Today and Monday, 4 May, Commissioner for Energy and Housing Dan Jørgensen will be in Paris to discuss solutions to the global transition towards clean energy with international partners and representatives of the French government.
Today, he will participate in the COP31–IEA High-Level Energy Transition Dialogue, the first in a series of dialogues in the lead-up to the UN’s COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye. The event brings together leading figures from governments, industry, finance and civil society from around the world, and will help shape the energy-related priorities, activities and outcomes at the next meeting of the UN. Commissioner Jørgensen is also holding meetings with the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Fatih Birol, and COP31 President-Designate Murat Kurum, Türkiye’s Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change. In the afternoon, he will also discuss the energy and economic consequences of the conflict in the Middle East with OECD senior officials, including OECD Secretary-General Matthias Cormann.
Solutions to address the current energy crisis and plans to boost Europe’s electrification will be at the core of his exchanges with French Minister of Economy, Finance, Industrial, Energy, and Digital Sovereignty, Roland Lescure, and with French Minister delegate for Energy, Maud Bregeon, on Monday.
On Monday, Commissioner Jørgensen will represent the Commission at an international meeting on methane, organised by the French G7 presidency. The EU is a global leader on methane abatement and has adopted the world’s very first comprehensive legislation that regulates methane emissions related to imports of oil, gas and coal.
The Commissioner will also meet with the new Mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, to discuss ways to tackle the housing crisis, as the Commission is working on the Affordable Housing Act to be presented later this year.
