Global Renewables Summit
September 24, 2024
The Plaza Hotel, New York, NY
11:30 am to 1:00 pm ET
The Global Renewables Summit was the first-ever high-level public-private summit to discuss the progress, opportunities, and challenges of tripling renewable energy globally by 2030.
Following the first Global Stocktake adopted at COP28 and captured in the historic UAE Consensus – which calls for tripling the world’s renewable energy capacity and doubling energy efficiency gains by 2030, and ensuring deep, rapid, and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in line with a pathway to limit global warming to 1.5 °C – the Summit served as a platform to advance key areas of action to scale-up renewable deployment this decade, especially in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs).
The Summit was co-hosted by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Global Renewables Alliance (GRA), in partnership with the governments of Barbados, Brazil and Kenya, the European Commission, the COP28 and COP29 Presidencies, the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), and the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University – SIPA.
Speakers
- H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President, European Commission
- H.E. William Ruto, President, Kenya
- H.E. Mia Mottley, Prime Minister, Barbados
- Michael R. Bloomberg, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions
- H.E. Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, COP28 President, UAE
- H.E. Mukhtar Babayev, COP29 President, Azerbaijan
- Selwin Hart, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on Climate and Just Transition
- Francesco La Camera, Director-General, International Renewable Energy Agency
- Julia Souder, Chair, Global Renewables Alliance
- Shemara Wikramanayake, CEO, Macquarie
Media
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