Session format: Paper presentation and panel discussion

Economic headwinds and larger geostrategic trends have added further financial pressure on businesses seeking capital for lower carbon projects. With no clear methodology for demonstrating bankability, uneven risk profiles and uncertainty on regulatory compliance, a recurring roadblock on the road to net zero is restricted access to capital. In this Critical Agenda session, GET knowledge partners Fortescue, will present a series of recommendations, developed in consultation with a range of stakeholders, for overcoming these difficulties and deploying much needed energy transition funds at global scale. In a follow-up panel discussion, experts will consider these findings, as well as the unfolding impact of landmark net zero legislation.  

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• How have policy programmes such as REPowerEU, the Inflation Reduction Act and China’s 14th Five-Year Plan affected investor appetite for decarbonisation projects and technologies? 
• Are predictions of a “global race to the top” on lower carbon energy solutions overly optimistic? 
• Is traditional thinking around investment risk analysis slowing progress on the energy transition? 

Session format: Paper presentation and panel discussion

Methane is responsible for almost a third of the emissions-induced increase in global temperatures since the start of the industrial era, second only to CO2 in its impact on climate change. 

To help reduce this, the oil and gas industry must tackle its methane emissions. The sector accounts for almost a quarter of human-caused methane emissions, coming from both large–scale venting and innumerable small, undetected, or unreported leaks across the oil and gas value chain. 

In this critical agenda session, our knowledge partners, Wood Mackenzie, will present a series of recommendations, developed in consultation with a range of stakeholders, for utilising new and existing methane emissions abatement solutions. In a follow-up panel discussion, experts will consider the findings. 

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• What are the key obstacles to successful methane emissions reductions across the oil and gas industry and related value chains? 

Themes: Net zero impasses; Corporate and consumer behaviour change; Climate action beyond carbon

Session format: Paper presentation and panel discussion

The shipping sector is responsible for moving roughly 90% of globally traded goods, and 3% of worldwide CO2 equivalent emissions. Recent growth in shipping demand has led to a commensurate rise in sector-based emissions, evidence of the tension between economic growth prerogatives and climate action.  

In mid-2023, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) released a revised GHG Strategy which aims to bring the pace of decarbonisation in the shipping sector into line with the Paris Agreement. The new IMO target has shifted from a 50% reduction in maritime emissions by 2050, to net-zero by that date.  

However, this ambitious target is beset by a number of troublesome realities. The vast array of seafaring vessels currently in use, lingering uncertainty around compliance, unproven technologies, underdeveloped infrastructure and a shortage of deployable funds make for a familiar set of challenges. In many ways, the challenge of emissions reduction in the maritime industry will serve as a bellwether for other hard-to-abate sectors.   

In this Critical Agenda session, GET knowledge partners, Lansdowne Moritz, will present a series of recommendations for surmounting these obstacles and realising the IMO’s vision for lower carbon shipping.  

Then, in a follow-up panel discussion, experts will consider these findings. 

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• How is the diverse range of low-carbon alternative marine fuels, and the wider global regulatory environment, reshaping the maritime sector?