Ministerial Meetings
Annual ministerial meetings serve as an important platform to advance international collaboration to accelerate the adoption of clean energy technologies worldwide. Energy ministers from 23 participating governments come together to assess progress and guide work under 11 concrete, transformative clean energy initiatives. Ministerial meetings also provide an opportunity for high-level engagement with private-sector stakeholders in a variety of formats, ranging from public panel sessions to roundtable dialogues, co-chaired by ministers and chief executive officers.
The CEM is currently the only regular meeting of energy ministers at which they exclusively discuss clean energy. The CEM also includes involvement from other ministries that play an important role in clean energy in some governments, such as ministries of science and technology or economics.
International collaboration under the Clean Energy Ministerial is action-oriented and flexible; there are no negotiated texts or binding agreements. Additionally, there is no requirement that all governments that participate in the ministerial meetings also participate in each of the clean-energy-focused initiatives.
Past Ministerial Meetings
The first Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM1) was hosted by U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu in Washington, DC, in July 2010. The United Arab Emirates hosted the second Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM2) in Abu Dhabi in April 2011.
More about Clean Energy Ministerial 1 (CEM1)
More about Clean Energy Ministerial 2 (CEM2)
Future Ministerial Meetings
Upcoming ministerial meetings will include the third Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM3) in London, UK, 25–26 April 2012; the fourth Clean Energy Ministerial in New Delhi, India, in 2013; and the fifth Clean Energy Ministerial in Seoul, Korea, in 2014.
Photo: Ministers gathered at the second Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM2) in Abu Dhabi on 6-7 April 2011.
Photo: Press conference at the second Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM2) in Abu Dhabi.