Polytechnique Montréal's Institut de l'énergie Trottier is inviting you to the Trottier Symposium 2025. This year, we are pleased to welcome Simon Sharpe, author of the acclaimed book "Five Times Faster".

In his conference, Simon Sharpe will talk about how the wrong kind of economics has encouraged governments to look at the energy transition backwards: starting with putting pressure on the incumbent systems, instead of by building the new. Technology transitions did not happen this way in the past. Understanding the economy as a system that is evolving rather than static leads to a different view of each of the main levers of policy. It also suggests a way forward for diplomacy - an approach that is less about emissions targets and more about tipping points. In both national policy and international diplomacy, new ideas and institutions could enable faster progress on the transition, making better use of whatever political and financial capital is available.