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Energy Strategy for the Road Ahead


A Group of senior corporate executives from a variety of manufacturing and commercial companies worked with Global Business Network (GBN) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program to evaluate how the world energy scene might impact their businesses through 2020.  The group framed and created four plausible "roads" ahead, each posing a specific challenge to corporate leaders.

  1. "The Same Road" where the world continues much in the same direction it appears to be going now in regard to energy and environmental concerns around climate change
  2. "The Long Road" where the world undergoes a significant shift in economic, geopolitical and energy centers of gravity
  3. "The Broken Road" where the world continues much in the direction of today, but is then hit by a severe event that overturns established systems and rules
  4. "The Fast Road" where reasoned decisions and investments about energy and climate risk are made early enough to make a difference