After many hours and days spent with innovators, leaders, capital allocators and everyone in between, what comes next? Presented with an earth-full of ideas and initiatives requires the quantum computing that only a human mind can process. Ironically, in a recent interview with Jay Hatfield, he mentioned that it would require quantum computing power beyond what exists to come up with the correct pathway to achieve net zero or perhaps another planet-saving metric, I might add. There were those at the Summit that had some very good taxonomies. The task ahead will require many diverse approaches; it’s not binary — green or brown, blue or amber.
I’ve stated that resource efficiency and capital efficiency were the drivers in my initiatives. In the case of Ukraine, the government is focused on energy efficiency and energy savings, alongside the imperative of energy security. This speaks to the need for country-specific pathways and knowledge-resource sharing. They are harnessing just that, within a war-torn context, driven by urgency, need and survival.
Lastly, I’ll be interviewed May 10 for a radio broadcast with a Montana global affairs council host, covering the present state of energy and its transitioning state, from my vantage point. Afterwards, I’m heading to the East Coast for an economic-oriented conference on tech disruption and the energy transition. It’s the first time this organization has included energy more specifically. This event will be the capital part of the equation to be applied to the economics of energy and sustainability. Over the last year, from several extremely intelligent, in-the-trenches people, the idea that “the market” trumps all has continued to ring true. This is a phenomenally deep and intricate concept, yet so simple. The gist of it concerns people and planet. And Mother Earth trumps.
Hats off to all who toiled to make the mammoth effort of EarthX a success this year, and Vikram Agrawal, director of EarthX Capital, and thank you…It was a great place to soft launch my natural capital practice.
