Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates
تحت رعاية صاحب السمو الشيخ محمد بن زايد آل نهيان، رئيس دولة الامارات العربية المتحدة
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Director - Energy Security and Climate Initiative, Fellow - Foreign Policy
The Brookings Institution
Samantha Gross is the Director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative and a Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Her work is focused on the intersection of energy, environment, and policy, including climate policy and international cooperation, the transition to a net-zero emissions energy system, energy geopolitics, and global energy markets. Ms. Gross has more than 25 years of experience in energy and environmental affairs. In 2021 she was a Brookings Robert Bosch Foundation Transatlantic Fellow in Berlin. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, where she authored work on clean energy cooperation and on post-Paris climate policy. She was Director of the Office of International Climate and Clean Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. In that role she directed U.S. activities under the Clean Energy Ministerial, including the secretariat and initiatives focusing on clean energy implementation and access and energy efficiency. Prior to her time at the Department of Energy, Ms. Gross was Director of Integrated Research at IHS CERA. She managed the IHS CERA Climate Change and Clean Energy forum and the IHS relationship with the World Economic Forum. She has also worked at the Government Accountability Office on the Natural Resources and Environment team and as an engineer directing environmental assessment and remediation projects. Ms. Gross appears frequently in the media in the United States and abroad on topics of energy markets, energy security, and the green energy transition. Ms. Gross holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois, a MS in Environmental Engineering from Stanford, and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley.
According to the World Economic Forum, heavy industry accounts for one-third of global energy use and one-quarter of global GHG emissions. Steel, cement and chemicals are the three highest emitters and amongst the most difficult to decarbonise, due to both technical and economic factors. Close collaboration among producers, technology providers and users can open new decarbonisation solutions and potentially enable cost savings that are challenging to achieve. Favourable government policies also have a role to play in unlocking viable path to decarbonisation solutions.
In this Action Session, we will examine what can be done to decarbonise heavy emitting sectors including collaboration opportunities and favourable industry policies.
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