INETTT annual meeting and workshop in Johannesburg

On behalf of IPS, its GM Operations Naufil Shahrukh participated in the first annual meeting of the International Network of Energy Transition Think Tanks (INETTT), which was hosted in Johannesburg by its initiator Agora Energiewende – a project of Smart Energy for Europe Platform gGmbH from Berlin, Germany – in collaboration with two South African civil society organizations, Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI), Johannesburg and GreenCape, Cape Town from September 3-9, 2023.

It was the first in-person gathering of the founding members of INETTT – a collaborative and knowledge-sharing platform of think tanks across the world contributing towards clean energy transition in their respective countries. The participants had detailed discussions on the draft constitution, governing structure, strategic planning and future courses of action for the newly formed global network.

Naufil Shahrukh introduced the Institute and its Energy, Water, & Climate Change program to the participants, before shedding light on the systemic and communication challenges facing energy transition in Pakistan and other developing states.

Shahrukh, in addition, also had an exclusive meeting with the officials of the local hosts PARI on the sidelines, exploring avenues for future collaboration and the possibilities of joint ventures in the areas of governance and state reforms, besides the mutually concerning domain of energy transition.

It merits a mention here that IPS has been a member of Agora’s international outreach initiative INETTT for about two years and has collaborated with Agora in its research studies on renewable and clean energy transition in the recent past.