Invited Paper EN-MoM5
Making Energy Sustainable – Scientific Challenges in Determining the Pathways to the Future

Monday, October 31, 2011, 9:40 am, Room 104

The scale and cost of the energy challenge are immense. Everyone wants secure, reliable, and affordable energy, but climate change, demand growth and, increasingly, resource scarcity, are transforming the energy landscape and it will continue to evolve.

There are many possible technical pathways to a low-carbon energy future, and each presents unresolved technical challenges that will influence the time, money and global-scale asset and infrastructure deployment that will take place over the next decades. BP’s energy portfolio demonstrates many of the research challenges in this arena, and some examples from Carbon Capture and Storage and Biofuels will be discussed here specifically. Ultimately, research, technology, policies and partnerships will determine the pace of change.