Pittsburgh to Host 2022 Meeting of World’s Energy Ministers
By Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Energy ministers from around the world will gather in Pittsburgh next year to forge a path on clean energy, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced from the global climate summit in Glasgow.
Then she threw her hands in the air and let out a “woo!”
The audience responded in kind.
“Coming from the industrial Midwest, it really makes me happy when communities like Pittsburgh get a great round of applause,” she said. “Obviously, it’s one of the best success stories for how clean energy creates jobs, how technology creates jobs and how a community can turn it around.”
The narrative of Pittsburgh as a city that built the world on its coal and steel, then nearly lost its way when those industries left before reinventing itself as a center of technology and innovation, will be on display as the 31 nations involved in the Clean Energy Ministerial and the Mission Innovation summit descend on the Steel City next Sept. 21-23.
Countries involved represent the lion’s share of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Ms. Granholm thanked the Steel City for “being a symbol of how we can turn it around” and introduced a video from Mayor Bill Peduto, who hailed Pittsburgh as “the obvious choice” for an event that puts the ideas of the global climate summit into action.
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“It’s critically important where this happens,” said Anna Siefken, executive director of the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University.
“The international audience will be of great interest to all of our faculty members,” she said. “It’ll be important to nonprofits in Pittsburgh and to businesses.”
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