Recording: Securing Supply Chains for Decarbonisation
A discussion about the critical questions facing the UK as it seeks to navigate the volatile industrial landscape of the energy transition.
Overview
The UK must navigate a new and uncertain industrial geography to support the rapid development and scaling of the supply chains required for global decarbonisation.
Decarbonisation requires a reconfiguration of global industry on a huge scale as new supply chains emerge to service demand for clean energy technologies and fuels. This process is bringing a new set of actors to the fore – minerals producers, prospective hydrogen hotspots, carbon capture hubs, and manufacturers – the foremost of which is China. The fundamental economics of these new global industries are being determined mainly by decisions made in Beijing, Washington and Brussels, where the success or failure of ‘new industries’ is increasingly prominent in geopolitical calculations. The UK must find a way to maintain economic relevance and security in this changing landscape.
Speakers
Chair:Â Dan Marks, Research Fellow for Energy Security, RUSI
- Henry Sanderson, Executive Editor, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence and Associate Fellow, RUSI
- Tone Langengen, Senior Policy Advisor, Climate and Energy Policy, Tony Blair Institute
- Dr George Dibb, Head of the Centre for Economic Justice, Institute for Public Policy Research
CHAIRED BY
Dan Marks
Research Fellow for Energy Security
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