Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates

تحت رعاية صاحب السمو الشيخ محمد بن زايد آل نهيان، رئيس دولة الامارات العربية المتحدة

Supported by

Dr. Morgan Bazilian

Director of the Payne Institute and Professor of Public Policy, Division of Economics and Business

Colorado School of Mines

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Morgan D. Bazilian is the Director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy and Professor at the Colorado School of Mines. Previously, he was Lead Energy Specialist at the World Bank. Earlier in his career, Bazilian was a senior diplomat at the United Nations, and was the EU’s lead negotiator on technology at the UN climate negotiations. He is one of the world’s foremost experts on energy and minerals security, policy, markets, and investment. Dr. Bazilian holds a Ph.D in thermodynamics, and was a Fulbright fellow. He has published more than 200 scholarly articles, and has been published in Science, Nature, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, an Energy Security advisor to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, an adjunct professor of thermal physics at University College Cork, and a member of Ireland’s Climate Change Council.

Session Overview
Tuesday, 5 November
14:30
Finance & Investment Conference Conference Room A 14:30 - 15:30
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What is the future of climate finance?

As the energy transition transforms the global economy, the energy and finance sectors have a crucial role in providing the technical capabilities and capital flows needed to achieve the low carbon high growth economy of tomorrow. While public-private collaborations are accelerating the accessibility and mobilisation of investment into key climate technologies, a lack of supporting infrastructure, issues achieving industrial scalability, high initial capital investment and longer ROI windows are slowing progress. With energy transition investments needing to increase from US$1.8 trillion in 2023 to US$4.5 trillion a year to meet targets, per the IEA, how can the energy, finance, and policy makers shape the pathway to net-zero?

Attendee insights:

Evaluate the state of the energy transition and explore how industry leaders are navigating and mobilising the capital flows and investment needed to achieve a successful transition at the pace and scale society expects.

11:30
Strategic Conference Conference Room B 11:30 - 12:15
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Partnerships to advance the decarbonisation of heavy emitting sectors

According to the World Economic Forum, heavy industry accounts for one-third of global energy use and one-quarter of global GHG emissions. Steel, cement and chemicals are the three highest emitters and amongst the most difficult to decarbonise, due to both technical and economic factors.  Close collaboration among producers, technology providers and users can open new decarbonisation solutions and potentially enable cost savings that are challenging to achieve. Favourable government policies also have a role to play in unlocking viable path to decarbonisation solutions.

In this Action Session, we will examine what can be done to decarbonise heavy emitting sectors including collaboration opportunities and favourable industry policies.

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