IAEA Director General Grossi and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo today officially announced the first-ever Nuclear Energy Summit, to be held in Brussels in March next year. The announcement came at a COP28 event in Dubai where more than 20 countries on four continents pledged to triple nuclear power generating capacity by 2050 to achieve global climate goals.
The summit featuring world leaders will highlight the role of nuclear energy in addressing the global challenges to reduce the use of fossil fuels, enhance energy security and boost economic development.
Amid the rising wave of international support for scaling up the use of nuclear power, Mr Grossi opened the IAEA’s Atoms4Climate pavilion at COP28 on 1 December, kicking off almost two weeks of events aimed at highlighting the role of nuclear technology and science in climate change mitigation and adaptation. The event featured a lively conversation between Mr Grossi and Isabelle Boemeke, also known as Isodope, the world’s first nuclear influencer.
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