They have done this with the aim of “achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions, maintaining a 1.5ºC limit on temperature rise and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.”
More than twenty countries agreed at the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) to triple the current global nuclear energy capacity by 2050.
The signatory countries, including, among others United States, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Ghana, Hungary, Japan, South Korea, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdomcommit to “work together to advance the global goal of tripling nuclear energy capacity between 2020 and 2050, recognizing the different internal circumstances of each participant.”
Likewise, they also commit to take national measures to ensure that “nuclear power plants operate responsibly and in accordance with the highest standards of safety, sustainability, security and non-proliferation,” and that fuel waste is managed responsibly in the long term. .
The signatories take the opportunity to invite shareholders of the World Bank, international financial institutions and regional development banks to promote the inclusion of nuclear energy in the energy lending policies of their organizations.
All this given the “key role of nuclear energy in achieving these objectives”. zero net greenhouse gas emissionsmaintain a 1.5°C limit on temperature increase and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals,” said the joint statement published by the US Department of Energy, in which the signatories ask other countries to endorse this statement.
Source: EITB
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