British P.M. Starmer Launches Global Clean Power Alliance as UK Leads the Global Energy Transition

Wedoany.com Report-Nov 21, UK continues to lead the way on tackling the climate crisis, following PM's interventions at COP29 in Azerbaijan last week

The Prime Minister has officially launched the UK-led Global Clean Power Alliance today, in a major boost for the world's clean energy transition.

Brazil, Australia, Barbados, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Morocco, Norway, Tanzania, the African Union are the first countries to sign up to its first mission. The United States and the European Union will also partner with the UK on the initiative.

At the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the Prime Minister and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva confirmed the new partnership, saying that it will speed up the global drive for clean power by uniting developed and developing countries across the north and south.

The alliance of countries will work together and share expertise with the goal of meeting the COP28 commitments to triple renewable energy and double energy efficiency.

The Global Clean Power Alliance will have 'Missions' to address the most critical energy transition challenges. The first of these is the Finance Mission, which will be published today and co-chaired by Brazil, will harness the political leadership needed to unlock private finance on a huge scale, so that no developing country is left behind.

It commits to supporting countries to build investment platforms and providing the assistance needed to get clean finance flowing.

The UK is leading the way on the green energy transition. One of the Prime Minister's missions is to make Britain a clean energy superpower - making the British people better off by investing in clean homegrown power to end national exposure to fossil fuel markets and the dictators who control them.

The UK has already seen pound sterling34.8 billion of private investment into homegrown clean energy industries since July - unlocking thousands of jobs and making the British people better off.

There are already around 640,000 people employed in green jobs across the UK - a rise of 20% from 2020 to 2022, growing at a rate 4 times faster than overall UK employment.

The UK's success highlights the potential for the global transition, as well as marking the return to responsible global leadership on the biggest challenges of our time.

Since taking office in July, the government has also lifted the de facto ban on onshore wind, pledged to end new oil and gas licences and launched the new national clean power company GB Energy.