2019 Columbia Global Energy Summit- afternoon

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)