From offering clean energy to protecting water assets and creating smarter agriculture, nuclear science and expertise could make a big contribution to mitigating, monitoring and adapting to the impacts of local weather change. This is what the IAEA and companions demonstrated in a sequence of facet occasions all through the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP27, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

The IAEA-led occasion house #Atoms4Climate – the primary ever pavilion at a COP devoted to the purposes of nuclear science and expertise – featured greater than 40 events, all of which had been livestreamed.

IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi formally opened the #Atoms4Climate pavilion on Wednesday, 9 November, at an event that introduced collectively excessive stage representatives from governments, worldwide organizations, trade and civil society. The audio system included Matthew Opoku Prempeh, Ghana’s Minister of Energy; Kathryn Huff, US Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy; Cecilia Nicolini, State Secretary of Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Innovation from Argentina; Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO); Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director General of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); and others.

Mr Grossi’s message to leaders at COP was that nuclear science and expertise are a part of the answer to each mitigating greenhouse fuel emissions and adapting to local weather change impacts. “Nuclear is here. Nuclear is already part of the solution, and nuclear will continue to be in this path,” he stated.

The Director General participated in quite a few occasions organized within the framework of COP27. On 9 November, he talked about the problems of peace, non-proliferation, local weather change and power safety with William Kennedy, a senior government editor at Bloomberg News. On the identical day, he interviewed Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), after which led a panel to exchange opinions on the function of nuclear power in attaining web zero emissions.