As the world grapples with the growing impacts of climate change, IAEA Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi will join global leaders and stakeholders at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), or COP29 Conference of the Parties, to highlight the broad scope of climate change. The potential of nuclear solutions for climate change mitigation, adaptation and monitoring.

The IAEA will showcase nuclear solutions for climate action at nearly 40 events at COP29, which will take place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 11 to 22 November 2024. The agency’s Atoms4Climate pavilion will feature an exhibition on nuclear applications, and IAEA experts will be on hand to answer questions about how nuclear energy contributes to net-zero emissions and how nuclear science can solve climate-related challenges to food security, water resources and ocean health.

COP29 will build on the global consensus emerged at COP28 in Dubai; where the Global Stocktake marked a historic turning point, calling for accelerating the deployment of nuclear energy, alongside other low-emission technologies, to help achieve deep and rapid decarbonization.

IAEA Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi said ahead of COP29: “At COP28, the world agreed that nuclear energy should be part of the transition to net zero.” “We know that investment in nuclear power can lower grid costs and accelerate the deployment of intermittent clean energy sources like wind and solar. “As the world moves from consensus to construction, the IAEA supports emerging countries in establishing safe, secure, protected and sustainable nuclear energy programs.”

COP29 is also a follow-up to the first Nuclear Energy Summit, organized by the IAEA and the Belgian Government in Brussels in March 2024, where leaders of more than 30 countries reaffirmed their commitment to nuclear energy as a way to reduce carbon emissions and meet development. targets.