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LAUNCH OF “ENERGY AND GEOSTRATEGY 2018”

The event, attended by 400 professionals from energy and defence sectors, counted on the interventions of Iñigo Díaz de Espada(Chair, CECME), Miguel Ángel Ballesteros (General Director, IEEE), Miguel Antoñanzas(Vicechairman, Enerclub), Antonio Brufau (Chairman, Repsol), and the Subsecretary of Defence, Anturo Romaní.

The chapters of this fifth edition were:

  • Introduction. Claudio Aranzadi
  • Interview for the Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Cañete.
  • Challenges and opportunities of climate governance. Implementing the Paris Agreement and ratcheting up ambition. Lara Lázaro Touza
  • The Role of Energy in the Russian Federation’s Geostrategy. José Pardo de Santayana
  • Turkey: geopolitics, energy and political survival . Melike Janine Sökmen y Eduard Soler i Lecha
  • Security, Development and Energy: the three challenges facing the Sahel . Beatriz Mesa
  • India: Energy Geo-Politics . Sunjoy Joshi y Lydia Powell

These topics were debated by a panel where the authors and its moderator, Claudio Aranzadi, the ex-Minister for Industry, intervened.

The publication “Energy and Geostrategy 2018” is available in the Spanish version here: “Energía y Geoestrategia 2018” and in the English version here: “Energy and Geostrategy 2018“.

You can read the Program and the Press release here.

Videos of the session:

  • Interview for the Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy D. Miguel Arias Cañete. Available here: video.
  • Summary of the session. Available here: video.
  • Opening Session. Available here: video.
  • Authors Panel. Available here: video.
  • Final Considerations. Available here: video.