2019 Columbia Global Energy Summit – notable afternoon highlights
- Afternoon research/solutions session: panel jumps right into climate risk: uncertainty, tail risk, etc
- Uncertainty works in both directions
- v. good discussion on science, in the age of models. (we don’t know how much we don’t know)
- journalists should be accountable re: how they represent the truth
- Energy, Climate, etc. – important AND inherently interesting problems
- …role of investors, EM, technology funding
- again, panel highlights the POV of engineers/practitioners…
- Geopolitics session: Bordoff – What does US energy activity mean for the rest of the world?
- scarcity -> abundance shift. benefits expand beyond balance sheets, S/D, etc,…structural change in how markets work
- O’Sullivan poses Q: Is the US going to be tempted to continue to use energy as a geopolitical tool (A: yes)
- O’Sullivan also touches upon energy and political decentralization. hints of connectography via Parag Khanna
- flows into/out of regions, less emphasis on single country origin (similar to agri)