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World Energy Forum

Towards a new global energy civilization

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Chairman’s Welcome

Excellencies, Colleagues, and Friends!

I am delighted to welcome you to World Energy Forum!

World Energy Forum is the world's premier platform for energy leadership and is a call to global action for better and sustainable ways, and is to lead a planetary conversation on energy issues and to educate and campaign for accessible and sustainable energy that can fulfill the hopes and aspirations of all nations and peoples. World Energy Forum facilitates political will as well as research, technological advancement, finance, and capacity-building so as to achieve a new global civilization of peace and prosperity throughout the world.

It is my honor to invite you to join with us in this important and urgent undertaking!

Yours Faithfully,

Prof. Dr. Harold Hyun Suk Oh

Chairman of the Board and President

Our Mission

World Energy Forum is the world's premier platform for energy leadership and is to provide leadership to achieve a universal energy access to benefit all nations and peoples, and to provide leadership for cleaner and more sustainable energy, and to provide leadership in stewarding the natural environment throughout all energy practices so as to realize humanity's quest for a new sustainable civilization of peace and prosperity across the globe.

Our History

Pursuant to the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000, all 189 United Nations Member States at the time (there are 193 currently) adopted 8 Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015. Coming to the realization that meeting all Millennium Development Goals depends upon access to modern energy services which are a quintessential prerequisite to economic, social, and human development worldwide, under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Harold Hyun Suk Oh, the executives of the United Nations and the World Bank gathered together in 2007 and created World Energy Forum as a global body with the following primary objectives:

Providing leadership to achieve a universal energy access to benefit all nations and peoples
Providing leadership for world's transition to renewable and sustainable energy
Providing leadership to achieve sustainability throughout all human practices so as to facilitate the emergence of a new sustainable global civilization

Since its founding, World Energy Forum has achieved high-level leaders participation from governments, corporations, academic and financial institutions from across the globe and by doing so the organization has elevated the theme of “energy for all” as the highest political agenda and discourse globally.

Our Programs

World Energy Forum is the world's premier platform for energy leadership and is to provide leadership to achieve a universal energy access to benefit all nations and peoples.