gbn.com: Whereas energy was once managed as a cost, companies in every sector increasingly see it as a strategic risk—and even as a source of new value and opportunity. In “Energy Strategy for the Road Ahead,” Global Business Network describes how this transformation might unfold in the next decade amid mounting geopolitical, technological, climatic, and energy uncertainties; the strategic challenges and options likely to arise; and what companies can do now to prepare.

The report summarizes a year-long project sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR program. Senior executives from 20 major U.S. companies—including Merck, National Starch & Chemical, HSBC, and Toyota—along with energy experts from GBN and the EPA’s ENERGY STAR program examined the potential energy impacts that U.S. businesses may face over the next decade, based on four plausible scenarios of the world in 2020:
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