ESADE Alumni invites you to this Lecture Series on new key areas in the economy. The secondsession is devoted to Energy and Environment. In the first session we analyzed the Health Area.
Rafael Sardá (MBA 89), a scientist at the CSI, is in charge of Environment courses at ESADE and partners ESADE-CSIC research into sustainable development.
An essential aspect for the economy’s future is meeting the challenge of setting up an energy system that can produce more energy while significantly cutting down on CO2 emissions. From 20:80 (a 20% cut in CO2 emissions from the 1990 figure) for 2020, an agreement we hope will be signed in Copenhagen in December, we need to move to 80:20
(an 80% cut) by 2050, always assuming that the process does not speed up due to the unexpected appearance of severe environmental problems.
There are a number of obvious trends in energy markets today: a) deregulation of gas and electricity; b) greater environmental awareness and its translation into climate change policies; and c) high growth in demand, above all in emerging economies. That means businesses face a major challenge in giving a quick and effective response to these new requirements, seeing them as enormous opportunities and innovating in technology and services to become more eco-efficient and also more eco-effective. High growth in the renewable energy sector, the increase in efficiency, the rising gas market, new distribution systems as monopolies are broken up, the new carbon emissions
markets, carbon capture and storage, natural sinks, etc. are just some of the areas with big possibilities.
But it is not only the energy sector; other industrial and services sectors to a greater or lesser extent will have to face up to the responsibilities of an excessive carbon footprint. How can you ask an industrial sector to cut emissions by 20% while other unregulated sectors are increasing them by 80%? Regulation will become increasingly strict and adapting to change and anticipating needs will become a requirement for increasing the value of companies. In this area the priority is to move together as soon as possible towards low carbon intensity energy and realise this is crucial for the future.
Programme:
Host: Miguel Trías (MBA 89), member of the Executive Board of ESADE Alumni and Director of Cuatrecasas Barcelona
Speakers: Antonio Llardén, president of the Enagas
Ramon Roca, president of the Ros Roca Group
José Luis Porté (MBA 83), president of Meroil and president of the ESADE Alumni Energy and Environment Club
Moderator: Rafael Sardà (MBA 89), Professor, Department of Operations Management and Innovation at ESADE
ESADE Alumni invites you to this Lecture Series on new key areas in the economy. The secondsession is devoted to Energy and Environment. In the first session we analyzed the Health Area.
Rafael Sardá (MBA 89), a scientist at the CSI, is in charge of Environment courses at ESADE and partners ESADE-CSIC research into sustainable development.
An essential aspect for the economy’s future is meeting the challenge of setting up an energy system that can produce more energy while significantly cutting down on CO2 emissions. From 20:80 (a 20% cut in CO2 emissions from the 1990 figure) for 2020, an agreement we hope will be signed in Copenhagen in December, we need to move to 80:20
(an 80% cut) by 2050, always assuming that the process does not speed up due to the unexpected appearance of severe environmental problems.
There are a number of obvious trends in energy markets today: a) deregulation of gas and electricity; b) greater environmental awareness and its translation into climate change policies; and c) high growth in demand, above all in emerging economies. That means businesses face a major challenge in giving a quick and effective response to these new requirements, seeing them as enormous opportunities and innovating in technology and services to become more eco-efficient and also more eco-effective. High growth in the renewable energy sector, the increase in efficiency, the rising gas market, new distribution systems as monopolies are broken up, the new carbon emissions
markets, carbon capture and storage, natural sinks, etc. are just some of the areas with big possibilities.
But it is not only the energy sector; other industrial and services sectors to a greater or lesser extent will have to face up to the responsibilities of an excessive carbon footprint. How can you ask an industrial sector to cut emissions by 20% while other unregulated sectors are increasing them by 80%? Regulation will become increasingly strict and adapting to change and anticipating needs will become a requirement for increasing the value of companies. In this area the priority is to move together as soon as possible towards low carbon intensity energy and realise this is crucial for the future.
Programme:
Host: Miguel Trías (MBA 89), member of the Executive Board of ESADE Alumni and Director of Cuatrecasas Barcelona
Speakers: Antonio Llardén, president of the Enagas
Ramon Roca, president of the Ros Roca Group
José Luis Porté (MBA 83), president of Meroil and president of the ESADE Alumni Energy and Environment Club
Moderator: Rafael Sardà (MBA 89), Professor, Department of Operations Management and Innovation at ESADE
