EVENTS:   Trumpire and Cold War II - Niall Ferguson/Greenmantle - 18 Sep 25   East Asia: Will consumption ever rise? Will exchange rates ever appreciate? - Paul Cavey/East Asia Econ - 23 Sep 25     ROADSHOWS: Global ESG and Impact-Investment Trends with Contrarian Trades in the Energy Transition Space - François Boutin-Dufresne & Félix-A. Boudreault /Sustainable Market Strategies   •   New York • 20 - 24 Oct London   22 - 24 Sep 25       US Healthcare & Merger Arbitrage Catalysts - Tommy Barletta /Aldis Institutional Services   •   London   22 - 23 Sep 25       East Asia Macro Outlook: China, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea - Paul Cavey /East Asia Econ   •   London   23 - 24 Sep 25       L/S Defense Europe’s Military Spending U.S. Strategy and Geopolitical Risks - Col. Jeffrey McCausland /Hedgeye   •   London   24 - 25 Sep 25       Buyside to Buyside Forum and Expert Calls across TMT, Consumer, Healthcare and Fintech - Andrew Peters /Revelare Partners   •   London   25 - 26 Sep 25      

Mega-Thematics - Climate, China, Digitization, and Demographics

View from the Peak

Wed 23 Mar 2022 - 14:00

Topics

Decarbonisation is the biggest investment narrative of our lifetime

The most significant change to the global economy versus the previous decade is that companies across the world must pay for carbon

Companies can not make net-zero pledges and then not make progress

Decarbonising supply chains is expensive and in many cases impossible because the technology doesn't exist

The price of carbon could rise 10X in the next decade due to a shortage of carbon offsets

Commodity shortages and an overreliance on the Chinese supply chain will slow the adoption of EV. It's about supply, not demand

Energy volatility will be omnipresent as peak fossil fuel demand is not being reached until the 2040s. Higher energy prices will test the resolve of green consumers with demographic differences playing an enormous role in the rates of adoption.