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Goldman Sachs Exchanges

The Path to Net Zero: Managing the Transition

Goldman Sachs Exchanges

Goldman Sachs

Business

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Rising concerns over climate change are spurring investments into clean energy to help bring the world closer to net zero. But where are we in that transition? And how is that path to decarbonization affecting investments in traditional oil and gas projects? In the latest episode of Exchanges at Goldman Sachs, Michele Della Vigna, head of natural resources research for Goldman Sachs in EMEA, explains the impact of higher fossil fuel prices on the low-carbon transition and the investment that is required to get to net zero.

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0:00.0

Rising concerns over climate change are spurring investments into clean energy to help bring the world closer to net zero.

0:07.5

But where are we in that transition?

0:09.5

And how is that path to decarbonization affecting investments in traditional oil and gas projects?

0:16.1

We are at the beginning of a very long path, but at the start of that, we need to unlock

0:21.7

investment and more specifically we think we need to unlock investment and more specifically we think we need to unlock an

0:25.3

extra one trillion dollars per annum of investment in energy over the next five years.

0:31.5

I'm Allison Nathan and this is exchanges at Goldman Sachs.

0:34.8

To help break down the economic path to net zero, I'm here with my

0:46.9

colleague Michaela Delavina who is head of natural resources research for

0:50.8

Goldman Sachs and E. Miea.

0:52.1

McKellie leads our research on what he's called carbonomics, which examines the economics of getting to a net-zero-carbon world.

0:59.0

McKally, welcome back to the program.

1:01.0

Thank you, Allison, always a pleasure. So let's start with the macro

1:04.2

backdrop. Europe is facing an affordability crisis as the continent struggles to

1:09.2

secure energy supply. That largely owes to Russia's invasion of Ukraine that disrupted energy flows to the

1:15.2

continent, but that supply shock also raised questions about energy sustainability and

1:20.7

the trade-offs needed to get to net zero.

1:23.0

So first give us the background on how we got here.

1:26.8

So, Allison, I think you're right.

1:29.3

Everything comes from the Russian-Ukraine invasion, but in many ways this has just been a catalyst which exposes

1:36.5

weaknesses of the energy system which have been built up over the last 15 years and specifically I think there's three problems here that we need to address.

1:47.6

The first one is diversification of supply. Europe has been relying on Russian gas for 30, 40% of its gas and the main reason is that

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