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Broadening the mission of Mission Innovation

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Mission Innovation seeks to accelerate deployment of clean energy and make it affordable, attractive and accessible to all. Fully succeeding in these aims will require greater attention to the needs and context of developing countries, concerted focus on capacity building, and increased emphasis on energy access and justice.

A consequent major outcome is Mission Innovation (MI), a cooperative effort launched in 2015 at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris by 20 major economies that accounted for more than 80% of the public energy research and development (R&D) expenditures globally. The goal of this effort is to strengthen public and private global clean-energy innovation and to make clean energy widely affordable2.

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