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LAUNCH OF “ENERGY AND GEOSTRATEGY 2021”

The digital event, counted on the interventions of Antonio Brufau, President of Repsol; Iñigo Díaz de Espada, Chairman of CECME; María Victoria Zingoni, Chairman of Enerclub; and Juan Francisco Martínez, Admiral and Secretary General for Defense Policy, Ministry of Defense.

The event included a discussion on the main issues of Geopolitics in the world with the participation of Francisco José Dacoba, Brigadier General and Director of the IEEE, and Víctor Baz, Deputy Director of International Relations of Repsol.

The authors of the study and its coordinator, the former Spanish Minister of Industry, Claudio Aranzadi, analysed the topics addressed in this 2021 edition, whose structure is as follow:

  • Introduction. Claudio Aranzadi
  • Interview. Josep Borrell
  • The impact of COVID-19 on the energy transition: a global perspective. David Robinson
  • Geopolitics under the green deal: a challenge for the EU. Miguel Ángel Lasheras Merino
  • Clean Hydrogen: Building Block of a New Geopolitical Landscape. Thijs Van de Graaf
  • Energy Geopolitics in the Maghreb. The Rise and Fall of Two Energy Superpowers.The cases of Algeria and Libya. Ignacio Fuente Cobo
  • Rare earths, a key piece in the energy puzzle. Ricardo Prego Reboredo

The publication “Energy and Geostrategy 2021” is available in the Spanish version here: “Energía y Geoestrategia 2021” and in the English version here: “Energy and Geostrategy 2021“.

You can read the Program and the Press release here.

Videos of the session:

  • Full Session. Available here: video