OPINION | JEREMY GORDON


Jeremy Gordon is an independent communication consultant with 18 years of experience in the international energy industry. His company Fluent in Energy supports partners of all kinds to communicate matters of clean energy and sustainable development.


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Nuclear has a key role to play in the clean energy transition but its presence at COP27 was surprisingly muted. Jeremy Gordon argues that it’s time nuclear power claimed its rightful place at the clean energy top table and became part of the conversation


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the first time, the agency teamed up with industry groups and some of their members to create the Atoms for Climate stand. Hosting discussions with experts, ministers and head of organisations from the UN system, they showed a face that was worldly, diverse, innovative, professional and dedicated, but above all one that was present and engaging. All this comes in addition to the volunteers from the


Young Generation Network and self-funded advocates from around the world who have been the industry’s sole representation on a shoestring budget for years. COP always has a lot of critics, but the meetings are


“No one is interested in a safe nuclear power plant. We’ve sent a request to Operations to arrange some kind of fault”


UCLEAR HAS ENJOYED THE BEST representation yet during COP27 in Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheik, thanks to the efforts of international organisations, professionals, and advocates. The missing piece, which really should be in place for next year, is acknowledgement


of nuclear’s role by all of the countries actually using it. Building on last year, when Rafael Mariano Grossi put the International Atomic Energy Agency on the front foot for


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important and necessary. You can’t have a global effort to reduce emissions without agreed goals and a process towards them. You can’t have a process without reporting and discussion. You can’t have a legitimate discussion without involving every stakeholder. So, when every nation, community, interest group, and industry in the world has to be present to have their say the result is inevitably a circus, but an unavoidable one. After all, COP stands for Conference of the Parties. Representation at COP and elsewhere is vital to nuclear


because it is such a small industry. With its innate resource efficiency and remote sites, few people without hands-on experience have any real knowledge of nuclear. And we all know the word nuclear comes with enough negative assumptions to fill any information gap left unattended. Representation at COP and elsewhere is vital to nuclear


because it is such a small industry. With its innate resource efficiency and remote sites, few people without hands-on experience have any real knowledge of nuclear. Even in the energy industry the level of awareness about


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