How Can Energy Transitions Balance Growth, Decarbonization, and Human Development?

As climate change intensifies, many low- and middle-income countries face a precarious balancing act between addressing urgent climate adaptation and development needs and pursuing clean energy transitions. While these two objectives can be complementary, they also create challenging choices around meeting human development imperatives and decommissioning or avoiding fossil development. This panel will unpack these choices, and present energy transition strategies that put human flourishing at the center.

Jackson Ewing (Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability, Duke University) will moderate the panel, which will include Stephanie von Friedeburg (Banking and Capital Markets Advisory), Stefano Marguccio (SEforALL), and Alix Peterson Zwane (James E. Rogers Energy Access Project, Duke University).

The event will take place on the Main Stage of the Nest Climate Campus at Climate Week NYC. The Nest Climate Campus brings together over 6,100 climate professionals implementing actionable climate solutions, to share knowledge and connect on strategies that address the urgent challenges of climate change.