SED-NEW Structure of the Committee on Sustainable Energy

The Group of Experts on Cleaner Electricity Systems focuses on activities that significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired electricity generation. These activities are developed and implemented with the active participation of UNECE member States, representatives from the energy and financial sectors and civil society, independent experts and academia.

The Group of Experts on Coal Mine Methane and Just Transition promotes efficient environmentally sustainable transition of industries along the coal value chain ensuring the reduction of associated greenhouse gas emissions and social equity of the process through substantive, results-oriented activities that may help the recovery and use of methane in order to reduce the risks of explosions in coal mines in the context of  climate change mitigation and  to contribute to sustainable development, including the support of communities, local economies and the environment in the just transition process