Joint event by the Grantham Institute, and Energy Futures Lab presenting the findings of the International Energy Agency’s Energy Technology Perspectives 2016 (ETP 2016) – Towards Sustainable Urban Energy Systems.
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About the IEA Energy Technology Perspectives
Cities drive economic growth but can also drive sustainable change. As the share of the world’s population living in cities rises, ambitious action in urban areas can be instrumental in achieving long‑term sustainability of the global energy system – including the carbon emission reductions required to meet the climate goals reached at COP21 in Paris. Support from national governments is a strategic prerequisite for leveraging the potential for sustainable energy technology and policy in cities that too often lies untapped.
With global energy demand set to become even greater over the coming decades, Energy Technology Perspectives 2016 (ETP 2016) looks at the technology and policy opportunities available for accelerating the transition to sustainable urban energy systems. Such potential could be the key to successfully driving an energy transition that many still think impossible, provided that local and national actions can be aligned to meet the sustainability objectives at both levels. Indeed, policies still have a long way to go in this regard: ETP 2016 presents the annual IEA Tracking Clean Energy Progress report, which finds once again that despite some notable progress, the rate of needed improvements is far slower than required to meet energy sector sustainability goals.
By setting out sustainable energy transition pathways that incorporate detailed and transparent quantitative analysis alongside well-rounded commentary, ETP 2016 and its series of related publications have become required reading not only for experts in the energy field, policy makers and heads of governments, but also for business leaders and investors.
About the speaker
Kamel Ben Naceur is the IEA Director for Sustainability, Technology and Outlooks, overseeing the Energy and Environment, Energy Technology Policy and Energy Supply and Demand Outlook divisions. His Directorate oversees the production of the World Energy Outlook and the Energy Technology Perspectives.
Mr Ben Naceur has more than 34 years of experience and knowledge in the energy and industry sectors around the world in both public and private service.
After joining the research and development division of the energy multinational Schlumberger, he took charge of developing several key technologies in the upstream sector. He then moved to management roles in Africa, North and South America, Europe, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East and North Africa regions in the oil and gas sectors. In 2004, he started the Oilfield Services Business Unit developing carbon capture and storage (CCS) prospects, working extensively with regulators and policy makers.
In 2006, he was seconded from Schlumberger to the IEA Energy Technology Perspectives Division, where he helped write publications on policies including industrial energy efficiency and ETP. In 2007, also on secondment, he joined the IEA World Energy Outlook (WEO) team, where he was a co-author of a book on CCS and participated in two editions of the annual WEO.
In 2009, he became the Chief Economist at Schlumberger in Paris, responsible for the strategic outlook for the world’s largest oil and gas services company. In 2011, he became the President of the Schlumberger technology organisation in Rio de Janeiro, handling the development of technology and solutions for the offshore sectors (especially deepwater/pre-salt exploration) as well as South America-specific issues.
In 2014, he became Tunisia’s Minister for Industry, Energy and Mines in a government tasked to lead the country’s first fully democratic elections and to restore the country’s economic fundamentals. During his tenure, he implemented new policies to rationalise energy subsidies, as well as winning approval of a law to implement renewable energy. At the end of his government tenure, he returned to Schlumberger as Senior Advisor and Vice President for technology, based in Paris.
A French-Tunisian dual national, Mr Ben Naceur has served on several boards of international businesses and organizations, and has received several medals and recognitions. He is the co-author of 13 books and more than 120 articles.