“Germany and Australia found bilateral energy and resource working group”

Germany and Australia have signed a letter of intent to intensify cooperation in the areas of energy and resources, the German economy ministry said in a press release. Rainer Baake, German state secretary in the economy ministry, and his Australian colleague Gordon de Brouwer signed the documents during the international conference Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue. Its central aim is “to support and speed up the transition to an environmentally friendly, secure and affordable energy supply” by increasing energy productivity and expanding renewable energy sources, the press release said. “The highly developed and engineered economies of Australia and Germany can learn a lot from each other in the essential areas of energy and resource supply,” Baake said.

Read the press release in English here.

For more information, see this CLEW selection of Quotes from the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue.