Pax Electricana: Powering a New Electro-Industrial Order

​The next great peace dividend won't come from diplomacy alone — it will come from electrons.

​The world's heaviest industries — steel, aluminum, cement, chemicals — are among the largest sources of global emissions and are deeply embedded in geopolitical risk, dependent on fossil fuel supply chains that run through chokepoints and politically volatile regions. Decarbonizing them isn't just a climate imperative. It is an economic and national security imperative.

​Pax Electricana is a framework for building a new industrial order grounded in the complementarities between regions rich in renewable energy (e.g. California and Australia) and those with advanced manufacturing, technology, and capital (e.g. East Asia and the EU). Where sun, wind, and geothermal resources are abundant but underutilized, and where industrial ambition is present but constrained by energy cost or supply, there is an extraordinary opportunity to forge alliances built on electrons rather than extractives — trading clean iron, aluminum, and copper instead of oil and coal.

​Join us for an intimate evening of conversation exploring how this transition gets financed, structured, and scaled. Featuring remarks from Saul Griffith (Rewiring America / Rewiring Australia) and Ricky Huang (Climate Era Catalyst).

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