Brussels, 01/10/2015 (Agence Europe) - Sustainable energy access, energy efficiency, renewable energy and energy investment will be the issues on which ministers will focus at the very first meeting of the energy ministers of the G20 countries (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, United Kingdom, US and the EU) in Istanbul on Thursday 2 October.
The ministers are expected to adopt a toolkit of voluntary options for long-term, integrated and sustainable approach towards accelerated renewable energy deployment.
As G20 countries host 80% of existing renewable electricity capacity around the world and hold 75% of total global deployment potential, they play a key role in mitigating climate change, says the Commission in a press release published the day before the meeting. European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Canete will represent the EU.
The G20 ministerial meeting will be held back-to-back with the G20 Conference on Energy Access in Sub-Saharan Africa, in Istanbul on 1 October.
On the sidelines of the meeting, Canete will meet Ali Rýza Alaboyun, Turkish energy minister, Ernest Moniz, United States secretary of energy, Josh Frydenberg, Australian energy minister and Ali bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum. (Original version in French by Emmanuel Hagry)