Clean Energy Summit Iea

The event will bring together energy leaders and other stakeholders to.

Clean energy summit iea.

The summit was livestreamed across iea digital channels to a global audience that reached over 500 000 viewers. At our ministerial meeting in december i announced plans to hold an iea clean energy transitions summit in 2020. Ministers from countries representing the vast majority of global gdp energy use and greenhouse gas emissions will take part in the international energy agency s clean energy transitions summit on thursday 9 july gathering around a virtual table to discuss measures to boost economies create jobs reduce global emissions and make energy systems more resilient. Without a major acceleration in clean energy innovation net zero emissions targets will not be achievable.

When the covid 19 pandemic began sweeping around the world we led the calls in march for governments to put clean energy at the heart of recovery plans. Ministers from dozens of countries accounting for over 80 of the world economy took part in the international energy agency s first clean energy transitions summit. Speakers highlighted that the iea summit comes at a pivotal moment when the world faces urgent and shared challenges to build back economies create jobs and accelerate clean energy transitions. 2019 saw us intensify our activities across our priority countries and regions and in each of our six work streams including the creation of a seventh.

Image courtesy of iea. The summit was the culmination of a series of key iea activities in recent months. The iea with the support of the ministry of energy mines and environment of morocco will convene a virtual regional symposium on 21 september 2020 to discuss how best to accelerate clean energy transitions in north africa. The first two years of the clean energy transitions programme cetp have enabled the iea to serve its mission more effectively than ever working with major emerging economies to tackle their greatest obstacles to a clean energy future.

The world has seen a proliferating number of pledges by numerous governments and companies to reach net zero carbon dioxide co2 emissions in the coming decades as part of global efforts to meet long term sustainability goals such as the paris agreement on climate change. Ministers from countries representing the vast majority of global gdp energy use and greenhouse gas emissions will take part in the iea s clean energy transitions summit on thursday 9 july gathering around a virtual table to discuss measures to boost economies create jobs reduce global emissions and make energy systems more resilient. Towards a sustainable recovery the international energy agency s virtual summit to discuss measures to boost economies create jobs. On the 9 th july the iea held a high level ministerial meeting to discuss accelerating the transition to clean energy in the context of covid 19.

Ministers from countries representing the vast majority of global gdp energy use and greenhouse gas emissions will take part in the iea s clean energy transitions summit on thursday 9 july.