New York, September 2025
Hosted by Katie White MP, UK Minister for Climate and Energy Security, Ministers and senior representatives from across the Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP) came together to discuss how the partnership can ramp up ambition, visibility, and collective progress toward aligning public finance with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
The roundtable highlighted ongoing need for the CETP to demonstrate strong climate leadership, in light of recent evidence that found CETP signatories have collectively cut their international public support for fossil fuels by up to 78% since 2021. Participants stressed that the partnership’s unique focus on international public finance remains essential in a challenging geopolitical and fiscally constrained environment – and that the CETP’s voice must be amplified further.
“We know this isn’t easy – but it’s essential to keep pushing forward and signals must remain strong,” said one participant, reflecting a common call for greater unity and visibility.
Strengthening the narrative: opportunity, benefits, and delivery
Delegates emphasized the need to communicate the economic opportunity brought by clean energy, while acknowledging persistent obstacles such as infrastructure gaps and political pushback.
Participants shared examples of success — from national energy transition milestones to effective public finance instruments — and discussed how the CETP can better showcase real-world progress, and highlight actions already delivering results, bolstering ambition worldwide.
Sharing expertise was viewed as a key benefit of the partnership, including policy, regulatory, and technical cooperation to help unlock capital for global clean energy deployment.
Looking ahead, the roundtable focused on collaboration into major milestones towards COP30, COP31, and beyond.