Logo: Africa-EU Energy Partnership (AEEP)

Africa-EU Energy Partnership (AEEP) | First High Level Meetingof the Africa-EU Energy PartnershipVienna, 2010

Skip navigation
 

End of navigation

First High Level Meeting
of the Africa-EU Energy Partnership
Vienna, 2010

The First High Level Meeting (HLM) of the Africa-EU Energy Partnership (AEEP) successfully concluded.

The host country of the Meeting, Austria, represented by Dr Michael Spindelegger, Federal Minister for European and International Affairs welcomed the Co-Chairs – African Union Commissioner Dr Elham M.A. Ibrahim – EU-Commissioner for Energy, Günther Oettinger - EU-Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs – Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development from Mauritius, Devanand Virahsawmy – and Parliamentary State Secretary Gudrun Kopp for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Together with Ministers and high level representatives from 24 European and 33 African countries, they adopted concrete goals for the future of the Partnership. Later, European Commissioner Andris Piebalgs launched the Partnership’s first initiative, the Africa-EU Renewable Energy Cooperation Programme (RECP).

Altogether, more than 300 participants at the conference discussed the issues of energy security, energy access, renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Conference Documentation

Conference documentation by IISD (International Institute for Sustainable Development) – Reporting Services

English (7.9 MB), French (4.5 MB)

Impressions

Photographs from the first conference day, 14 September 2010.

Photographs from the second conference day, 15 September 2010.

High Level Participants and Speakers

Dr Kandeh K. Yumkella

Director-General, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO)

High Level Participants and Speakers

H.E. Alemayehu Tegenu

Minister of Mines and Energy, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

High Level Participants and Speakers

H.E. Jean-Louis Borloo

Minister for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Sea, Green Technology and Climate Negotiations, French Republic

High Level Participants and Speakers

H.E. Emmanuel Buah

Deputy Minister of Energy, Republic of Ghana

High Level Participants and Speakers

H.E. Simon D'Ujanga

State Minister for Energy and Mineral Development, Republic of Uganda

High Level Participants and Speakers

H.E. Dr Elham M.A. Ibrahim

Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy, African Union Commission

High Level Participants and Speakers

H.E. Teneng Mba Jaiteh

Deputy Minister for Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Republic of the Gambia

High Level Participants and Speakers

H.E. Gudrun Kopp

Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Federal Republic of Germany

High Level Participants and Speakers

H.E. Ahmed Haj Ali

Minister of Energy and Mines, State of Eritrea

High Level Participants and Speakers

H.E. Tabe Eugène

Minister of Petrol and Energy, Republic of Chad

High Level Participants and Speakers

H.E. Dammipi Noupokou

Minister of Mines and Energy, Togolese Republic

High Level Participants and Speakers

H.E. Elizabeth Dipuo Peters

Minister of Energy, Republic of South Africa

High Level Participants and Speakers

H.E. Andris Piebalgs

Commissioner for Development, European Commission

High Level Participants and Speakerso

H.E. Dr Michael Spindelegger

Federal Minister for European and International Affairs, Republic of Austria

High Level Participants and Speakers

H.E. Lamine Thioune

General Secretary of the Ministry of Energy, Republic of Senegal

High Level Participants and Speakers

H.E. Devanand Virahsawmy

Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Republic of Mauritius

High Level Participants and Speakers

H.E. Günther Oettinger

Commissioner for Energy, European Commission

High Level Participants and Speakers

H.E. Kiraitu Murungi

Minister of Energy, Republic of Kenya

High Level Participants and Speakers

H.E. Jean-Chrysostome Mekondongo

Deputy Minister of Mines, Energy and Water, Central African Republic

High Level Participants and Speakers

H.E. Gilbert Tshiongo Tshibinkubula wa Tumba

Minister of Energy, Democratic Republic of the Congo

High Level Participants and Speakers

H.E. Ali Ahmed Osman

State Minister of Petroleum, Republic of the Sudan

High Level Participants and Speakers

H.E. Eng. Abulqasim MohD. O’nies

Chairman of the General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL), Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

High Level Participants and Speakers

Dr Christoph Leitl

President of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber and Chairman of the Global Chamber Platform, Republic of Austria

High Level Participants and Speakers

H.E. Tomáš Dub

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic

High Level Participants and Speakers

H.E. Monyane Moleleki

Minister of Natural Resources, Kingdom of Lesotho

  • Austrian Development Cooperation, Republic of Austria
  • Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Federal Republic of Germany
  • Ministry of Energy and Public Utilities, Republic of Mauritius
  • Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia