Questions for the Future - in association with Shell

The Series

There's an emerging consensus between legislators and business leaders across the world, that we must now focus on broadening the energy landscape beyond traditional sources. But unconventional sources bring a new set of challenges. As Questions for the future moves into its fourth series, we continue to explore the issues and search for answers.

Discussion Programmes

Powering Progress

Johannesburg - South Africa

CNBC Africa’s Peter Ndoro joins the Questions for the Future team in Johannesburg to lead our debate on how sub-Saharan Africa can produce enough power to fuel economic growth. Like almost 2/3 of the continent, South Africa has suffered frequent and extended power outages over the last year which have had a dramatic impact on its economy.

The team gathered together some of the Africa’s biggest stakeholders and asked whether now is the time to re-think the way power is generated, delivered and sold across the sub-continent.

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Questions for the future - Gets Personal

In this episode, we get a personal invite into one of the best offices in the French capital. The executive director of the International Energy Agency, Nobuo Tanaka shares his close-up view of the Eifel tower and speaks openly with CNBC presenter Steve Sedgwick about the increasing complexity of his job.

The IEA started life as an "Energy Nato", the brainchild of Henry Kissinger, but since then the politics of the world energy market has changed radically.

Tanaka presides over an emergency stockpile of oil for the members of OECD, but with the price of oil at record highs, complex climate change issues at play and the changing balance of oil consuming countries, the IEA faces an evolving and broadening mandate. Tanaka discusses how they hope to get this balance right and his vision for lasting energy solutions.

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