More than 20 countries
from six continents met recently at the sixth Clean Energy Ministerial, or CEM, in Mérida, Mexico and agreed on
the importance of supporting the rapid growth of global clean
energy economy, in particular, energy efficiency and a diversity of renewable
resources such as solar, wind, hydro, sustainable biomass, and
geothermal.
Founded in 2009, the CEM advances cooperation on clean energy
among a group of countries encompassing around 90 percent of global clean
energy investment. Since 2011, the CEM’s Clean
Energy Solutions Center has provided no-cost, high-quality, and real-time
expert advice to more than 80 countries around the world. For example,
the Solutions Center helped Caribbean countries set an ambitious sustainable
energy target of 47 percent for 2027 that will help reduce their dependence on
expensive oil-fired electricity generation. Read
more at http://ec.europa.eu/