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LONDON, April 29, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

World-class congress to take place virtually from June 15-16.

Congress will bring together a broad spectrum of stakeholders to map out a bold

new approach to how energy is produced, distributed, and consumed.

dmg events announced the launch of the Citizens Energy Congress, a unique

energy industry event committed to resetting the energy agenda, post COVID-19,

to drive the transition to a low carbon energy system that balances affordable

energy access and climate change commitments.

The Citizens Energy Congress will be a virtual event taking place from June

15-16. It will connect the fragmented, divergent, and polarising perspectives

around energy and accelerate the industry's response to growing pressure for a

bold new approach to how energy is produced, distributed, and consumed.

The Citizens Energy Congress will bring together a broad spectrum of energy

industry professionals, policy makers, investors, and civil society to

challenge the concepts and constraints of the existing energy models and to

foster consensus-driven foundations for a low carbon energy system.

The Congress will seek to build on the growing momentum around the need to

tackle global warming, reinvigorated by the virtual summit hosted by US

President Joe Biden this month. At the two-day summit, attended by 40 world

leaders, the world's leading economies either reaffirmed pledges, or committed

to new targets, to reduce carbon emissions to address climate change. The

Citizens Energy Congress will look beyond these pledges and examine how these

ambitions can be met.  

The Citizens Energy Congress will address the challenging questions at the

heart of the energy transition, recognising the multifaceted nature of the

energy system. Attracting global ministers, CEOs and influencers from across

the energy ecosystem, the speaker line-up will provide diverse opinions and

ensure vigorous debate to help shape future strategic direction.

A selection of confirmed speakers include Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of

the Center for Sustainable Development and President of the Sustainable

Development Solutions Network, according to The New York Times "probably the

most important economist in the world"; Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Former Danish

Prime Minister and Former CEO of Save the Children, named by Forbes magazine in

2017 as one of the world's greatest leaders; Peggy Liu, Chairperson, Joint

US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy (JUCCCE), one of the leading catalysts

of a green China; Lorenzo Simonelli, Chairman & CEO, Baker Hughes and Mark

Campanale, Founder and Executive Chair, Carbon Tracker.

Supporting organisations include OGCI, the Oil & Gas Climate Initiative, a

CEO-led directive that aims to accelerate the industry response to climate

change, and Boston Consulting Group, one of the world's leading management

consulting firms and the official Strategic Insights Partner for the Citizens

Energy Congress.

Bob Dudley, Chair of OGCI and former Group CEO of bp said: "Solving the climate

challenge will require new ideas, new technologies, new investments, and new

government policies, all executed at scale and at speed. Commitment and

collaboration across industry, finance, research, government and society are

critical."

Alan Thomson, Managing Director and Senior Partner at BCG as well as global

leader of BCG's Energy practice said: "Private and public-sector organisations

must collaborate more consistently, in order to develop and scale

technologically and economically impactful solutions to be able to tackle

global climate change challenges efficiently."

Christopher Hudson, President of Global Energy, dmg events, said: "The Citizens

Energy Congress will provide a uniquely balanced and inclusive debate between a

broad audience of stakeholders across the energy value chain.  Recognising we

are all interconnected, our goal is to enhance understanding, not enforce

agreement. Our intent is to deliver a world-class forum for a broad-based

examination of the competing perspectives on how to achieve a sustainable

energy future through strategy, collaboration and innovation."

https://www.citizensenergycongress.com/press-release/

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