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Oman and IEA to host Ministerial Dialogue on clean energy transitions and economic resilience
Climate change particularly affects the oil and gas producing economies of the Middle East and North Africa.
Ministers from the region will explore ways to leverage clean energy transitions. Ensuring broader economic resilience as a significant topic will be held at a Ministerial Dialogue on 9 September. Ministry of Energy and Minerals of the Sultanate of Oman and the International Energy Agency organises the Dialogue.
The Ministerial Dialogue – which Oman’s Minister of Energy and Minerals Mohammed bin Hamad Al-Rumhi and IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol shall co-host – will address the particular challenges that energy transitions present for economies in the Middle East and North Africa. At the same time, the tangible opportunities for those countries to increase economic resilience and prosperity for the region and its people will be the topic.
IEA 2050 targets; oil and gas producing countries
Not only is the Middle East and North Africa region warming at a significantly faster rate than the global average, but the region’s exports are uniquely vulnerable to energy market shifts resulting from global efforts to mitigate climate change. If oil and gas demand were to decline as much as implied in the IEA’s Global Roadmap to Net-Zero Emissions by 2050, then producer economies’ net incomes from oil and gas could fall to just one-fifth of their current levels in the next three decades. The loss of these revenues would pose substantial risks for undiversified economies.
Neverthless, economies in the region are well placed to leverage their existing capacities and competitive advantages in clean energy technologies. This could help satisfy their own growing energy demand and potentially open new export opportunities for emerging low-carbon energy sectors, such as hydrogen. Countries in the region have some of the best solar resources in the world, and recent prices obtained at auction attest to significant further potential. Meanwhile, growing energy demand in the region could be mitigated through increased investment in energy efficiency, which would have the added benefit of creating high-value private-sector jobs, a crucial consideration in a region where high unemployment is a serious issue.
The Ministerial Dialogue on 9 September will address these and other key themes for the region. More details will be announced in due course.
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