Making energy secure: today’s challenges for a sustainable future

This international workshop focused on the new role energy is playing in global relations, with particular attnetion to the complex relationship between Russia and the European Union as regards energy security. Participants pointed out the need, especially in the West, to diversify supply sources. They also discussed how urgent it is for the world’s political and industrial leaders to rise to the challenge of climate change, touching on issues such as Bush’s change of heart, the future of the Kyoto protocol, how to convince emerging economies to take the problem seriously, how to improve research in alternative energy resources. The “3C” document was distributed on this occasion, a document in which the greatest American and European companies join in calling for a serious consideration of the “climate change” problem.