The response of governments to the war in Ukraine has plunged the world into an energy security mindset, with Europe doubling down on renewable energy investments. But is Europe doing enough to meet the goals of the Paris agreement? Where do we need to move more quickly to achieve net zero by 2050? 

To help explore these challenges, Shell is pleased to share The Energy Security Scenarios:  Archipelagos and Sky 2050. The scenarios explore how the world could possibly evolve under different sets of assumptions and can help individuals and organisations think about the long-term challenges that they, and the world at large, could face. The Archipelagos scenario seeks to follow a possible path from where the world was in 2022, while Sky 2050 takes a “normative approach” that starts with a desired outcome and works backwards to explore how that outcome could be achieved. In the case of Sky 2050, the future it is aimed at is a world that accomplishes net-zero emissions by 2050.