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Successfully managing climate change will require a broad policy focus that encourages the adoption and implementation of all viable net-zero pathways. Solutions that focus on the elimination of hydrocarbon fuels, rather than on managing green-house gas emissions, could have enormous unintended economic, security, and social justice consequences. Three GCC nations, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, have joined with the US, Canada, and Norway to form the Net-Zero Producers Forum. Their aim is to provide a platform to advance a set of pragmatic and effective solutions to global climate challenges by fostering international cooperation among major hydrocarbon producers and help achieve the necessary reduction in emissions in a sustainable manner. The objectives of the forum include support for the development of net-zero strategies, promoting and implementing best practices, advancing carbon management technologies, and fostering cooperation on abatement of methane and fossil fuel combustion emissions. Transparent measurement and benchmarking tools will play an important role in carbon management and are critical to ensuing that technology and policy solutions are working as intended.
Speaker: Adam Sieminski serves as Senior Advisor to the Board of the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies & Research Center (KAPSARC). He had a major role in advancing KAPCARC’s work in international energy and environment research during 2018 to 2022 when he served as the President of KAPSARC.
From June 2012 to January 2017, Mr. Sieminski served as Administrator of the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). While awaiting U.S. Senate confirmation for the EIA appointment, he was the Senior Director for Energy and Environment on the international economics staff of the U.S. National Security Council at the White House.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Sieminski was Deutsche Bank’s chief energy economist, as well as the senior energy analyst for NatWest Securities. In 2006, he was appointed to the National Petroleum Council (NPC), where he helped co-author NPC’s global oil and gas study. In addition to his affiliation with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, he was also an advisory board member of the Global Energy and Environment Initiative at Johns Hopkins University/SAIS. He had also served as chairman of the Supply-Demand Committee of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, and as an advisory member of the Strategic Energy Task Force of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a member of the Washington, DC, investment professional society, and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. He received both an undergraduate degree in civil engineering and a master’s degree in public administration from Cornell University.
Moderator: Hossein Razavi, 1818 Society Energy TG
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