Speakers from Shell, Wood Mackenzie and TechnipFMC agreed that offshore oil and gas production provides the lowest carbon barrels when compared to other producing regions.
Analysts say it won't be easy for China to balance emission goals and economic targets, but it will try to ease supply shortfalls and price rises with export tariffs and higher imports.
Digital technology is enabling brave, new design possibilities in the offshore world to make a measurable difference in the mitigation of carbon emissions.
The Japanese aviation industry is making serious efforts to cut carbon dioxide emissions as the government has declared a goal of achieving carbon neutrality in the country by 2050.