Energy Charter Treaty

23 International Energy Charter • The Joint Statement by the G8 Energy Ministers Meeting in Rome on 25 May 2009, where the G8 Energy Ministers, the European Commissioner for Energy, and the Energy Ministers of Algeria, Australia, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Korea, Libya, Mexico, Nigeria asked the Energy Charter Secretariat and International Financial Institutions to prepare a strategy for the development of energy networks and corridors assuring transit towards the integration of national energy markets in Africa, while identifying financing mechanisms; • The Rome Statement adopted by the Energy Charter Conference on 9 December 2009 to address global energy challenges in the framework of the modernisation of the Energy Charter Process; • The Agreements of the United Nations Climate Change Conference reached in Cancun on 11 December 2010, in which the international community agreed on a set of significant decisions to address the long-term challenge of climate change collectively and comprehensively and that the parties should take urgent action to meet this long-term goal with a view to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions so as to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2°C above pre-industrial levels; • The International Energy Forum Charter approved and signed at the IEF Ministerial Meeting held in Riyadh on 22 February 2011 demonstrating a reinforced political commitment to an open global energy dialogue among the energy consuming and energy producing members of the IEF, including transit States, in order to ensure global energy security; • The objectives under the global “Sustainable Energy for All” (SE4All) initiative of the UN of September 2011 and the “2014-2024 World Decade for Sustainable Energy” aiming to achieve universal energy access, improve energy efficiency and increase the use of renewable energy; • The objectives under the “EU-Africa Energy Partnership”; • The Doha Declaration adopted at the First Summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum on 15 November 2011, which called for promotion and development of new and effective channels of dialogue between natural gas producers and consumers, through international and regional energy organisations and for a, for the purpose of ensuring technology transfer, market transparency, stability, and growth for the benefit of all. • The conclusions of the Council of the European Union of 24 November 2011 on strengthening the external dimension of the EU energy policy