1. Leveraging CEM as an Action and Implementation Platform
for Global Priorities, including UNFCCC MWP
Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG)
Global Forum on the Environment and Climate Change
12-13 September 2023

2. 2
CEM, by design, an implementation platform
CEM Ministerial Meetings since 2010
The CEM Framework Agreement adopted in 2016..
• Explicitly links CEM to the Paris Agreement and to the
adoption of the UN Sustainable Development Goals…
• and recognizes the unique role the CEM can play within
the global clean energy institutional architecture to
help its Members and the broader world implement their
self-determined clean energy goals

3. 3
CEM’s Value in Multilateral Initiatives
A Ready-made Platform for G7, G20, COP, and other political fora
Collaborative
Actions:
No text
negotiations or
consensus
seeking
All Inclusive
Community:
Governments,
Expert
Organizations,
Private Sector
Practical
collaboration:
Roll-up your
sleeves manner
Scale, ambition,
impact:
Deploy-deploy-
deploy
Technology
Neutral:
Bottom-up,
choose as you
see fit
Single focus: Scaling up deployment!

4. A History of CEM as an Implementation Platform
2009 - 2015 2016 2017-2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Political Commitments
Implementation and Action

5. A History of CEM as an Implementation Platform
2009 - 2015 2016 2017-2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Political Commitments
Implementation and Action

6. 2009 - 2015 2016 2017-2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Political Commitments
Implementation and Action
CEM14
Electric Vehicle Initiative
2010 2016/2017 2021
Government fleet declaration signing
Flagship Report on Tracking EV deployment

7. 7
POWER
• 21st Century Power
Partnership
• Nuclear Innovation
• RISE3
• International Smart
Grid Action Network
• Regional & Global
Interconnection
• Transforming Solar
ENABLING ENVIRONMENT
• Empowering People
• Equality In Energy
Transitions
• Equal by 30 Campaign
• Long-Term Energy
Scenarios
• Investment & Finance
• Clean Energy Solutions
Center
BUILDINGS
• Super-Efficient
Appliance &
Equipment
Deployment
CROSS-SECTORAL
• Hydrogen Initiative
• Biofuture Platform
• Biofuture Campaign
INDUSTRY
• Carbon Capture,
Utilization, &
Storage
• Industrial Deep
Decarbonisation
• Green Public
Procurement
Campaign
TRANSPORT
• Electric
Vehicles Initiative
• Commercial
Vehicles Drive to
Zero Campaign
• Clean Energy
Marine Hubs
Many of these initiatives were launched and/or regularly feature at COP, including at COP28
CEM Workstream Portfolio

8. 8
1. International co-operation will be critical driver for clean energy
transition – more synergy, less duplication
2. UNFCCC MWP priorities resonate strongly with deployment focus of
the Clean Energy Ministerial
3. CEM platform and our 21 workstreams are “ready-made” action
coalitions to deliver the ambitious agenda set by UNFCCC - MWP
KEY MESSAGES: Turning Ambition to Action

9. Thank You