ep. 04: Navigating Global Energy Transitions Toward Net Zero
AklysTransform Founder, Esmé Fantozzi, explains the critical importance, impacts, and processes of global energy transitions, drawing on her decades of global energy sector experience in supply chain, operational excellence, and sustainable energy transformations. She discusses the critical steps humanity must take to navigate the climate crisis and introduces us to the interactive En-ROADS tool that allows users to visualize, experimenting in real time, the variables that will ultimately determine the state of the global ecosystem for future generations.
Esmé fantozzi
Founder & Principal; AklysTransform
Esmé is an energy transition leader with 25+ years of global experience in operational excellence, supply chain and sustainable transformations. She has led global teams and transformed the way of doing business in some of the most culturally diverse, complex, and challenging ventures in the energy industry.
Whether enhancing workforce welfare in a Middle Eastern country, leading the digital transformation of a 1200+ strong business unit in the US, or heading a project to generate the emissions reduction roadmap of a global business unit, Esmé consistently takes a system-approach that maximizes value across the business ecosystem to produce sustainable, long-lasting results.
Founder and principal of AklysTransform, her own consultancy focuses on energy transition leadership and business transformation. By blending her extensive experience of the energy industry with the use of powerful climate change simulators based on the best science, she helps her clients identify sustainable business opportunities, understand and mitigate transition risks, and generate credible roadmaps to net zero emissions.
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Experience for yourself the interactive En-ROADS tool, a straight forward system dynamics model grounded in the best available science that allows users to explore the impact of roughly 30 policies (e.g. electrifying transport, pricing carbon, and improving agricultural practices) with hundreds of added factors like energy prices, temperature, air quality, and sea level rise.
Esmé’s company, AklysTransform, helps clients turn their energy transition challenges into opportunities, devise the most effective risk mitigation strategies, and accelerate their decarbonization journey.
Room for the River Programme in The Netherlands manages higher water levels in rivers by lowering the levels of flood plains, creating water buffers, relocating levees, increasing the depth of side channels, and the construction of flood bypasses.
Climate Interactive is creating, maintaining and sharing tools that drive effective and equitable climate action
MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative is supporting informed decision-making that improve lives—for everyone, everywhere
Aquaspark is developing novel solutions in aquaculture
Finsulate is an environmentally friendly antifouling solution inspired by the spines of the sea urchin
BiomimicryNL is a Dutch biomimicry non-for-profit leveraging the knowledge and genius of nature to work on future-proofing products, services, organisations and systems.
These are some of the "big numbers" that offer some context to transition potential to net zero energy. The international energy agency (IEA) has estimated we will require (check out IEA’s Clean Energy Demonstration Projects Database):
US$90 billion in clean technology demonstration projects alone by 2030 (IEA)
14 million jobs to be created by 2030 (IEA)
1020 GW of additional solar and wind required (IEA)
Investment in Renewable Energy Needs to Quadruple by 2030 (Bloomberg))
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