Diving into long-term and short-term effective solutions can be really impactful in reducing the carbon emissions in the MENA region. Anne Marie Thodsen of The Umbrella Institute, Jeremy Crane of Yellow Door Energy, Vielham Hedberg of ekar and Cornelius Mattes of Dii Desert Energy discuss the process of transitioning into renewable energy sources, the hard challenges that come along with it and their own strategies to change the future of energy.
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HIGHLIGHTS
5:24 The major challenges that have been seen during the transformation
10:18 The big issue of the subsidies for fuel
12:55 The companies' emissions and their energy spending
15:11 The reason behind big buildings not building renewable solar panels
17:39 Educating drivers & building smart cities
21:04 Making sure both business and individuality are not endlessly using capacity
26:15 The easier way for large and little business investments to come to energy
28:03 Strategies that will change the future of the world
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QUOTES
'' We look towards altering people's purchasing behavior from traditional buying a car into understanding that a car is a depreciating asset, it's causing a lot of debt.''
''The regulatory framework that enables people to change.''
''I'm optimistic that the rest of this decade is going to be very viable for that transition because we can operate outside of regulatory constraints, and we can certainly be more cost-competitive.''
''I'm a strong believer in distributed energy''
''The economic reasons phase out a few subsidies and the other things together, they will probably prevent conventional capacities from being significant edits in the region over the next few years''.
''Choosing Dubai as a hub, because it's a fantastic place to live and to work and to build a business as opposed to it being that carbon hub''.
''Clean tech can also reduce the cost of energy, which can also attract businesses.''
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