T&T’s par­tic­i­pa­tion this week in the First Con­fer­ence on Tran­si­tion­ing Away from Fos­sil Fu­els comes at a crit­i­cal junc­ture, as de­bate in­ten­si­fies over how the coun­try can bal­ance its eco­nom­ic de­pen­dence on oil and gas with the glob­al push for a struc­tured and fi­nanced en­er­gy tran­si­tion.

“As soon as the eco­nom­ics gets bad for oil and gas, peo­ple get in­ter­est­ed in re­new­ables. As soon as oil and gas be­come more af­ford­able, peo­ple drop it.”

That was the blunt as­sess­ment from en­er­gy ex­pert An­tho­ny Paul, as he sat down for an in­ter­view with the Sun­day Busi­ness Guardian last week.