Mission Innovation (MI) is a global initiative of 22 countries and the European Commission (on behalf of the EU) partnering to reinvigorate and accelerate clean energy innovation with the objective of making clean energy more widely affordable. Mission Innovation recognises that accelerating widespread clean energy innovation is an indispensable part of an effective, long-term global response to the climate challenge, necessary to provide affordable and reliable energy for everyone and to promote economic growth, and critical for energy security. Member countries, representing 58% of the world population and over 80% of global clean energy research budgets, have committed to seeking to double their government investment in clean energy research and innovation over five years to 2021. They are also encouraging greater levels of private sector investment and partnership in transformative clean energy technologies.
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Launch
Mission Innovation was announced by 20 world leaders, including President Obama, President Hollande and Prime Minister Modi, at the 21st Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) on 30 November 2015. It was created to accelerate widespread clean energy innovation and to support the Paris Agreement's goal to limit the rise in global temperatures to well below 2?C. In parallel, Bill Gates launched an initiative called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which brings together a group of private investors and global corporations in the energy field committed to accelerating the transfer of cutting-edge, government-funded research and clean energy innovations from the laboratory to market.The Breakthrough Energy Coalition created Breakthrough Energy Ventures, an investor-led fund, to provide patient, risk-tolerant capital to build the new, cutting-edge companies that will deliver on that promise.
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Mission Innovation's Action Plan
At the 2nd Mission Innovation Ministerial, members adopted an Action Plan aimed at demonstrating progress through individual country programmes and collaborative efforts towards achieving the MI goals.
By the end of 2021 MI will have helped deliver:
- A substantial boost in public-sector investment in clean energy R&D at the national level of MI members
- Increased private sector engagement and investment in energy innovation
- Many new or strengthened voluntary cross-border networks and partnerships on energy innovation, greater engagement from innovators
- Greater awareness amongst MI members and the wider clean energy community of the transformational potential of energy innovation
Baseline and doubling plans
One of the goals of MI is to substantially boost public-sector investment in clean energy research and development (R&D) at the national level of MI members. Each Mission Innovation member country--according to its own priorities, policies, processes, and laws--independently determines the best use of its R&D funding and defines its own R&D priorities and path to reach the doubling goal. Altogether, more than USD $35 billion in additional clean energy R&D is committed by Mission Innovation members over the five years.
Innovation Challenges
Beyond the quantitative goal to double clean energy research and innovation investments, Mission Innovation has launched a number of initiatives to boost the impact of these investments. Mission Innovation members have identified seven global calls to actions, or "Innovation Challenges," where increased international attention is required. Its Innovation Challenges cover the entire spectrum of RD&D; from early stage research needs assessments to technology demonstration projects. The seven Innovation Challenges include:
- Smart Grid Innovation Challenge - to enable future grids that are powered by affordable, reliable, decentralised renewable electricity systems.
- Off-Grid Access to Electricity Innovation Challenge - to develop systems that enable off-grid households and communities to access affordable and reliable renewable electricity.
- Carbon Capture Innovation Challenge - to enable near-zero CO2 emissions from power plants and carbon intensive industries.
- Sustainable Biofuels Innovation Challenge - to develop ways to produce at-scale widely affordable, advanced biofuels for transportation and industrial applications.
- Converting Sunlight into Storable Fuel Innovation Challenge - to discover affordable ways to convert sunlight into storable solar fuels.
- Clean Energy Materials Innovation Challenge - to accelerate the exploration, discovery, and use of new high-performance, low-cost clean energy materials, as well as to automate the processes needed to integrate these materials into new technologies."
- Affordable Heating and Cooling of Buildings Innovation Challenge - to make low-carbon heating and cooling affordable to everyone.
Engagement in an Innovation Challenge is entirely voluntary and is built around a coalition of mutually interested Mission Innovation members. With sufficient interest from MI members, new Innovation Challenges could be launched in the future.
Organization
High-level leadership is provided by member governments' Ministers with responsibility for clean energy innovation. A Mission Innovation Steering Committee, composed of member government representatives, provides strategic guidance to foster implementation of an Enabling Framework. Core administrative functions are carried out by the MI Secretariat, which supports the work of the Steering Committee and leads on communications, information-sharing between members and tracking the progress of Mission Innovation. Mission Innovation's Action Plan objectives are delivered through several Sub-Groups organized around specific tasks:
- Analysis and Joint Research: This Sub-Group helps foster a common understanding of clean energy innovation needs across MI countries to provide insight for countries' national plans and to identify potential areas for collaboration. Leveraging the combined knowledge, capabilities, and resources of members helps accelerate progress and amplify outcomes.
- Business and Investor Engagement: This Sub-Group assists MI countries in identifying business opportunities and engaging the private sector. This helps improve understanding of clean energy innovation needs and perspectives, and encourages investments that expand and enhance the innovation pipeline. Innovation starts with government support for R&D, but it is businesses, entrepreneurs, and investors that turn innovations into products and companies that change the world.
- Ministerial Planning Team:The Ministerial Planning Team (MPT) subgroup provides strategic political guidance and direction for the annual Mission Innovation Ministerial meetings.
Partnerships & private sector engagement
Mission Innovation aims to create new, or strengthened, voluntary cross-border networks and partnerships on energy innovation.
Focusing on early-stage technology development coming out of Mission Innovation countries, the Breakthrough Energy Coalition committed to make risk-tolerant investments in next generation technologies. Additionally at the One Planet Summit held in Paris on 12th December 2017, Bill Gates, on behalf of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, announced new partnerships with five Mission Innovation Countries (Canada, European Commission, France, Mexico, United Kingdom). Through these partnerships, the Coalition will work with each country to test and refine a new approach to public-private collaboration in order to support low-carbon energy investing. A new collaboration between Mission Innovation and the World Economic Forum (WEF) was announced at the 2nd MI Ministerial in Beijing, China. The collaboration is structured around three main pillars:
- Engagement of World Economic Forum members and partners with MI, including through specific, commonly identified Innovation Challenges. Initially this work will focus on three of the seven Challenges: Carbon Capture, Clean Energy Materials, and Affordable Heating and Cooling of Buildings--areas that are most promising for greater public-private cooperation to help develop and unleash new technologies into the market. Additional areas of cooperation may be identified over time.
- Collaboration on joint high-level platforms for strategic public-private dialogue through a series of events to advance clean energy innovation and investment. For 2017, this included the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions, 27-29 June in Dalian, China, and the Strategic Dialogues on Energy Futures, 12-13 September in Mexico City.
- Public-private collaboration on knowledge, research, and technology development on clean energy innovation and information sharing. In particular, the collaboration will explore new and existing models for innovation where public and private sector organizations can boost their impact.
In Davos, Switzerland, at the 2018 annual World Economic Forum, Mission Innovation reaffirmed the strong partnership established with the WEF at the 2nd MI Ministerial in Beijing. Mission Innovation and WEF remain committed to pursue concrete opportunities for real change to present at the 3rd MI Ministerial this year in Malmö. To achieve its objectives, Mission Innovation also works closely with a number of international bodies such as the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
Ministerial meeting
Mission Innovation Ministers gather every year to take stock of the progress and plan ahead.
The inaugural Mission Innovation Ministerial (MI-1) was held in San Francisco, California, on June 1-2, 2016. Members' provided transparent information about their commitment to seek to double public spending in clean energy RD&D over 5 years: from approximatively USD 15 billion a year to approximatively USD 30 billion, by 2021, with an overview of the technological focus areas of interest to each member.
The second MI Ministerial (MI-2) took place in Beijing on June 6-8, 2017 and enabled MI to enter a more operational phase: a work program was endorsed by Ministers and published with a high level Action Plan, defining MI goals and the strategy to achieve them. At this Ministerial, Mission Innovation joined forces with the World Economic Forum members and partners to drive private sector involvement, public-private partnerships, and knowledge sharing around public-private research and technology development.
In May 2018, the European Commission together with Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and the Nordic Council of Ministers will co-host the 3rd Mission Innovation Ministerial (MI-3) in Malmö, Sweden. This Ministerial is expected to highlight concrete results being delivered through MI, create engagement and build momentum towards clean energy acceleration, with a strong focus on private sector engagement.
Participating countries
The following are founder members:
See also
- Breakthrough Energy Coalition
External links
- World Economic Forum (WEF)
- International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
- International Energy Agency (IEA)
References
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