Global Renewables Alliance

Look, on the electrify everything, you basically open a door that is already open.

One of our latest episodes was with Bruce Douglas and he's the CEO of the Global Renewables Alliance and obviously pro-renewables and pro-electrification a lot.

So it makes sense.

The thing is, our country is ready and our technology is ready, available to be deployed.

Hello, I'm Michael Liebreich, and this is Cleaning Up.

Today, I'm delighted to introduce a new guest host to the show, Anna Rovzar, Chief of Staff at the Global Renewables Alliance.

Anna is based in Brussels and will be helping out hosting episodes across Europe, except for today's episode, which she filmed on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

For her first appearance as host, Anna sat down with Alexander Ducroux, former Prime Minister of Belgium and now Administer of the United Nations Development Programme, that's UNDP.

Hello, I'm Anna Rovzar, and this is Cleaning Up.

For listeners who don't know me yet, I'm a Brussels-based guest host for the show.

I'm also chief of staff at the Global Renewables Alliance.

And in the episodes that I host, I will do my best to bridge energy, climate, and leadership.

out in the cold.

Last Friday, I attended a forum organized by the Global Renewables Alliance, GRA, and the Global Wind Energy Council, GWEC, in the aftermath of the 44th ASEAN Ministers on Energy Meeting, AMEM, and the ASEAN Energy Business Forum, AEBF, held at the Philippine International Convention Center last week.

Due to a number of unavoidable commitments I was not able to attend the AMOM-EBF myself and had to rely on my vast network of spooks and informants for updates, so the Friday briefing added some valuable context to what I was hearing, plus the all-important joint statement issued by the ASEAN energy leaders at the conclusion of the AMOM.

As Friday's forum was organized by renewable energy leaders, there was obviously a clear angle to their focus of what they thought was important in the AMOM-EBF event, but to be fair, except for only mentioning nuclear energy and passing, it apparently was a much bigger topic in the main meetings.

I'm a wind guy, but I love solar as well.

And I've worked across, worked closely with other technologies as chair of the Global Renewables Alliance as well.

I mean, it seems to me, I mean, the first kind of 20, 30% of taking generation to renewables was relatively unproblematic.

Well, if I remember, yeah, it was never unproblematic, right? But relatively unproblematic.