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The word ‘transition’ was surreptitiously added below the ‘be part of the energy’ slogans on signs welcoming drivers to Calgary in June 2020. The focus of much of this year’s CERAWeek conference has been on the energy transition. (Twitter) If there was one indication how dramatically the energy landscape has changed in the last two years, it was the opening session at the annual CERAWeek conference hosted by IHS Markit this week. It featured a conversation between Pulitzer-prize winning author and IHS vice-chairman Dan Yergin and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, each with newly published books. Yergin’s The New Map was published in December, and Gates’s book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster , was released last month. In conferences past, CERAWeek would have started with a presentation by the International Energy Agency’s Fatih Birol on energy market fundamentals, followed by a session featuring Yergin in conversation with the chief executive officer of a major energy company. This year, conference attendees — online this year, after the event was cancelled in 2020 — were treated to a very frank discussion about energy, climate change and the role technology and innovation will play as the world looks to transform existing energy […]
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