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GEI Initiative - Global Consensus

On September 26, 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed discussions on establishing Global Energy Interconnection, to facilitate efforts to meet global power demand with clean and green alternatives at the UN Sustainable Development Summit.

At the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation on May 14, 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for collective action “to seize opportunities presented by the new round of change in energy mix and the revolution in energy technologies to develop Global Energy Interconnection and achieve green and low-carbon development”.

Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed discussions on establishing Global Energy Interconnection at the UN Sustainable Development Summit

Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed a speech at the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation

Aligning with Relevant Framework of the UN

Aligning with Relevant Framework of the UN

On November 1, 2017, GEIDCO co-organized a high-level symposium (Global Energy Interconnection: Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals) with UNDESA at the UN headquarters and released GEI Action Plan to Promote the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, detailing Ten Actions and Five Mechanisms, in an effort to incorporate Global Energy Interconnection (GEI) into the framework for the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda.

In December 2018, the GEI Action Plan to Promote the Implementation of Paris Agreement was released at COP24, marking the integration of GEI into the framework of United Nations' implementation of Paris Agreement

In March 2019, the GEI Action Plan for Promoting Global Environmental Protection, an innovative environmental solution, was released at the fourth session of the UN Environment Assembly, marking the integration of GEI into the framework of United Nations environmental management.

From May 30-31 2019, the Global Conference on Scaling-up Energy Access and Finance in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) was held in Beijing. It was co-hosted by GEIDCO and UN-OHRLLS (UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States).

Incorporating Into Multilateral International Cooperation

Incorporating Into Multilateral International Cooperation

In May 2017, during the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, GEIDCO signed MoUs with UNDESA, UNESCAP, African Union, the League of Arab States and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCCIA), which were included in the list of achievements of the Forum, signaling GEI has been incorporated into the Belt and Road initiative.

At the 9th CEM held in May 2018, the Regional and Global Energy Interconnection (RGEI) Initiative was approved, with RGEI working group established and the operating agent located in GEIDCO.

In July 2018, three main outcome documents of the Eighth Ministerial Meeting of China-Arab States Cooperation Forum (CASCF), namely Beijing Declaration of the Eighth Ministerial Meeting of CASCF, 2018-2020 Action Plan of CASCF, Action Declaration for China and Arab States to Jointly Build “Belt and Road”, all have incorporated GEI initiative and proposed to further strengthen cooperation on GEI development.

On April 25th 2019, during the Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF), GEIDCO held a Showcase Event of GEIDCO Researches to align Global Energy Interconnection (GEI) with the Belt and Road Development. During the event, GEIDCO officially published the Research Report on the Belt and Road Energy Interconnection and the Development Report on Global Energy Interconnection for Promoting the Belt and Road and signed six cooperation agreements with the UN agencies, governments, international organizations and universities to jointly promote energy interconnection and the Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI) development. The achievement report and agreements have been included in the outcome list of the BRF forum on infrastructure connectivity.

António Guterres

António Guterres

Secretary General of United Nations

Global interconnectivity for energy to reach everybody in need is the center of the two concepts, i.e. sustainability and inclusivity, of our commitment to Agenda 2030 and combating climate change. GEI, with a strong call for enhancing international energy cooperation, is critical to the 2030 Agenda and to the implementation of the Paris Agreement.

Alpha Condé

Alpha Condé

President of Guinea

Building African Energy Interconnection will greatly promote the large-scale exploitation and utilization of clean energy in Africa and the interconnection of power grids, promote the development of mineral resources and deep processing industries, accelerate the integrated development of Africa into a clean, industrialized and electrified continent, and promote the implementation of the "Agenda 2063" of the African Union and the "Agenda 2030" of the United Nations.

Fatih Birol

Fatih Birol

Executive Director of International Energy Agency

The electric power will dominate the future. Building large-scale power transmission infrastructure is the key to solving problems related to future energy supply. Thus, it is needed to tap the potential of global power grid interconnection.

Jim Yong Kim

Jim Yong Kim

Former President of World Bank Group

GEI is an inspiring vision to bring great change to future energy development, and plays an important role in solving problems related with power shortage and poverty in Africa. As a result, the World Bank will keep an eye on the development of GEI.

Patricia Espinosa

Patricia Espinosa

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary

Building GEI was an ambitious vision and a world- leading development idea, which would be of great significance to the development of human society and strong testimony to China’s consistent role as a global leader. The interconnec-tion of power grid is not only a commercial act, but also an important measure and action that concerns human survival and our daily lives, as it plays a significant role in improving living environment and quality of life.

Abdel Fattah El-Sisi

Abdel Fattah El-Sisi

President of Egypt

Egypt attaches great importance to the development of energy and power infrastructure and renewable energy, and vigorously promotes interconnection with African and Arab countries.

Liu Zhenmin

Liu Zhenmin

United Nations Under-Secretary General

Global Energy Interconnection is an exceptional example of such global, multi-stakeholder partnership. GEI can dramati-cally speed up clean energy transitions across regions, while advancing clean energy access and addressing climate change. It also can drive new industries, new markets, more jobs, while reducing dependency on fossil fuels.

Frederick Musiiwa ·Makamure Shava

Frederick Musiiwa ·Makamure Shava

Vice Chairman-in-office of United Nations General Assembly

The Action Plan is comprehensively aligned to the “2030 Agenda”. It is an inspiring innovation that helps to deliver all sustainable development goals.

Denis Sassou-Nguesso

Denis Sassou-Nguesso

President of Republic of the Congo

Congo-Brazzaville attaches great importance to regional energy interconnection and is willing to actively support GEIDCO’s effort to deepen research on developing and transmitting hydropower in the lower reaches of the Congo River.

Boungnang Vorachith

Boungnang Vorachith

Chairman of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and Lao’s President

I appreciate and support the “Belt and Road” Initiative and the initiative of building GEI. China and the Laos have established comprehensive strategic cooperation partnership. We are willing to continue to deepen our cooperation with China in the energy sector to build the Lao PDR into a “storage battery” of ASEAN.

Erna Solberg

Erna Solberg

Prime Minister of Norway

Norway strongly supports sustainable global development and hopes to carry out more cooperative projects with GEIDCO.

António Costa

António Costa

Prime Minister of Portugal

The GEI initiative is closely related to Portugal. Portugal hopes to rely on grid interconnection to achieve optimal allocation of resources and enhance the return to investments.

Bertie Ahern

Bertie Ahern

Former Prime Minister of Ireland

GEI will change the world. European grid interconnection will bring both economic and social benefits to Europe. Ireland is willing to take efforts to accelerate the strategic imple-mentation of GEI projects in Europe and other parts of the world.

Miguel Arias Cañete

Miguel Arias Cañete

European Commissioner of Climate Action and Energy

Europe is strengthening the interconnection of grids between countries, focusing on promoting African countries’ connection with Europe, and promoting the development of clean energy to achieve carbon emission reduction targets.

Ahmed Aboul Gheit

Ahmed Aboul Gheit

Secretary-General of the Arab League

I fully endorse the China’s initiative and am willing to play the role of the Arab League platform in Arab countries to promote the concept of GEI, and have invited GEIDCO to participate in the 2018 Sino-Arab Cooperation Forum and the Arab League Minister of Energy Conference.

Eduardo Frei

Eduardo Frei

Former President of Chile

Energy connectivity allows countries to coordinate and com-plement with each other, so as to make energy supply safer, promote the efficient use of clean energy and address the challenges of climate change. We are willing to cooperate with GEIDCO to realize the goal of building GEI.

Kwesi Quartey

Kwesi Quartey

Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission

The African Union Commission will formulate effective policies to promote clean energy development and energy infrastructure construction, accelerate the establishment of transnational electricity power markets, and facilitate transnational electricity power trading.

Michael B. McElroy

Michael B. McElroy

Tenure Professor at Harvard University Harvard-China Project Chairman

GEI is a far-sighted initiative and have bright prospects. Further hoped that China could continue to make further contributions in clean energy transformation and climate change solutions, and would like to carry out extensive cooperation with GEIDCO.

Dame Ann Dowling

Dame Ann Dowling

President of The Royal Academy of Engineering, UK

The China’s initiative will have a revolutionary impact on world development.

Li Yining

Li Yining

Prominent Chinese Economist

GEI is an important platform for the transformation of the world economy. It is a systematic solution to the development of the low-carbon economy and energy transformation. It will also become a new engine of the world economic growth.

Michael R. Bloomberg

Michael R. Bloomberg

United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Action Founder of Bloomberg L.P.

We will focus on the world of energy restructuring,clean energy development, the GEI construction and other fields, and carry out forward- looking research with GEIDCO.