Catalyzing electrification: Building synergies across value chains | COP27

GSEP hosted a panel at COP27 to explore how stakeholders can work together to accelerate electrification and propel a zero-carbon future.

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Although electrification has been identified as a key enabler to achieve net-zero targets, its pace is still far too slow to ensure a 1.5°C trajectory. Increased synergy between stakeholders is needed to unlock new business cases and propel a zero-carbon future. Collaboration between businesses and utilities to electrify their sectors is demonstrating clear environmental, social and economic benefits for communities. However, coherent and stable policy frameworks and well-targeted regulatory mechanisms are still needed to create a level playing field and lower the initial up-front investment to stimulate the uptake of electrified solutions and enable a clean and secure energy future.

Moderator:
Daniele Agostini, Head of Energy and Climate Policies, Enel

Speakers:
Thomas Birr, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, E.ON
Kristen Siemen, Chief Sustainability Officer, General Motors
Gwenaelle Avice Huet, Chief Strategy & Sustainability Officer, Schneider Electric
Thomas Deloison, Director – Mobility, WBCSD