U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm spoke about how the global energy market can be made more resilient and secure by transforming to clean energy at a recent Group of Seven (G7) climate meeting.
"Proud to stand with our partners at the @G7Ministerial on Climate, Energy and Environment to affirm our shared commitment to tackling the climate crisis, growing a clean energy workforce, and bolstering global energy security," Granholm said in an April 15 tweet at the outset of the meeting.
Granholm served as Head of Delegation for the Energy Track of the G7 Ministers’ Meeting on Climate, Energy, and the Environment, held April 15 and April 16 in Sapporo, Japan, according to the April 17 readout of her visit released by the Department of Energy (DOE). At the meeting, the G7 ministers "delivered a strong message that the G7 remains in lock-step on the most pressing global energy and climate challenges," according to the readout.
U.S. Sec. of Energy Jennifer Granholm (back row, fifth from left) at the G7 Ministers' Meeting on Climate, Energy and Environment, Sapporo, Japan, April 15-16, 2023.
| Twitter/Secretary Jennifer Granholm
"This document sends an important signal to the rest of the world – from other governments, to industry, to civil society – that G7 nations are mobilizing to accelerate the decarbonization and diversification of our energy sources," the G7 ministers stated in a communique, according to the DOE readout.
The G7 countries - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States - agreed to the "unprecedented commitment to more quickly phase out unabated fossil fuels in energy systems in order to meet net-zero goals by 2050, the readout reports.
They also committed to maintaining a 1.5C limit for the global temperature increase; work to get similar commitments from other major global economies; introduction of a five-point action plan on critical minerals; and a "collective effort" to increase offshore wind deployment by 150 GW and solar PV deployment by 1 TW, according to the readout.
Granholm also "made concrete progress" in meetings with international counterparts from Japan, France, Canada, the European Union (EU) and others, the readout reports, including signing a joint statement on civil nuclear fuel cooperation, and gave keynote remarks at the G7 Nuclear Forum.
The Office of Nuclear Energy stated in an April 17 post on Twitter than the international nuclear fuel statement "will help loosen Russia’s grip on supply chains and advance energy security & economic resilience for our global partners."
Granholm, in a separate Twitter post, said she was "honored" to speak with the ministers about how clean energy and climate plans in the U.S. have advanced under the Biden administration.
"We're making historic breakthroughs that affirm our progress on the pathway to deploying more nuclear energy," Granholm said in the tweet.
