With negotiations to seal the much hoped-for global climate agreement in their final leg, Friends of Europe’s 12th annual Climate and Energy Policy Summit will discuss the main challenges ahead for global leaders in view of ensuring affordable and secure energy in line with reducing CO2 emissions. Questions will include:

• What is the best way to finance the low-carbon transition?
• What technological advances in the energy sector will shake the energy landscape in the years to come?
• What will the global energy-mix look like in 2030 and where will gas, oil and coal fit in the low-carbon future?
• What reforms are needed to fix Europe’s electricity market(s)?

This summit has a long-standing reputation as the “must-attend” conference in Brussels and top-level personalities have joined this platform in previous summits as speakers. Recent years have seen the participation of Fatih Birol, Chief Economist of the International Energy Agency (IEA); Günther Oettinger, then EU Commissioner for Energy; Waldemar Pawlak, then Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy; Yvo de Boer, former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; Jerzy Buzek, MEP and then President of the European Parliament; Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); Coby Van Der Linde, Director of Clingendael International Energy Programme (CIEP); Johannes Meier, CEO of the European Climate Foundation; Gérard Mestrallet, Chief Executive Officer of GDF Suez; Auke Lont, CEO of Statnett; Steve LeVine, author of “The oil and the glory”, among others.