Discover the content of the session: "Energy Transition and Economic Sovereignty - Major Issues of Tomorrow for the Shipping Sector and its Banks"

• Description of the current carbon footprint of maritime transport
• State of play of regulations aiming at reducing the sector's carbon emissions (IMO, ETS, etc)
• Challenges and opportunities of decarbonisation (fuels, infrastructure, renewal of the merchant fleet)
• What role for shipping banks in supporting the decarbonisation of the sector?
• Maritime transport, a key element of the economic sovereignty (and energy security) of nations
• State of play of the fleet & renewal needs to ensure tomorrow's energy security
• Is energy security compatible with the decarbonisation objectives of the maritime sector?
• What role for blue finance players in this equation?

Organised by CACIB: Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (France) and Crédit Mutuel Arkea 

 

3.15pm-5.45pm

Part1: Energy transition and economic sovereignty

Thibaud Escoffier⁽¹⁴⁸⁾ and Michel-Pierre Flipo⁽¹⁴⁸⁾

⁽¹⁴⁸⁾ Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (CACIB)

Part 2: Testimony of a shipping company

 Marc Etcheberry⁽²⁵⁰⁾

⁽²⁵⁰⁾ DG Geogas Maritime, France

• Presentation of the Geogas group and France LNG
• The essential role of gas in the energy transition
• Importance of maritime gas transport (LPG as well as LNG) in the new geostrategic balance that is the new geostrategic balance that is taking shape
• Growing role of the French maritime cluster (and the Geogas group and its Japanese partner NYK) in the strategic sector of maritime gas transport in the strategic sector of maritime gas transport

Part 3: Regional implications of the energy transition in the maritime sector

Vincent Picarello Morgan Carval^(127)
(127) We positive Invest, Arkea Capital, France

• Financing the development of regional infrastructure to support the energy transition
• Financing local actors