Participation in the EU Energy Day - COP26 Side Event

2021-11-05 | Beijing

On 5 November 2021, the European Chamber Energy Working Group representatives attended the EU Energy Day Chinese language live streaming event, organised by the EU-China Energy Cooperation Platform (ECECP), in recognition of the similar challenges faced by the EU and China in the energy transition and in tackling climate change.

The event highlighted the EU’s leading role in the energy transition, engage international players in the global green recovery and energy transition, and offer an opportunity to share best practice. It brought energy players together in Beijing to follow presentations given at November’s Climate Change Conference (COP26) summit in Glasgow. COP26 is an international event organised by the European Union, together with the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Its aim is to highlight the EU’s leading role in the energy transition, engage international players in the global green recovery and energy transition, and offer an opportunity to share best practice.

Representatives from the EU delegation in Beijing, the National Energy Administration, as well as energy industry experts and academics from institutions such as China Electricity Council, State Grid Energy Research Institute, as well as the China National Institute of Standardisation, attended the event in-person, joined by 16 journalists from noted media outlets.

EU Energy Day has been an annual event since 2016, and is intended by the European Commission to showcase the EU’s successful promotion of clean energy and its current and upcoming initiatives. The aim is to share experiences and expertise with international partners, while providing businesses, innovators and investors the opportunity to exchange ideas. In 2021, it formed part of the COP26 international climate change conference in Glasgow.

‘EU Energy Day offers China a good opportunity to better understand the EU’s recent energy politics and will help to inspire new initiatives with China and other international partners to jointly explore effective solutions to the future challenges of the energy transition,’ said Octavian Stamate, Climate Action and Energy Counsellor of the EU Delegation to China, in his welcoming speech. The event sessions focused on critical topics including just transition, offshore renewable energy, green hydrogen, the phasing out of coal and methane emission reduction.