Parliamentarians’ Roundtable on South Asian Regional Energy cooperation’ was organized on 8th November during CoP 27 at Sharm el Shaikh, Egypt. Parliamentarians from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan participated and resolved to work jointly to further strengthen regional energy cooperation and transition, to mitigate climate change and promote energy security.
In the day-long meeting, members of parliaments interacted with climate change and energy experts from IRENA, European Climate Foundation, TERI, University College London, USAID and Climate Parliament. A wide range of issues were discussed like, the role of energy co-operation in advancing energy transition, importance of networks in encouraging government action and alleviating political and policy challenges, European grid interconnection and power market and lessons learned for regional energy cooperation, energy transition in South Asia and regional progress on energy cooperation, energy trade in South Asia and the need for political engagement, current challenges to regional energy cooperation, the best practices and experiences and parliamentary advocacy, and the future parliamentary actions for regional energy cooperation.
The Parliamentarians would also give feedback to their national delegations representing their countries at COP on the issues discussed and the key recommendations taken out in the meeting.
