After the sensational energy panel of SPIEF 2024, the discussion in the Russian community of economists, climatologists and sustainable development specialists about the climate crisis, energy transition and the path to carbon neutrality that our country should choose intensified. There are extremely polar opinions from the ultraconservative to the ultra-liberal, according to which, in order to solve the climate crisis, it is necessary to abandon hydrocarbons as soon as possible.

Based on these discussions, Andrey Osiptsov, Director of the Project Center for Energy Transition at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, believes that the truth is in the middle: the climate crisis is real, but the conclusions from this scientifically based statement have a pronounced political connotation.

How the world's leading economies use scientists' initially fair conclusions about the global climate crisis to create uncompetitive advantages in foreign trade, how gas is linked to molecules of freedom and a rule—based order, why you can be a patriot and not deny the anthropogenic factor of global climate change, and what technological priorities make up the strategy of sovereign energy transition for Russia - Andrey Osiptsov stated his position about all this in an article for the Expert magazine.