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The 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP29) will convene in November 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The event will be led by Azerbaijan Ecology Minister Mukhtar Babayev.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Wednesday, 10 April 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newspreparations-for-cop-29-underway-11669562

World leaders gathered in Brussels at the first ever Nuclear Energy Summit co-chaired by the Prime Minister of Belgium Alexander De Croo and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi. The Summit was the highest-level meeting to date exclusively focused on the topic of nuclear energy. It followed inclusion of nuclear energy in the Global Stocktake agreed at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai in December 2023 and the launch of the IAEA’s Atoms4NetZero initiative.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnuclear-energy-summit-attracts-world-leaders-11632691

Leaders and representatives from 32 countries at the Nuclear Energy Summit backed measures in areas such as financing, technological innovation, regulatory cooperation and workforce training to enable the expansion of nuclear capacity to tackle climate change and boost energy security.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Friday, 22 March 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Leaders-back-nuclear-at-summit

At the 28th Conference of the Parties to the original 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), 22 countries signed a declaration supporting tripling nuclear energy capacity by 2050. The document was signed by the heads of state, or senior officials, from Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Ghana, Hungary, Japan, South Korea, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the USA. China and Russia did not sign, although they have the world’s fastest growing and most ambitious nuclear power programmes.

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Wednesday, 06 December 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscop28-22-countries-target-tripling-global-nuclear-energy-capacity-by-2050-11347824

Twenty two countries have signed up to the goal of tripling global nuclear energy capacity by 2050, at the UN's COP28 climate change conference.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Sunday, 03 December 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Ministerial-declaration-puts-nuclear-at-heart-of-c

The nuclear industry has the solutions to assist end-users - from the shipping industry to data centres - in reducing their carbon emissions and meeting their decarbonisation goals, panellists at World Nuclear Symposium 2023 said.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Tuesday, 12 September 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-industry-ready-to-help-end-users-cut-emiss

Even oil-rich companies of Middle East are eying reactors, as more nations announce plans for SMRs Russian troops occupied the Zaporizhzhia nuclear station, which was damaged by shelling. File photo courtesy IAEA. 2022 was a year of mega milestones for nuclear energy.

Countries around the world turned to nuclear as a reliable low-carbon energy source as they looked for ways to wean themselves off Russian imports and lower carbon emissions.

New plants began operating, deals for small modular reactors were signed and countries announced ambitious plans for new-build.

On the political front, US president Joe Biden signed into law new legislation that will help to finance struggling nuclear reactors and could save dozens from being shut down early. In Europe, the nuclear industry celebrated when members of the European parliament decided to “follow the science” and support legislation which includes nuclear in the bloc’s sustainable finance taxonomy for green investment.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Original article: nucnet.org/news/five-major-developments-that-are-setting-the-stage-for-2023-and-beyond-1-1-2023

Saudi Arabia's Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud this week visited the Barakah nuclear power plant in the UAE. The minister said his visit to the Middle East's first operational multi-unit nuclear power plant "comes in line with the growing awareness of the importance of nuclear energy."

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Thursday, 18 November 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Saudi-minister-visits-Barakah

Construction of the third unit at the UAE's Barakah nuclear power plant has been completed, and the unit is on track to start up in 2023, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) has announced today on the sidelines of COP26 in Glasgow.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Friday, 05 November 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Third-unit-completed-at-Barakah

‘They did it in a way that is measurable and can be looked at by the rest of the international community’ Units 1 and 2 of the UAE's Barakah nuclear station are now both connected to the national grid. When Unit 2 of the four-unit Barakah nuclear power station in the United Arab Emirates was connected to the grid earlier this month, delivering its first megawatts of electricity, project owner Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) said the milestone took it another step closer to its goal of using nuclear to supply up to a quarter of the country’s electricity needs 24/7, while driving reductions in carbon emissions – the leading cause of climate change.

Unit 2’s grid connection came five months after Unit 1 became the first commercial nuclear power reactor in the Arab World to begin commercial operation.

For ENEC, these recent operational milestones show the world that the UAE is serious about efforts to use nuclear energy to further climate change mitigation efforts through the decarbonisation of the electricity sector. But the benefits of the Barakah project – one of the largest nuclear energy stations in the world – go deeper than that, with the facility providing energy security and powering social and economic growth by providing high-value jobs and supporting an entirely new industry. “The local supply chain is, and will continue to be essential for the operations and maintenance of Barakah over the coming 60 years.”

More than 2,000 UAE-based companies are part of the supply chain for Barakah and local contracts have been awarded to a value of $4.8bn. “The local supply chain is, and will continue to be essential for the operations and maintenance of Barakah over the coming 60 years,” ENEC told NucNet. “It will help ensure we have the localised services and components we need.”

Source: Nucnet
Date: Friday, 01 October 2021
Original article: nucnet.org/news/how-uae-nuclear-project-has-set-standard-for-newcomer-countries-9-2-2021