Proceedings of API Conference 2025: Empowering the future: Energy Transition and Economic Diversification in Arab Countries

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Arab countries are at a critical crossroads, facing unprecedented challenges due to climate change, concerted international efforts to accelerate the energy transition away from fossil fuels, and the emergence of the fourth industrial revolution, all of which significantly affect the development process and its sustainability.

This overlap between the different challenges and risks facing Arab countries complicates priorities and hampers, to varying degrees, the economic diversification efforts that have been underway for decades, and calls for bold and comprehensive structural reforms that embrace innovation, strengthen regional cooperation and develop flexible policies that combine energy transformation, economic diversification and improve competitiveness in the age of the knowledge economy and artificial intelligence.

Objectives

• Highlight the various challenges and issues facing the process of economic diversification and energy transformation in Arab countries, particularly those related to industrial policies, financing, technology and human capital, whose performance has affected, in one way or another, the level of Arab development and the associated risks.
• Explore visions and policies that crystallize a new framework for developing a more promising development horizon based on a realistic approach capable of addressing the most important gaps and shortcomings in the structure of Arab economies in the light of growing climate risks, digital transformation and AI to accelerate energy transformation and strengthen economic diversification and competitiveness.