Minister Jobet and Bill Gates promote the importance of innovation in clean energy – G5noticias

Energy and Mines Minister Juan Carlos Jobet has been invited to participate with Bill Gates and Canadian Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson in an activity that aims to promote the importance of l innovation in clean energy during this decade to achieve global climate goals.

During the activity, organized by Mission Innovation, the authorities agreed on the importance of public-private collaboration to accelerate innovation and develop new technologies, such as green hydrogen. Bill Gates, who participated in June in the most important event of the year on clean energy and innovation (CEM12MI6) and which was organized by Chile, stressed that “if we want to solve the climate crisis , innovation and new technologies in clean energies have been the central axis ”.

For his part, Minister Jobet underlined the importance of adopting a global vision of the climate crisis: “It is only by combining the efforts of governments and the private sector around the world that we will be able to achieve huge scale of transformation needed to mitigate the worst effects of the climate crisis. climate change “.

The Minister of Energy added that “as co-leader of the Clean Hydrogen Mission, Chile has seen firsthand the value of such collaboration thanks to Mission Innovation’s partnership with Breakthrough Energy”.

Mission Innovation is a key platform to achieve the breakthrough agenda, announced by world leaders on November 2 at COP26. Through the missions, governments and the private sector will work together to develop and test clean technologies in multiple sectors.

The aim is to use government R&D and demonstration investments and corporate talent to make clean energy solutions more affordable, accessible and attractive than their alternatives by 2030. Mission Innovation is expected to invest at least 250 billion dollars this decade in clean energy innovation.

JEFFREY SACHS, PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF COLUMBIA

Pursuing his agenda at COP26, Minister Juan Carlos Jobet participated in the panel on “the role of green finance to achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals”, a body he shared with Jeffre Sachs, Columbia University professor and subject matter expert. The scholar stressed and reiterated the importance of talking about three types of financing to deal with the climate crisis: “One for energy transformation, another for adaptation and resilience, and a third for responding to losses and damage caused by natural disasters ”.

Jobet, for his part, was adamant: “Without funding, climate change will not change. There is money, but the challenge is how to direct those resources to the right projects, to the right place with the right technology ”.

To see the transmission, you can access the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34QL-GYrsaM