The Energy Transition: Not if, but When | Susan Hunt Stevens

Key Takeaways/Calls to Action:

• For Individuals: Actively experiment in your career to find genuine fulfillment. Consciously manage your "personal overhead" to maximize your agility and options. Consider how your time, talent, and resources can be directed toward solving pressing global challenges.
• For Innovators & Entrepreneurs: Beyond celebrating disruption, take full accountability for the "second-order effects" and broader societal impacts of your innovations.
• For Society & Policy Leaders: Proactively implement "hospice care" strategies to support individuals and communities affected by systemic transitions. Structure incentives and "bounties" to accelerate vital innovations, outcompeting entrenched, inferior old systems. Critically, understand that the energy transition is an inevitable "when," and global leadership will fall to those who embrace and invest in this future now.

Suggested Resources

• CIBO Technologies – Scaling regenerative incentives
• XPRIZE (for Carbon Removal) – Innovation through competition
• Spark Global – Climate innovation with a systems lens