An event hosted by the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, at Imperial College London, and financial think tank Carbon Tracker Initiative, to discuss findings of a report produced by the two organisations. Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and convener of Mission 2020, opened the event, and was joined by leaders in research, business and industry to discuss the transition to a low carbon economy and the disruptive power of new technologies on the global energy system. Ms Figueres was joined by the co-author of the Expect the Unexpected report, Ajay Gambhir, Senior Climate Change Mitigation Policy Research Fellow at the Grantham Institute, and industry experts Gareth Burns, Head of New Energy Ventures at Statoil, Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times and Tassos Vlassopoulos, Chief Marketing Officer at GE Oil & Gas.
