Created in the wake of the 1992 Rio Summit, the e8 is a non-profit international organization, composed of 10 leading electricity companies from the G8 countries, whose mission is to play an active role in global electricity issues within the international framework and to promote sustainable energy development through electricity sector projects and human capacity building activities in developing and emerging nations worldwide.
Implementing sustainable energy development within the international framework on climate change, the e8, in partnership with UN experts and local partners, develops renewable energy projects and human capacity building activities across regions, contributing to bringing energy to some of the two billion people around the world still without access to this essential resource while mitigating the effects of green house gas emissions on climate.
The e8 Summit in Rome, Italy, June 4, 2009.
The e8 chairmen and guest chairmen of CFE (Mexico) and Eletrobras (Brazil) met in Rome to discuss the role of the electricity sector as a key actor in a solution to climate change in a context of global financial crisis and negotiations towards a new international agreement on climate change.
At the Summit, the e8 chairmen and chairmen of CFE, Eletrobras, Eskom (South Africa) and SGCCC (China) put forward a statement of mutual interest and collaboration.
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e8 Annual Activity Report 2008-2009
Deployment of Climate Change Mitigating Technologies
Major global environmental and social issues that affect the electric utility industry are considered to be the top priorities of the e8.
The issues of sustainable development, climate change, social trust, and internationalisation are the focus of the e8's actions.