Energy: Daniel Yergin on Energy, Climate, and Geopolitics
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
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🗓️ 17 September 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week’s guest is Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer prize winning author and renowned expert in energy, international relations, and economics. We discuss his latest book is The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (available now). Topics include: the growing conflict between the U.S. and China, how U.S. shale has impacted international relations, what the coming energy transition might look like, technologies that will impact the future of energy, how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted energy markets, and more. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation.
Stocks Mentioned: TSLA, BP
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus. The Podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Seyphle. I'm Dylan Lewis. And today |
| 0:16.0 | we're talking financials. Today we're talking consumer goods. |
| 0:19.1 | Wild-C-C-C-Chert Wednesday. And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech. Let's dive in. |
| 0:27.4 | Welcome industry focus. I'm Nick Saipel. My very special guest today is Daniel |
| 0:31.2 | Yergen once described by the New York Times as America's most |
| 0:34.1 | influential energy pundit. Mr. Yergen is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and a respected authority |
| 0:38.6 | on energy, international politics, and economics. He's vice chairman of IHS market, one of the most one of the |
| 0:44.4 | leading information research platforms in the world. He's also a member of the |
| 0:47.7 | Council on Foreign Relations, a senior trustee of the Brookings Institution and has |
| 0:51.0 | served on the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board under the last four |
| 0:54.4 | presidential administrations. His latest book is The New Map, Energy, Climate, and the |
| 0:58.6 | Class of Nations. Daniel Yurgan, thank you so much for joining us on Industry Focus. |
| 1:02.3 | Thank you. So for joining us on industry focus. Thank you. |
| 1:03.4 | So before we dive into the book itself, I just want to ask about the title. |
| 1:07.3 | I really enjoyed reading your book. |
| 1:09.7 | The title of the book is The New Map. |
| 1:11.2 | What do you mean by that phrase, the new map? |
| 1:13.4 | What I meant is this new map of energy and geopolitics |
| 1:16.8 | that have come together that we've gone through a series of disruptions |
| 1:20.6 | geopolitically, energy, and of course, COVID, and kind of what the new world looks like and to provide a guide through that. |
| 1:26.7 | So there are maps in the book, but it's basically the concept of the maps is also metaphorical about really a framework for thinking about how this new world works and looks. |
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