Speeches 2007

Energy for the Generations

14/02/2007

Speech given by Jeroen van der Veer, Chief Executive of Royal Dutch Shell plc, at the International Petroleum Week Dinner, 14 February 2007 in London

Speech given by Jeroen van der Veer, Chief Executive of Royal Dutch Shell plc, at the International Petroleum Week Dinner, 14 February 2007 in London

Jeroen van der Veer discusses the connection between food prices and bio-fuels, and three lessons we can learn from this in our search for clean and secure energy. First, we must keep an eye on the law of unintended consequences. Second, the vision of a secure and clean energy future must be more than a rich man’s concern, and third, we need the right mix of realism and idealism. While we must push the growth of alternative energy, fossil fuels are widely expected to remain dominant for decades to come, with coal making a comeback. This makes energy efficiency in the fossil part of the global energy mix urgent.

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