The Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) is ahigh-level global forum to promote policies and programsthat advance clean energy technology, to share lessonslearned and best practices, and to encourage the transitionto a global clean energy economy. At the United NationsFramework Convention on Climate Change conference of partiesin Copenhagen in December 2009, U.S. Secretary of EnergySteven Chu announced that he would host the first CleanEnergy Ministerial to bring together ministers withresponsibility for clean energy technologies from theworld s major economies and ministers from a select numberof smaller countries that are leading in various areas ofclean energy. Currently, the 23 governments participating inCEM initiatives are Australia, Brazil, Canada, China,Denmark, the European Commission, Finland, France, Germany,India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Norway,Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United ArabEmirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States, andcollectively account for 80 percent of global greenhouse gasemissions and 90 percent of global clean energy investment.
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