The seventh annual Global Energy Forum, organized by the Atlantic Council, has launched in Abu Dhabi as part of the activities of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW).
The Atlantic Council Global Energy Forum convenes the world’s top energy and foreign policy decision-makers annually to set the global energy agenda for the year ahead and examine the longer-term geopolitical and geo-economic implications of the changing energy system.
The Forum is convened in partnership with the UAE Ministry of Energy & Infrastructure, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), Mubadala Investment Company, TAQA, and Emirates Nuclear Energy Company (ENEC), with CNBC as an international media partner.
According to the statement, this year’s Forum is of particular importance as critical climate and energy strategy issues take center stage in the run-up to the United Nation’s Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28), which the UAE will also host before the year’s end.
The 2023 forum focuses on the challenge of managing energy security priorities and decarbonization efforts in tandem, according to the statement.
Over the past six years, the Forum has become the go-to conference on the geopolitics of the energy transition, where industry and foreign policy leaders set the energy agenda for the year ahead and examine the geopolitical and geo-economic implications of the changing energy system.
“The 2023 Forum will enable world leaders to be at the front end of empowering an inclusive energy transition at a moment where the nexus of energy security and climate action has come into acute focus,” as per the statement.
