The energy and resource consumption in the post-industrialization era has produced a structural increase of Greenhouse Gases emissions, causing critical and unsustainable global warming effects. Despite five years have passed from the Paris Agreement, current efforts remain insufficient to put the world on a pathway towards global climate change mitigation and adaptation.
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a negative energy demand shock, decreasing Greenhouse Gases emissions in an unprecedented way; previous crises, though, showed that the reduction of emissions due to contingent phenomena is unlikely to turn into a long-term trend, and have marginal impacts on the climate change trajectory. Thus, structural actions are needed to accelerate the radical decarbonization of global economy and a “low-carbon energy transition”.
A sustainable energy transition could offer a range of economic opportunities; however, while pursuing them, it is of paramount importance to address inequalities and vulnerabilities among communities.
Alongside decarbonization strategies, urgent actions are also required to stop environmental degradation and preserve the natural balance of the ecosystems.
A growing group of major economies and leading companies has recently committed to pledge a consistent, sustainable, carbon neutral and climate resilient transition by 2050. In the wake of this increasing awareness, the Italy’s B20 ‘Energy & Resource Efficiency’ Task Force aims at providing impactful and actionable recommendations to empower a sustainable progress, reshaping our future in an inclusive way

Chair
CEO and General Manager of the Enel Group (joined in 2000) since May 2014. From 2008 to 2014 he served as CEO and General Manager of Enel Green Power. His previous experiences were in General Electric Group, ABB Group, Alstom Power Corporation. Since 2014 he has been a member of the Advisory Board of the UN’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative. In 2015 he joined the Board of Directors of the United Nations’ Global Compact. From 2019 he has become member of the UN Global Investors for Sustainable Development Alliance (GISD). From 2016 until 2018 he was co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Energy Utilities and Energy Technologies Community. From 2017 to 2019 he served as President of Eurelectric, the European association for the electricity industry. Mr. Starace was nominated Co-Chair B20 the 2017 B20 Energy, Climate and Resource Efficiency Task Force in 2016 and Co-Chair of the Energy, Sustainability and Climate Taskforce – B20 Saudi Arabia in 2020. He graduated in Nuclear Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan.

Deputy Chair
Simone Mori is Head of Europe at the Enel Group. This is one of the world’s leading integrated electricity operators, with a presence in over 30 countries and around 74 million end users globally. In his role, he is responsible for the Group’s advocacy activity towards European institutions and he oversees operations in several countries in Europe where the Group is present, including Russia, Romania and Greece.
Over the years he has held various positions within the Group and has been responsible for European Affairs, for Regulatory Affairs, Environment, Innovation and for Carbon Strategy. He has served on the board of Enel companies both in Italy and abroad and is currently a board member of Enel Russia and Slovak Power Holding, in addition to being member of the scientific committee of the Enel Foundation.
Simone Mori has held leadership positions in business associations such as Assoelettrica and Elettricità Futura, the latter being the first example in Europe of integration among power operators from conventional and renewable sources. He has been in charge of the Energy Committee of the Business Association of Milan and Rome and of Confindustria. He is a board member of Bruegel, a European think tank, of the Centre on Regulation in Europe and of the scientific committee of the EastWest European Institute. He has also been a Senior Transatlantic Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the US and a member of the General Assembly and the Executive Committee of Observatoire Méditerranéen de l’Energie. He lectures in Economics and Management of Energy Sources at La Sapienza and LUISS Guido Carli Universities in Rome. He has a degree in Physics and an MBA.

Co-Chair
Chief Executive Officer and Board Member of YPF, Argentina’s leading energy company, since April 2020, and President of the UN Global Compact Argentine Network since December 2020. From 2012 to 2016 he served as YPF Shared Services VP and Board Alternate Member, as well as President of Astra Evangelista, an engineering and construction company specialized in the energy market. From 2013 until 2016 he was President and Co-founder of YPF Technology (Y-TEC), one of the largest R&D energy centers in Latin America, focused on applied new energy solutions. Since 2016, he worked as an independent consultant in strategic energy projects in Argentina and the region. He previously worked for Repsol-YPF in Argentina and Repsol Group in Latin America, Europe and Northern Africa. He served as Strategic Planning Manager for Upstream Operations in Latin America, Director of Supply and Contracts for Upstream, Technical Planning Director for Gas Projects in Algeria, Planning and Management Control Director for Europe, Asia and Africa, Country Manager and General Manager in Ecuador and Director of Corporate Development. He holds degrees in Administration and Pubic Accounting from the Universidad Católica Argentina, with a postgraduate degree in Business from the IAE. He also completed an O&G Management and Engineering program at the University of Texas in Austin.

Co-Chair
Patricia Collawn is chairman, president, and CEO of PNM Resources. Ms. Collawn served as the first female Chairman of the board of directors of EEI, a national association of investor-owned electric companies. She also served as Chairman of EPRI, a nonprofit center for public interest energy and environmental research. Collawn serves on the Board of Directors of Equitrans Midstream Corporation and Nuclear Electric Insurance Ltd.

Co-Chair

Co-Chair
Mr. Gurdeep Singh is the Chairman & Managing Director of NTPC Limited, India’s largest integrated power utility and a global energy major. In an illustrious career spanning more than three and a half decades, he has held leadership positions with several national and multinational companies like PowerGen, CESC, AES, IDFC and GSECL among others. An accomplished business leader with expertise in building and managing businesses across the power sector value chain, Mr. Singh is leading NTPC’s transformational journey into a sustainable integrated energy company. He is also currently heading Damodar Valley Corporation, India and is acclaimed for its turnaround from losses to profits. Mr. Singh is an alumnus of NIT Kurukshetra and IIM Ahmedabad and has undergone management and leadership training from Harvard and Oxford business schools. An acclaimed thought-leader in Power Generation and Energy space, he speaks frequently at global platforms such as WEF, IEA, ISA, Bloomberg and many others. Mr. Singh is one of the early proponents of clean energy in India. As MD & CEO of GSECL, he implemented a Canal top solar project in 2012 which won the prestigious Prime Minister Award for Excellence in Public Administration. Mr. Singh is also the co-chair for the Stewardship Board for the Platform of energy & materials, World Economic Forum (WEF). He has been serving as the Secretary- General for World Energy Council India. He is also a member of the Clean Energy Ministerial Hydrogen initiative advisory group coordinated by IEA. Mr. Singh embraces innovation and a people-centric sustainable approach to business. Under his leadership, NTPC has been consistently ranked as a ‘best employer’ internationally and also received awards and recognitions for its community oriented innovative CSR initiatives and business sustainability. Mr. Singh firmly believes that clean and green power is going to become the fulcrum of most of the human needs in improving people’s lives and standards globally.

Co-Chair
Jean-Pascal Tricoire, 57 years old, joined Schneider Electric in 1986. He was appointed to the Executive Committee in charge of the International Division end of 2001, became COO late in 2003, President & Chief Executive Officer in 2006 and has finally been named Chairman & CEO in April 2013. His career at Schneider Electric has developed largely outside France in operational functions in Italy, China, South Africa and USA, and he leads Asia business as Chairman and Regional President of Schneider Electric Asia Pacific. Jean-Pascal holds a degree in Electronic Engineering and an MBA. Jean-Pascal is co-Chairman of the France-China business Council. He currently sits on the Global CEO Council of China’s Premier Li Keqiang, as well as on the Advisory Board of the Mayors of Beijing and Shanghai. He is a director of the worldwide board of the UN Global Compact. Jean-Pascal is also a UN #HeForShe Corporate IMPACT champion working with other heads of state, universities and companies to advance gender equality. Since 2019, he has been a member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum.

Co-Chair
Mr. Xin owns a Master of Engineering in electrical engineering from North China Electric Power University. Deeply engaged in power sector for over 4 decades with rich management experience in generation, transmission and distribution, he is now the Executive Chairman of SGCC. Prior to assuming his current role in January 2021, he served as President and the Executive Vice President of the company successively and Executive Vice President of China Huadian Corporation.

Task Force Manager
Massimo Beccarello is Professor of Industrial Economics and Environmental Economics at the University of Milan Bicocca. In Confindustria he is responsible for the energy and environmental sustainability area. Author of numerous publications in the energy and circular economy fields, he is director of CESISP (Center of Economics and Regulation of Public Utility Services of the University of Milan Bicocca).