, Former Chairman of SINOPEC and CNOOC, Member of UN global compact board, Chairman of UNGC Network China
• Matt Harris, Founding Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners

• Avril Haines, Senior Researcher for Columbia World Projects, former US Deputy NSA and US Deputy CIA Director
• Ajay Mathur, Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute
• John McCarrick, Acting Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs, Bureau of Energy Resources, US Department of State

 Moderator: Jonathan Elkind, Sr. Research Scholar, CGEP

On Thursday, April 19, 2018, CGEP celebrated its 5th anniversary and hosted the annual Columbia Global Energy Summit. 

The half-day forum included keynote remarks, interviews and plenary conversations with senior energy sector leaders focused on key issues and questions at the intersection of energy policy, financial markets, the environment and geopolitics. 

This panel discussion focused on climate change - what's next on technology and policy?

Panelists:

• Cameron Hepburn, Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Oxford
• Jeannette Wing, Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute and Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
• George David Banks, Former Special Assistant to President Trump for International Energy and Environment
• Tom Werner, President and CEO, Sun Power
• Ruth DeFries, Denning University Professor of Sustainable Development, Columbia University

 Moderator: David Sandalow, Inaugural Fellow, CGEP

On Thursday, April 19, 2018, CGEP celebrated its 5th anniversary and hosted the annual Columbia Global Energy Summit. 

The half-day forum included keynote remarks, interviews and plenary conversations with senior energy sector leaders focused on key issues and questions at the intersection of energy policy, financial markets, the environment and geopolitics. 

This keynote conversation is with Ryan Lance, CEO, ConocoPhillips, and Dan Yergin, Vice Chairman, IHS-Markit. 

CGEP hosted a book talk with Dr. Johannes Urpelainen, the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Professor of Energy, Resources and Environment at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and CGEP Fellow, on his new book, Renewables: The Politics of a Global Energy Transition where he and co-author Michaël Aklin offer a comprehensive political analysis of the rapid growth in renewable wind and solar power.

Following Dr. Urpelainen's presentation, he joined by Shayle Kann, CGEP Non-Resident Fellow and Senior Vice President of Research and Strategy at Energy Impact Partners, and Colleen Regan, Head of U.S Utilities and Market Reform, North America at Bloomberg New Energy Finance for a discussion on renewable energy deployment more broadly including cost declines, power sector economics, carbon markets, and climate-finance. CGEP Inaugural Fellow, David Sandalow moderated the discussion.

Over the coming decades, digital technologies are set to make energy systems around the world more connected, intelligent, efficient, reliable, and sustainable. But getting everything right will not be easy. The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently completed its first ever analysis to comprehensively depict how digitalization is reshaping the energy sector and to provide more clarity for decision makers on what digitalization means for the energy sector – http://www.iea.org/digital/.

The Center on Global Energy Policy hosted a presentation and discussion with Dave Turk, IEA's Acting Director for the Sustainability, Technology and Outlooks Directorate and Head of the Energy Division, who co-led this new IEA analysis and will present the report's key findings. Following Mr. Turk's presentation, Patricia Culligan, Robert A.W. and Christine S. Carleton Professor of Civil Engineering and member of the Data Science Institute's Smart Cities Committee at Columbia University, joined him on a panel to engage in a discussion on the fascinating confluence of digital technologies and energy. CGEP Fellow and Senior Research Scholar, Jonathan Elkind moderated the conversation. 

In the wake of President Trump's announcement that he intends to have the United States leave the Paris climate accord, many American states, cities, and corporations declared: "We are still in." Beyond the rhetoric, however, how strongly committed is America's corporate sector to taking steps to reduce climate change? Can corporate actions on climate support, rather than detract from, growth in markets and profitability? How much impact are corporations feeling from the abrupt change in climate policies between the last US Administration and the current one? What kinds of climate policies are most favored by the corporate sector?

As part of our on-going speaker series "Where Next on Climate?" the Center on Global Energy Policy hosted a presentation and panel discussion on climate, energy, and development. Kevin Knobloch of Tufts University's Climate Policy Lab presented results from a soon-to-be-completed research project entitled "The Relationship between Clean Energy/Climate Policy and Expanding Corporate Markets." This project involved structured interviews with C-suite leaders in major corporations and private equity houses. After Knobloch's presentation, we had a panel discussion with:

•    Kevin Knobloch, Tufts University •    Geoffrey Heal, Columbia Business School •    Nancy Meyer, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) •    John MacWilliams, Center on Global Energy Policy

No region remains more important for the global energy scene than the Middle East, and the influence of the Gulf Arab States remains extremely high. In order to understand current trends in energy markets, and their implications for economies and geopolitical relations of the Gulf states, the Center on Global Energy Policy hosted a discussion with an outstanding panel of leading decision-makers and analysts:   • Dr. Matar Al Neyadi, Under Secretary, UAE Ministry of Energy • Dr. Adnan Shihab-Eldin, Director General, Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science • Dr. Helima Croft, Managing Director and Global Head of Commodity Strategy, RBC Capital Markets • Dr. Bernard Haykel, Professor of Near Eastern Studies & Director, Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, Princeton University • Nabil Al-Khowaiter, Senior Advisor, Saudi Ministry of Energy, Industry, and Mineral Resources