Access to electricity is a key factor for the future of the African continent. Energy poverty and lack of universal access to electricity services are, in fact, remarkably hurting human progress in Africa. Today, sub-Saharan Africa hosts 14 percent of the world’s population but 60 percent of the world’s people without access to electricity: of the more than 1 billion people globally who had no access to electricity, around 600 million lived in the region.

The need for a rapid but orderly energy transition implies significant political, economic and social changes at both the European and global levels, in order to reap its benefits and maintain economic growth. The discussion with Laurence Tubiana - CEO of the European Climate Foundation, France’s Climate Change Ambassador and Special Representative for COP21 - will assess the roadmap to 2050 and its main implications for the energy sector, by also looking at the future of Europe and its role in the world also in the light of the upcoming European Parliament elections.