Is There a Role for Oil and Gas in a Green Recovery?

Sep 3, 2020

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Is a green recovery within the oil and gas industry a contradiction in terms? Can these fossil fuel firms meaningfully decarbonize their businesses, while creating new jobs in a struggling economy and volatile energy market? We discuss with a panel of experts, including oil and gas giant BP, in this episode of Political Climate.

The oil and gas industry was hit hard by COVID-19, but business was already rocky ahead of the pandemic. Oil and gas companies were under mounting societal pressure to transition away from fossil fuel production and toward clean energy technologies.

Now, as countries seek to stabilize their economies and investors look for environmentally friendly growth opportunities, it’s an open question as to what role oil and gas companies will play in building new, low-carbon lines of business.

This discussion was originally recorded in late July for a live event hosted by the Atlantic Council and the Center for Houston’s Future, featuring the following speakers:

Cindy Yeilding, senior vice president at BP America
Gavin Dillingham, clean energy policy program director at Houston Advanced Research Center
Alex Dewar, senior director at the Boston Consulting Group’s Center for Energy Impact
RJ Johnston, managing director for energy, climate, and resources at the Eurasia group