Milestones and previous activities
2007: AU-EU Lisbon Summit
2010: First AEEP High Level Meeting (Vienna, Austria)
2012: 1st AEEP Stakeholder Forum (Cape Town, South Africa)
2013: AEEP National Energy Business Dialogue Forums
2014: Second AEEP High Level Meeting (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) & Launch of the AEEP Status Report
2015: New Steering Group Members, Ministerial Meeting (Rome, Italy)
2016: Mapping of Energy Initiatives and Programmes in Africa
2016: Second AEEP Stakeholder Forum (Milan, Italy)
2017: Ten Years AEEP
2018: Launch of High-level Platform for Sustainable Energy Investments in Africa (SEI Platform)
2019: Monitoring Progress of the AEEP 2020 Targets
2020: Recommendations of the Africa-Europe High-level Platform for Sustainable Energy Investments
2020: Green Hydrogen Policy Brief – Fuelling Human Well-being in Africa and Europe
2021: AEEP Forum – Aligning Energies for a Green and Prosperous Africa
2021: European Financial Flows on SDG7 to Africa Policy Brief
2022: Advancing the Green Gateway Between Africa and Europe
2022: European Financial Flows on SDG7 to Africa Policy Brief
High-level engagement of the AEEP since its establishment
From the 2007 AU-EU Lisbon Summit to its ten-year anniversary in 2017, the Africa-EU Energy Partnership has grown into one of the most active partnerships under the Joint Africa-EU Strategy. Since its establishment, the AEEP has ensured commitment at the highest political level: its High-Level Meetings in Vienna in 2010 and in Addis Ababa in 2014 – each bringing together more than 300 participants – are milestones of the African-European political dialogue on energy.
Energy – key topic in international policy discourse
As an agenda-setter, the AEEP has helped highlight the role of sustainable energy in Africa, actively engaging in key fora such as the UNFCCC COPs, G7, and G20 summits. The last decade has seen energy climb to the top of the political agenda, with initiatives such as the Africa Renewable Energy Initiative (AREI) growing out of the UNFCCC climate processes, SEforALL, and the adoption of SDG7. Since 2007, the AEEP has given a boost to such joint initiatives and to a common agenda. The AEEP Communiqué, endorsed at the G7 Energy Ministerial Meeting in Rome, Italy, in 2017, can certainly be counted as one of the most notable accomplishments.
Platform for High-level African and European collaboration on energy
Besides helping international debates and joint initiatives flourish, the Partnership has also acknowledged the importance of coordinating and aligning efforts. Since 2007 the Africa-EU Energy Partnership has convened numerous high-level events with African and European stakeholders, brought together key stakeholders to engage in the issues surrounding energy in Africa, supported the participation of key stakeholders in important dialogues, enabled exchange and learning, and established new goals and knowledge products to help inform African-European energy cooperation.
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