UK Foreign Office Roundup for November 11: ASEAN Centre for Energy Action Plan Published Under the Global Clean Power Alliance
The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) updated the country action plan collection of the Global Clean Power Alliance (GCPA) finance mission on GOV.UK on November 11, formally publishing the action plan for the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE). The ASEAN Centre for Energy is the finance mission's first partner in Asia, and the plan sets out the priority areas where the mission will work with the centre to unlock private finance for Southeast Asia's clean energy goals.
The updated collection now covers ten partners: ASEAN, the African Union, Brazil, the Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Ethiopia, Morocco, Mozambique and Tanzania. The Foreign Office says each plan is demand-led and shaped by partner requests, with a focus on areas such as transmission and energy project readiness. The plans are complemented by a private finance-endorsed High-Quality Energy Investment Planning Roadmap, which sets out how emerging markets and developing economies can mobilise private finance at scale for clean energy transitions.
The publication follows the mission's expansion a day earlier. On November 10, at the 31st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP31) in Türkiye, the United Kingdom and Brazil jointly set out the finance mission's first-year progress and announced two new members, the ASEAN Centre for Energy and Ethiopia, with action plans for both due within the week. The centre's membership builds on work set out in June 2026 to integrate the Energy Transition Council into the finance mission and expand its reach into Asia.
On November 11 itself, the UK Pavilion at COP31 hosted a related event on grid development and clean electrification, exploring how governments, industry and investors can accelerate the financing and deployment of electricity grids. The ASEAN Centre for Energy partnership was spotlighted as part of that event, complementing wider UK efforts through the finance mission to mobilise investment into clean energy infrastructure.
The Global Clean Power Alliance was launched by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Brazilian President Lula at the G20 summit in November 2024. Its finance mission is co-led by the United Kingdom and Brazil and aims to scale clean energy investment in emerging markets and developing economies, in line with the Global Stocktake goals of tripling renewable energy capacity and doubling energy efficiency globally by 2030.
(Source: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
Source: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 位于印度尼西亚 Jakarta 的东盟总部大楼，东盟能源中心总部设于 Jakarta。照片：Gunawan Kartapranata 摄，CC BY-SA 3.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / The ASEAN headquarters building in Jakarta, Indonesia; the ASEAN Centre for Energy is headquartered in Jakarta. Photo: Gunawan Kartapranata, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
