Getting to Net Zero
The Global Energy Transition Congress & Exhibition provides a premier forum for professionals working across the energy transition to develop partnerships and strategies to reach net zero.
For the first time on record, the 12-month period ending January 2024 saw the global mean temperature exceed 1.5°C above the pre-industrial average. This breach of the threshold likely comes as no surprise, following warnings from the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in December 2023 that the world is off track in meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement, and leaders pledging to transition away from fossil fuels and achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
Amid these pressing challenges, the Global Energy Transition (GET) Congress and Exhibition—to be held from July 1 to 3, 2024 in Milan, Italy—emerges as a strategic platform for action, bringing together influential figures from across industries to accelerate enduring solutions. For thought leaders, policymakers, industry magnates, and other delegates attending the conference, GET presents an opportunity to forge partnerships with peers who are equally committed to progress.
What to Expect
The GET Congress will bring together policymakers, energy executives, finance leaders, start-ups, and scientists, as well as an anticipated 16,000 attendees, for critical conversations and debate, including more than 200 exhibitors and 70 conference sessions structured around three main themes: ‘GET the Bigger Picture,’ ‘GET into the Detail,’ and ‘GET Global Ideas.’
‘GET the Bigger Picture’ serves as the strategic core, featuring keynote speeches and panel discussions involving top executives from various sectors. The goal of these sessions is to galvanize genuine action towards energy transition. ‘GET into the Detail,’ meanwhile, offers detailed blueprints for achieving net zero emissions, presenting practical strategies—from investment and technological innovation to engineering and scientific advances—for building a sustainable energy infrastructure.
‘GET Global Ideas,’ on the other hand, introduces the Project X-Change Theater, a platform showcasing pioneering projects that address a range of climate concerns. Each segment is selected to inspire replication and scaling-up efforts, such as the EU-backed project by OMV and Wood, which aims to transform plastic waste into high-quality pyrolysis oil, a synthetic fuel.
A Results-Driven Agenda
To drive tangible progress in the race to net zero, GET has prioritized key sectors and technologies in both sustainable energy solutions—where environmental and economic progress intersect—and hard-to-abate sectors, which grapple with emission reduction challenges.
GET is also collaborating with thought leaders to present the conference’s Critical Agenda Papers, which will explore key areas of concern in global climate change regulation, the decarbonization of the shipping industry, methane emission control in oil and gas, and the removal of financial hurdles to energy transition.
Sustainable Solutions & Hard-To-Abate Sectors
Project X-Change
From a global pool of 500 submissions, the Project X-Change Theater will present over 30 leading decarbonization projects that showcase wide-ranging sustainable solutions at various stages of implementation, from full delivery to early planning.
One of the theater’s most exciting initiatives is the FlagshipONE carbon capture project presented by Carbon Clean, which aims to capture up to 70,000 tons of carbon emissions per year to produce eMethanol and other commercial products. Likewise, Eni’s Agri Feedstock program demonstrates a sustainable model in Africa, linking local agriculture to biorefineries, supporting 80,000 smallholders, rehabilitating 40,000 hectares of land, and producing 7,000 tons of biomass. Holcim’s C2B, supported by the EU Innovation Fund, will outline plans to capture 1 million tons of CO2 annually, establishing a carbon-neutral cement plant with a unit to convert flue gas into industrial-grade CO2.
By uniting pioneers from diverse sectors, GET provides a crucial platform to initiate global projects and partnerships, supporting the timely journey to net zero. To gain access to all conference streams at GET, secure your Delegate Pass now.
