Frontline international energy law expert and global vice chair of the International Law Association, Professor Damilola Olawuyi (SAN) has called for more strategic focus on international energy law and diplomacy to advance all aspects of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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The Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), who is also a UNESCO Chair on Environmental Law and Sustainable Development HBKU, made these remarks while delivering a compelling public seminar organized by the Centre for International Law (CIL) at the National University of Singapore. Olawuyi was in Singapore as a Distinguished Visiting Global Scholar at CIL, a foremost hub for international law research and discourse.
Themed “International Energy Law: Recent Developments and Future Research Agenda,” the event brought together close to one thousand participants, both in person and online, including practitioners, academics, students, business executives, and other stakeholders in international law who converged under the aegis of CIL’s Energy Law and Policy program.
The event featured opening remarks from Dr. Nilufer Oral, Director of CIL, while the session was moderated by the Head of Energy Law and Policy at CIL, Denise Cheong. While emphasing the journey so far in the development of international energy law as a distinct discipline that governs the development, use, transfer and management of all forms of energy, whether renewable or non-renewable, Professor Olawuyi, SAN, noted that international energy law has come of age, and will be crucial for balancing the three important goals of energy security, energy transition, and energy sovereingty.
According to him: “Several of the energy-related challenges facing our world today, ranging from achieving energy security, promoting sustainable energy, and accelerating a just and inclusive energy transition that leaves no one behind, cannot be addressed in isolation. There is therefore an urgent need for a more focused research agenda on international energy law aimed at unlocking legal innovation that will accelerate energy trade and cooperation, access to energy transition minerals, grid-to-grid interconnectivity, and joint energy infrastructure financing and development across countries and regions.”
While lamenting the increasing tendency for isolation and lack of multilateral energy cooperation, Olawuyi called on international energy lawyers and stakeholders to unlock innovative win-win approaches for accelerating energy trade, reducing conflictive geopolitics, resource nationalism, and other pressing challenges that may stifle international solidarity and cooperation that is urgently needed to accelerate all aspects of the SDGs globally, especially SDG 7 on energy for all. He also highlighted the need for innovative financing approaches including public-private patnerships needed to mobilize financing for infrastructure repurposing, grid connectivity and the deployment of new technologies, such as green hydrogen technologies, interconnectors, sensor arrays, artificial intelligence in the energy industry. Olawuyi concluded that promoting international energy cooperation and diplomacy for the clean energy transition is the task of the century for international energy lawyers.
The ensuing interactive discussions featured questions and exchange on the opportunties for cross-discipline collaboration, especially in areas of energy arbitration and dispute resolution that will be essential to promote the fair, speedy and efficient resolution of disputes relating to cross-border energy investments, including time-sensitive disputes relating to energy transition projects.
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