{"id":9608,"date":"2012-04-04T03:48:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T01:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/london-clean-energy-talks-to-draw-22-countries\/"},"modified":"2012-04-04T03:48:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T01:48:54","slug":"london-clean-energy-talks-to-draw-22-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/london-clean-energy-talks-to-draw-22-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"London clean energy talks to draw 22 countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* 23 energy heads, including European Commission, to meet<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Brazil and UK expected to sign clean energy agreement<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* IEA to publish review of UK energy policy<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, April 3 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Energy Secretary Steven<br \/>\nChu, now seeking to coordinate a release of oil from emergency<br \/>\nreserves to subdue prices, will co-chair a meeting of energy<br \/>\nministers from 22 big economies in London later this month on<br \/>\ndeveloping cleaner technologies.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ministers from Australia, Canada, Europe and Japan will<br \/>\njoin counterparts from emerging economies Brazil, China, India,<br \/>\nIndonesia, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and the<br \/>\nUnited Arab Emirates at the April 25-27 gathering, a British<br \/>\ngovernment statement said on Tuesday. The European Commission<br \/>\nwill also be represented.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The talks on speeding development of technologies that limit<br \/>\ngreenhouse gas emissions and improve energy security will focus<br \/>\non how countries can collaborate on new investment and jobs in<br \/>\nareas such as energy efficiency, carbon capture and storage,<br \/>\nsolar and wind.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The gathering comes at a time when the United States,<br \/>\nBritain and France are seeking cooperation from other consumer<br \/>\nnations on a release of strategic oil reserves.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday in<br \/>\nRiyadh sought an assurance from Saudi King Abdullah that the<br \/>\nkingdom would not neutralise a release of inventories by<br \/>\nconsuming countries by cutting its oil production.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>During the meeting in London, Brazil and Britain are<br \/>\nexpected to sign an agreement on clean energy, while the<br \/>\nInternational Energy Agency (IEA) will publish a review of UK<br \/>\nenergy policy, the first since 2006.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* 23 energy heads, including European Commission, to meet * Brazil and UK expected to sign clean energy agreement * IEA to publish review of UK energy policy LONDON, April 3 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, now seeking to coordinate a release of oil from emergency reserves to subdue prices, will co-chair a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}