Duque will participate in CeraWeek, the US International Summit on Climate Change

This Sunday, boss Ivan Duque will participate in an international conference on energy issues, It will encourage investments for the sector in the country. Forum, known as Wax Weekat the Hilton America in Houston, US, from March 7-11.

This conference is held annually and organized by the information and knowledge company IHS Markit. Duque, as part of his duties as Head of State, will present the achievements made by Colombia over the past three years with regard to the energy transition.

At the meeting, the Colombian president will meet with other world figures in the fields of climate change and energy. These include the US special envoy for climate, John Kerry, and Saudi Energy Ministers Abdulaziz bin Salman, and technology Ahmed Al-Jaber. Evan Duque will also present the country’s energy transition to entrepreneurs from Goldman Sachs, Global Siemens and Exxon Mobil.

On the other hand, Wax Week It will feature prominent speakers from the sectors of energy, politics, technology and finance. The conference will be chaired by Daniel Yergin and James Rosenfeld, both vice presidents of IHS Markit. Yergin is an American writer, energy expert and economic historian, Pulitzer Prize winner and founder of the Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) energy research consultancy.

We must remember that Colombia has increased its installed capacity for power generation 25 times by the end of 2021. According to the newspaper, this process took place Republicfrom non-traditional renewable sources such as solar energy and wind energy.

According to Agencia EFE, the Minister of Mines, Diego Mesa, will make important announcements at CeraWeek, where he will explain the goals and programs that Colombia is developing in order to transform energy and promote new energies.

Doki’s Agenda in the United States

After the president attends the meeting presented by Wax Week He will discuss with other leaders on combating climate change, and will meet with Kerry next Monday.

that day Evan Duque will speak at the Meeting with Leaders of the Future of Energy, in which he will present the progress Colombia has made in the past three and a half years, About the energy transition More than 100 young leaders in the sector will meet. Later, according to an EFE report, the Colombian president will have a conversation with John Adrill, vice president of exploration at ExxonMobil, about the new deposits in Colombia.

Also, Doki will be at the opening session of the main event, in the company of Keri and other characters. And around noon he will speak in the plenary of the meeting, with Yergin, on geopolitics, the energy transition, climate, and sustainability. In the afternoon, he will participate in a discussion with twenty executives from CeraWeek’s member companies.

At the end of the day, he will have meetings with 25 business leaders from the hydrocarbon sector and with Tim Holt, Global Siemens Board Member, on decarbonization and energy transition strategy.

We must remember that The president will return to Colombia on the same Monday. However, he is scheduled to return to the United States on March 10 for a meeting in Washington with US President Joe Biden.

According to the White House statement, the meeting will discuss issues such as “the unjustified and unjustified Russian military invasion of Ukraine, and the promotion of democracy, security, and prosperity in the hemisphere.” In turn, the two countries celebrate the two-hundredth anniversary of bilateral relations.

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