US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate JOHN KERRY

“One of the principal things we need to do is focus in on where you get the best decarbonization. Methane is 80 times more damaging than CO2 in the early life, for about a 20year period. Methane is actually the simplest, easiest, fastest, and cheapest way to start getting reductions. Methane is responsible for half of the warming of the planet today.”

“If we have passed tipping points in the Arctic and the Antarctic, and particularly the Greenland Ice Sheet, you’re looking at the reality of two meters of sea level rise by the end of the century.”

Natasa Piliddes

“I firmly believe that governments are not investors…. that’s not what they do in a free market. But they can facilitate the right type of investment and in doing so, that’s where we get to where we want to be.”

East Mediterranean Gas Forum’s Secretary General OSAMA MOBAREZ

“The East Mediterranean Gas Forum supports governments’ decarbonization initiatives through the forum’s five roles, which include policy harmonization between governments, carbon certification for carbon development and management, offering financial advice, gathering information, and offering technical advice.”

Uganda’s Minister of Energy and Mineral Development RUTH NANKABIRWA SSENTAMU

“Reliability and sustainability is very key in the new technologies that we are bringing on boards, so research has to be done and nonpartisan research has to be done so that we are comfortable.”

UNIDO Director General GERD MULLER

“Industrialized countries must take responsibility, even for loss and damage costs of climate change. And that means they must start the investment offences.”

CEO at OGCI Climate Investments DR PRATIMA RANGARAJAN

“As we think about accelerating decarbonization, we need to think about the process and how we accelerate the adoption of new technologies.”

COO of Technip Energies MARCO VILLA

“We want to be a player in the energy transition. And we started to invest a lot in this investment. And now we are seeing that all those investments start to completely materialize.”

Chief Executive Officer, Siemens Energy CHRISTIAN BRUCH

“We also provide this diverse set of solutions, the short-term steps which are not enough, but required, and the long-term aspirations with the future solutions going forward, the storage seeking solutions, the volatility solutions, everything we need to move forward to make the energy transition happen. And it certainly is complex, and we will need both things.”