This World Energy Conference was held in Japan—a country that had suffered the Fukushima Nuclear Leak just a few years earlier. Choosing this location was meant to help people distinguish Nuclear Fusion from nuclear fission.
On the other hand, the location was excellent. Japan had long served as the United States' pawn, and holding the conference here also signaled its transition toward becoming an office bridging East and West.
In the old days, discussions mostly revolved around oil. If there was a war, people discussed how oil prices severely harmed developing countries and called for stable energy prices, secure energy supply, and so on.
If there was no war, they discussed environmental protection and sustainable energy, things like "energy transition creates a livable planet."
But without breakthrough technology such as Controllable Nuclear Fusion, such topics did not mean much. At most, they provided an excuse to condemn this country or that one over carbon emissions. As for actually spending money on Nuclear Fusion research, that depended on whether oil oligarchs and other wealthy tycoons were willing.
Even if Nuclear Fusion truly emerged, promoting it would be difficult—Roxxon's involvement in the assassination attempt on Norman had partly been driven by this. If everyone used Nuclear Fusion for electricity, who would buy their oil and gas?
The conference itself was a platform, a premier event in the global energy sector. Energy policymakers, corporations, and experts from every country gathered here to present their technologies, ideas, and achievements.
The theme of this conference was "Future Energy in an Interdependent World." Without Nuclear Fusion, there would not have been much to discuss, but now that circumstances had changed, it had become highly meaningful. After all, the theme could have simply been "Building a New Energy Order for the Future," without mentioning interdependence at all.