Clean Energy Ministerial

The Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) are global forums held to promote policies and to share best practices with the aim of accelerating a transition to clean energy. The forums have included partnerships and collaboration between the private sector, public sector. non-governmental organizations, and others. The forum typically incorporated two interrelated features: 1) an annual high-level policy dialogue with energy ministers and other top global stakeholders; and 2) year-round policy-targeted technical initiatives and high-visibility campaigns. The CEM is currently the only regular meeting of energy ministers focused exclusively on clean energy.

President Obama announced in a video message at the sixth Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM6) in Mérida, Mexico that the United States would host the seventh Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM7) in 2016. At COP21 in Paris in December, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced CEM7 would be hosted in San Francisco, California. CEM7 is a high-level meeting of energy ministers coming together to discuss and implement actions of respective climate and clean energy goals put forward at COP21. CEM7 includes a public-private action day with opportunities for governments, companies, and other key stakeholders to highlight ambitious clean energy efforts and announce new actions to help achieve national and global clean energy and climate goals.

Through the CEM, 23 countries and the European Commission collaborate on efforts to improve energy efficiency, enhance clean energy supply, and expand clean energy access. Members of the CEM as of 2016 are Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, European Commission, Finland, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Norway, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States.

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