During the 29th U.N. Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan (COP 29), U.S. Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy John Podesta and National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi joined other endorsers of the Declaration to Triple Nuclear Energy to announce progress to advance the declaration and to welcome new endorsers. For its part, the United States announced new domestic nuclear energy deployment targets and a framework for action, which includes a target of 200 GW of new U.S. nuclear energy capacity by 2050 and outlines pathways and actions to meet this goal. Meeting this target would triple U.S. domestic nuclear energy capacity from current levels.
The Declaration recognizes the key role of nuclear energy in achieving global net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and keeping the 1.5-degree Celsius goal within reach. Participants commit to work together to triple nuclear energy capacity from 2020 levels by 2050. They further commit to take domestic actions to ensure nuclear power plants are operated responsibly and in line with the highest standards of safety, sustainability, security, and non-proliferation.
New endorsers of the Declaration include El Salvador, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Nigeria, and Türkiye. The Declaration was first announced at COP28 in Dubai with the following twenty-five endorsing countries from four continents: Armenia, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Ghana, Hungary, Jamaica, Japan, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, The Netherlands, Poland, Republic of Korea, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States. See the full text of the Declaration here.
The United States is committed to supporting the use of advanced nuclear technologies to power global decarbonization efforts and provide energy security to partners around the world.
