Together, the ministerial meetings represent an opportunity to enhance climate commitments through big bets on innovation that empower a net zero energy transition by 2050—aiming to avert the worst effects of climate change and provides new economic opportunities for workers at home and abroad.

CEM and MI together consist of 31 countries that work closely with the private sector, industry, research institutions, finance institutions, and philanthropic organizations to drive deployment and innovation of energy efficiency and clean energy, including renewables, nuclear, and abated fossil energy. The organizations also work on labor transition issues to ensure that the creation of the net-zero economy leaves no community behind.

DOE helped launch CEM in 2010, gathering ministers from the world’s major economies to collaborate on accelerating clean energy adoption through enabling policy frameworks. The United States co-leads numerous CEM work streams with a goal of rapidly accelerating global deployment of clean energy technologies ranging from electric vehicles to carbon capture, utilization and storage, and hydrogen to biofuels.

MI, launched alongside the Paris Agreement in 2015, gathers governments, public authorities, industry, investors and academia to accelerate the production of widely affordable clean energy through “research missions” to limit the increase of global temperatures to 1.5 to 2.0 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The United States co-leads three MI Missions, including the Net-Zero Shipping and Clean Hydrogen Missions, and a third Mission on Carbon Dioxide Removal that the United States launched today with Saudi Arabia and Canada at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26).