“Mission Innovation” Meetings: Energy Minister Meets with UN Official

Rabat – Minister of Energy, Mining and Environment Aziz Rabbah met, on Wednesday, with Damilola Ogunbiyi, UNSG Special Representative for sustainable Energy, in preparation for the high-level international meetings of the international alliance “Mission Innovation”.

According to a press release from the Solar Energy and New Energy Research Institute (IRESEN), talks between Rabbah and Ogunbiyi, also director general of the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All), come in preparation for these meetings which will take place online from May 31 to June 6, 2021 and of which Chile will be the host country.

These teleconference meetings follow the appointment of the Kingdom of Morocco as world champion on the theme of “innovation, technology and data”, the source said.

Mission Innovation is a global initiative bringing together 24 countries in addition to the European Union and aiming to accelerate innovation in the field of clean energies, through the strengthening of public investment, the involvement of the private sector and international cooperation.

It was launched at COP21 in November 2015 when world leaders gathered in Paris to tackle climate change.

Morocco joined the Mission Innovation alliance in 2019, becoming the first and only African country to be part of the initiative.

Under this initiative, the Ministry of Energy, Mining and Environment launched in December 2020, through IRESEN, the multilateral call for projects “MICall20” to support innovative projects linked to digitization in the field of energy transition.