At our inaugural Forum in 2017, we evaluated the impact of US elections for global climate and energy policies, transformative energy market trends in a geopolitical context, and breakthrough energy technologies. In 2018, delegates discussed the geopolitics of the energy transformation, the electrification of everything, and financing and governance mechanisms for the future energy mix. In 2019, our focuses included the future of oil, digitization of energy, and diversification within energy companies and countries. In 2020, we once again chosen three key trends shaping the global energy system: the role of oil and gas in the energy transition, financing the future of energy, and interconnections in a new era of geopolitics. Our 2021 forum will have a special focus on the post-pandemic energy system, emerging net-zero carbon goals, and the US’s energy priorities following the presidential election.

Global Energy Forum 2020

The 2020 Global Energy Forum convened energy and foreign policy leaders to discuss key trends shaping the global energy system: the role of oil and gas in the energy transition, financing the future of energy, and interconnections in a new era of geopolitics.

Global Energy Forum 2019

The 2019 Global Energy Forum, “The Geopolitics of the Energy Transition,” covered a diverse range of topics that focused on three key themes: the future of oil, digitization of energy, and diversification within energy companies and countries.

Global Energy Forum 2018

The 2018 Global Energy Forum convened an exclusive group of business and policy leaders to set the energy agenda for the year and discuss the most effective ways to strengthen energy markets, advance new technologies, and foster climate action.

Global Energy Forum 2017

Presented as the Atlantic Council’s flagship initiative on the intersection of geopolitics and global energy markets, the first annual Global Energy Forum in 2017 convened leading policy-makers and business leaders from around the world to discuss the most effective ways to strengthen energy markets, advance new technologies, and foster climate action.

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2020 Global Energy Forum