Lucas Chaumontet

Lucas Chaumontet is an expert in climate and sustainability, energy transition, natural resources, and process industries at Boston Consulting Group. He leads the firm’s work in climate and energy transition in Africa and is a member of the Global Leadership team on climate. Lucas is a core member of BCG’s Energy, and Social Impact practices.

Lucas has led various national multi-stakeholder initiatives in South Africa on the topics of energy transition and economic recovery. He has also led many strategy, decarbonization, and operational improvements programs for global energy and industrial companies.

Lucas joined the Paris office of Boston Consulting Group in 2009 and moved to Southeast Asia in 2012 as a BCG Ambassador. He worked there until 2018 before moving to Johannesburg.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

EDUCATION

MSc, Ecole Nationale des Ponts ParisTech

Publications and Videos

The Role of Gas in South Africa’s Path to Net-Zero

The Role of Gas in South Africa’s Path to Net-Zero analyses how gas can enable the integration of renewable energy at scale in the power sector, the phase-out of coal as a feedstock in the production of synthetic fuels (synfuels), the phase-out of coal and diesel as energy sources in broader industry, and the transition away from diesel in heavy transport. South Africa’s gas consumption will need to ramp down over time to ensure the country can achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

Building a Climate-Resilient, Low-Carbon, Job-Rich Africa

Climate change poses a significant threat to the continent. But as global decarbonization efforts intensify, Africa could emerge as a green powerhouse.

Decarbonising the Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use Sector in South Africa

The AFOLU sector in South Africa is a key socio-economic contributor and critical for ensuring local food security, employment, vibrant rural communities and forex earnings. The decarbonisation of South Africa’s Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use (AFOLU) sector analysis aims to provide an understanding how driving a Just Transition towards a decarbonised, climate-resilient South African AFOLU sector will be vital to ensuring the availability of healthy and sustainable food supply, maintaining and increasing export earnings, and enabling decarbonisation in other sectors, which require for example, biomass as a sustainable carbon feedstock.

Decarbonising South Africa's Petrochemicals and Chemicals Sector

The Decarbonising South Africa’s Petrochemicals and Chemicals Sector report confirms the petrochemicals and chemicals sector as a key contributor to South Africa’s energy security, and as a significant role-player in a decarbonised economy in the long-term.

Decarbonising the South African Mining Sector

South Africa’s mining sector is a key socio-economic contributor. To remain competitive globally, it will need to decarbonise, respond to shifting value pools, and adapt to local climate change impacts – while ensuring a Just Transition.

Green recovery a powerful opportunity for Africa

Despite African nations accounting for only 6% of global greenhouse gas emissions, they are still disproportionately exposed to the risks of climate change. This crisis provides Africa with the opportunity to accelerate climate action.

Decarbonising South Africa’s Power System

The Just Transition Pathways study focuses on sector level decarbonization. This report addresses the decarbonization pathway for South Africa's power sector to be net-zero by 2050.

Decarbonising South Africa’s Power System

A Power Sector Decarbonisation Report by the National Business Initiative (NBI), Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) shows that it is possible for South Africa to decarbonise its economy, by around 2050, and looks at ways to ensure a just transition that is economically, socially and environmentally sustainable and which leaves no one behind.

Green Recovery in Africa

Africa is responsible for just 6% of global greenhouse gas emissions but is disproportionately exposed to risks of climate change. This article highlights Africa’s opportunity to turn an economic recovery into a green recovery.

Pour une relance verte en Afrique!

L'Afrique n'est responsable que de 6 % des émissions mondiales de gaz à effet de serre, mais est exposée de manière disproportionnée aux risques du changement climatique. Cet article se penche sur l’opportunité de faire de la reprise économique en Afrique une relance verte.

Mining After COVID: The South African Case

In this publication we look into the South African case to examine how COVID-19 disruptions have affected the mining industry and propose some interventions to return the South African mining industry to competitiveness and growth.

Mining Needs to Go Faster on Climate

Mining executives can build an uncertainty advantage around climate-change risk by focusing on three strategic priorities.

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