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Ep 102: Alex Dewar, Sr. Manager at BCG's Center for Energy Impact

Ep 102: Alex Dewar, Sr. Manager at BCG's Center for Energy Impact

Today's guest is Alex Dewar, Senior Manager at Boston Consulting Group’s Center for Energy Impact. Alex is responsible for business development and growth of additional topic expertise within the BCG Center for Energy Impact (CEI). Prior to joining the CEI team, Alex spent seven years with BCG's energy practice. There he advised clients around the world on oil and gas, power generation and transmission and renewable energy topics. His expertise is in energy market analysis, climate change mitigation and strategy development in oil and gas, specifically. We have a great discussion in this episode about the oil and gas industry. What they knew about climate change and when, what type of accountability they should have as organizations and where they are with the clean energy transition. I enjoyed this one and I hope you do as well. Enjoy the show! You can find me on twitter @jjacobs22 or @mcjpod and email at [email protected], where I encourage you to share your feedback on episodes and suggestions for future topics or guests. Also, big thanks to Arcadia, the episode sponsor. Arcadia is a first-of-its-kind app helping residents access clean energy like wind and solar at prices LOWER than what the utility offers. I’ve had an account with Arcadia for 2.5 years now and have been really pleased. Not only is 100% of my usage matched with wind energy, but Arcadia also negotiated a lower energy rate for me, so I’m paying less for energy than I was before. Some of you might remember Arcadia from an earlier episode I did with CEO Kiran Bhatraju. If that conversation hadn’t convinced you to join Arcadia, maybe this extra incentive will -- get $25 off your first clean power bill when you set up a free account for your home or apartment at arcadia.com/myclimatejourney.

Inevitable · Jason Jacobs, Alex Dewar

May 4, 202050m 53sExplicit

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Show Notes

In today’s episode, we cover:

  • Early learnings and thoughts on COVID-19 pandemic and parallels with climate change
  • Alex’s role at BCG and his work in the energy industry
  • His work with oil and gas companies in responding to climate change
  • How oil and gas companies’ climate change strategies have evolved
  • Oil and gas companies’ attitudinal change to accepting climate change as an existential issue
  • Impact of the IPCC report on the oil and gas industry
  • How stakeholders are demanding action on climate change
  • Reconciling the fossil fuel industry’s legacy of climate denial
  • Who should be accountable for the fossil fuel industry’s contribution to the climate crisis?
  • The argument that fossil fuel companies have assets needed to address climate change
  • Why should the public trust the fossil fuel industry?
  • Carbon pricing as a policy tool
  • Applying targeted regulation to ensure best behavior by the industry
  • Shift in lobbying focus from denying the science to focusing on the socio-economic considerations
  • Impact of divestment vs. ESG investing
  • Reasons why oil and gas industry has lagged in “total shareholder return” over the past decade
  • The increasing cost of capital for the industry and reasons for it
  • BCG’s ethical policies as it relates to climate change
  • “Deep de-carbonization technologies”

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