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The 13th EMM
APEC Energy Ministers last met in Seattle, United States, on 13-16 August 2023. They issued the Chair’s Statement of the 13th APEC Energy Ministerial Meeting instead of the Ministerial Declaration due to a lack of consensus among members. Ministers endorsed the Non-Binding Just Energy Transition Principles, and tasked the Energy Working Group to establish a Just Energy Transition Initiative. Nearly all APEC economies supported a new collective aspirational goal for the power sector of approximately 70% of electricity generated by carbon free and carbon neutral sources for the APEC region by 2035, and committed to working to achieve their respective announced pledges that collectively comprise at least a 50% reduction methane emissions in the fossil energy sector from 2020 levels by 2030.
