Picture this: you're in a top team running a multi-national corporation, perhaps in consumer goods, automotive manufacturing, or financial services. A decade ago, your business environment was relatively stable. Your value chains seemed reliable, and your strategic risks reasonably contained. Today, those certainties are dissolving. You're facing a landscape reshaped by forces moving faster and cutting deeper than anything you can remember: disruptive technologies evolving at exponential speed, geopolitical fault lines redrawing trade routes and investment flows, and mounting competition for the critical resources that underpin the global economy. At the center of this storm lies the energy challenge. Energy demand is rising, driven by economic growth, electrification, and digitalization across the Global South. But our energy supply system, dependent on fossil fuels, is incompatible with climate goals, investor expectations,…
