Launch of Korea-US 'Clean Energy High-Level Dialogue'... Agreement to Strengthen Cooperation on Nuclear Power and Critical Minerals

Follow-up Measures After the 'Korea-UK Clean Energy Partnership' Agreement

The governments of Korea and the United Kingdom have launched the 'Clean Energy High-Level Dialogue' and agreed to strengthen cooperation in areas such as nuclear power, critical minerals, offshore wind power, and clean hydrogen.

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced that Choi Nam-ho, the 2nd Vice Minister, held the Korea-UK Clean Energy High-Level Dialogue in Seoul on the 8th together with Jeremy Pocklington, the UK Deputy Minister for Energy Security and Net Zero.

This Clean Energy High-Level Dialogue was held as a follow-up measure to the 'Korea-UK Clean Energy Partnership' agreement signed during the Korea-UK summit at the end of November last year.

Choi Nam-ho, 2nd Vice Minister of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. (File photo)

Amid recent geopolitical conflicts and the climate crisis causing instability in energy supply chains, both countries recognized the critical importance of bilateral cooperation centered on clean energy to accelerate energy security and carbon neutrality. To this end, the two countries agreed to ▲promote new nuclear power cooperation centered on the nuclear industry dialogue body ▲establish a working-level meeting on critical minerals ▲promote public-private dialogue to expand large-scale offshore wind power ▲expand cooperation in clean hydrogen and energy technology development ▲collaborate on decarbonization measures in the industrial and power generation sectors through zero-carbon energy. Additionally, the two countries discussed the necessity of implementing cooperation at the G20 and accelerating the expansion of clean energy and transition from fossil fuels agreed upon at the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28).

Vice Minister Choi expressed, "As Korea possesses clean energy manufacturing technology, let us closely cooperate in the process of industrial development and global clean energy expansion between the two countries." He added, "By regularizing the Korea-UK Clean Energy High-Level Dialogue held this time, it will serve as a stepping stone to leap into a 'global strategic partnership' agreed upon at the summit, and it will become an opportunity for the two countries to emerge as key partners in global carbon neutrality response and energy security in the future."

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