🟢 Climate x Sovereignty: Can Europe's net zero ambitions survive geopolitical volatility?

​This event is part of The Drop 2024. To attend, you must have a ticket to The Drop. Apply for a Drop 2024 ticket.

​Session Overview: Join us for an open conversation about how we can work to bring together breakthrough technology, creative policy, and responsive capital to continue driving toward a more sustainable economy in the face of volatility.

​For the first time in a century, Europe must prioritize resilience and strategic autonomy as war nears, stressing its fragile energy systems and reshuffling supply chains. The rise of artificial intelligence intensifies these challenges, creating complex trade-offs between technological competitiveness, climate goals, and data security. Meanwhile, the U.S. has quickly adapted to Great Power Competition with significant policy changes like the Inflation Reduction Act and CHIPs Act, attracting talent and capital. Amidst conflict, rising nationalism, and deglobalization, these developments raise critical questions about Europe's aspirations to be a global green superpower.

​Key Questions:

• ​How can climate progress boost European prosperity and security?

• ​How must the capital ecosystem evolve to support European companies at the climate-sovereignty intersection?

• ​What policy action is needed to enhance Europe's local, sustainable production and resilient supply chains?

• ​What have startups and investors done to leverage this opportunity, and what can others learn from it?

​Who should attend? Founders, political activists, and investors passionate about the role climate technologies play in fostering sovereignty in Europe and helping the continent control its own technological and social destiny.