Autumn Conference 2019

The Autumn Conference took place in Oslo on 26 November 2019.
See the video recordings of all the main presentations below.

This year’s conference focused on energy transition and what it will take to reach the Paris goals. The Autumn Conference is a joint event hosted by Equinor, the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum & Energy and the International Energy Agency (IEA).

The conference was opened by the Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Kjell-Børge Freiberg. IEA Executive Director Dr. Fatih Birol and Martin Skancke, Chair, Principles for Responsible Investment joined as keynote speakers together with Eldar Sætre, President & CEO, Equinor. Dr. Carolyn Woo, the President’s Fellow for Global Development at Purdue University, USA, participated in a dialogue with the moderator and attended the panel dialogue together with the keynote speakers.

Video recordings of the presentations:

Reidar Gjærum

Kjell-Børge Freiberg

Dr. Fatih Birol

Eldar Sætre

Martin Skancke

World Energy Outlook 2019—about the IEA

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Programme 2019

Autumn Conference 2019: Det Norske Teatret, Oslo. 9:00am to 12:15pm CET.


08:00	Registration and coffee
09:00	Welcome Reidar Gjærum, Senior Vice President Communication, Equinor Opening address Kjell-Børge Freiberg, Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy ‘World Energy Outlook 2019’ Dr. Fatih Birol, Executive Director, IEA
10:30	Break
11:00	Key note - The energy transition Eldar Sætre, President and CEO, Equinor Keynote - Finance and capital flows in the energy transition Martin Skancke, Chair, Principles for Responsible Investment In dialogue with Mishal Husain - A just transition Dr. Carolyn Woo, the President's Fellow for Global Development at Purdue University, U.SA. Panel session Dr. Woo, Dr. Birol, Mr. Skancke and Mr. Sætre
12:15	End of conference and buffet lunch

Downloads

Download the speech from Eldar Sætre PDF 202 KB

World Energy Outlook 2019 - by Dr. Fatih Birol PDF 332 KB

The speakers

IEA Executive Director Dr. Fatih Birol will present the World Energy Outlook 2019. We are pleased to announce that Chair, Principles for Responsible Investment Martin Skancke and Dr. Carolyn Woo, the President’s Fellow for Global Development at Purdue University, U.S.A., will join the conference together with the Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy Kjell-Børge Freiberg and Equinor President and CEO Eldar Sætre.