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.
e8 Ifugao Mini-hydro Project Inauguration Ceremony-January 22, 2010, Manila, Philippines - Press Release
High-Level Meeting of Major International Organisations and the e8, December 14, 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark - Press Release
The e8-GEF-UNDESA-UNESCAP Financing Sustainable Electrification
South and South East Asia Dialogues, September 8-10, 2009, Bangkok, Thailand.
NEW- Publication
e8 Annual Activity Report 2008-2009
Deployment of Climate Change Mitigating Technologies
The Tuvalu Solar Power Project
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.