• CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Julien Perez

Oil and Gas Climate Initiative

Vice President Strategy and Policy

As Strategy & Policy Vice President of OGCI, Julien Perez is responsible for coordinating actions and commitments, developing external policy views, managing relations with institutions and external stakeholders, and providing strategic direction to drive future development of the organization. Previously, Julien was head of Climate & Energy Services at EY where he assisted private and public companies in setting up and implementing low-carbon strategies. Julien also worked at TotalEnergies where he coordinated climate change actions and at Aecom managing environmental liabilities for various industries. Julien holds an Environmental Engineering degree from Agro ParisTech, an MSc in Energy and Climate Economics from Dauphine, an advanced degree in climate change management and natural capital from Yale, and an Executive MBA from HEC.

Sessions With Julien Perez

Monday, 18 March

  • 07:30pm - 09:00pm (CST) / 19/mar/2024 12:30 am - 19/mar/2024 02:00 am

    Climate Policies Post COP28

    Climate & Sustainability

    Climate change has become a top-tier agenda item for governments around the world and at international forums like the UN and G20. What are the different approaches that governments are taking at home to tackle climate change? How is climate ambition reshaping the global energy system, political alliances and trade? Can international initiatives still rally a consensus or must new strategies emerge to address the combined challenges of energy security, transition and affordability?

Tuesday, 19 March

  • 07:15am - 08:20am (CST) / 19/mar/2024 12:15 pm - 19/mar/2024 01:20 pm

    Forging Climate Solutions: How to accelerate action across America
    Climate & Sustainability

    As the United States becomes even more politically polarized, what happens to climate policy? This panel will consider the key findings from a large, bipartisan consensus report Forging Climate Solutions: How to Accelerate Action Across America by the Commission on Accelerating Climate Action of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The report, which reflects views from the arts and sciences, faith communities, environmental justice, youth activism, indigenous communities and public health, outlines a strategy for building and enhancing action on climate change even as American politics grow more fractious. Central to this action is a fair bargain to deploy green infrastructure equitably. How can siting and investment in infrastructure be improved? How can needed funding for innovation and deployment of new technologies be sustained? 

  • 02:30pm - 03:00pm (CST) / 19/mar/2024 07:30 pm - 19/mar/2024 08:00 pm

    Accelerating Methane Reduction through Financing and Collaboration
    Carbon Management/Decarbonization

    COP28 saw the announcement of new financing initiatives to accelerate the reduction of methane emissions in Oil & Gas and other sectors. Financing may help to accelerate actions by NOCs in some major oil producing regions, especially in developing economies. In practice, such investments also need collaboration between producers and regulators to ensure alignment on regulatory and fiscal incentives and access to gas infrastructure and gas buyers. What further measures need to be implemented on this new funding? What further collaborations between industries and governments will best ensure early success?

Wednesday, 20 March

  • 12:00pm - 12:50pm (CST) / 20/mar/2024 05:00 pm - 20/mar/2024 05:50 pm

    Bringing Down Emissions in Supply Chains
    Energy Infrastructure/Supply Chains

    Improving the performance of supply chain delivery times, costs and carbon footprint is critical to all participants in the chain and to the ultimate customer. But to deliver on these improvements requires changes to hardware, facilities, operational practices and technologies used, as well as inventorizing and quantifying emissions from all partners activities and materials. What are some of the best practices and tools that enable efficient management of supply chain performance? How much room is there for further reduction in delivery times or emissions through the application of these practices?  

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