GWEC and Informa join forces to create world leading wind energy events
GWEC and Informa Markets have announced a series of wind power and energy transition events from 2021 onwards.
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UK, London: The Global Wind Energy Council (“GWEC”) and Informa Markets have announced a series of wind power and energy transition events from 2021 onwards.
Informa’s world-class expertise in organising live and digital events, will strongly propel GWEC’s mission of developing new and emerging markets for wind energy, scale the industry’s geographic footprint and foster dynamic debates among global stakeholders. These events also present an opportunity for industry and governments in critical climate action regions to discuss green economic recovery from COVID-19 and pathways to “build back better”.
The partnership capitalises on the immense growth of the wind industry in recent years, and the step change required in investment and supportive policy to deploy the necessary volumes of wind energy to meet decarbonisation scenarios and keep global warming below 1.5 °C pre-industrial levels.
Ben Backwell, CEO of GWEC, stated: “Events play a crucial role in bringing together investors, government and the supply chain to grow the wind industry around the world. This partnership between GWEC and Informa Markets will allow us to carry out an acceleration in terms of scale and footprint, allowing us to create world leading conferences and events in key regions such as Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa.”
The schedule of events for 2021 aims to build on Informa Markets’ existing live events and digital expertise in the sector and GWEC’s ongoing market development work in emerging markets for renewable energy as is already the case with Brazil WindPower, Latin America’s largest wind event co-organised yearly by GWEC and Informa. This will enable the scaling of these efforts to a regional level, convening a wider group of stakeholders across industry, corporate buyers, financiers, government and climate leaders.
It will also see GWEC and Informa Markets hold a landmark Global Net-Zero Summit, to bring together a wide array of stakeholders including corporates and policy makers ahead of the COP26 Conference.
Gareth Rapley, Group Director at Informa Markets commented “As we have seen through 2020, there is an increased commitment from governments such as China, Japan, South Korea and recently the UK’s 10-point plan towards a green recovery, along with leading businesses to achieve Net-Zero targets. We are excited to play our role in partnership with GWEC, to help drive these plans forward and into action.” Find out more: www.gwec.net.
Source: GWEC