Collaboration was central to our activities this quarter, including publishing a joint IUCN-Ipieca guidance on co-use opportunities in wind and solar, signing a Memorandum of Cooperation with the ASEAN Council on Petroleum and Energy, and co-hosting a series of webinars with other industry associations, which reached over 2,600 participants.
Ipieca has collaborated with IUCN for many years now, co-hosting official side events at UNCBD COPs and other nature focused events and providing feedback on one another’s work programmes and resources, but this is the first good practice guidance we have produced together.
We are excited to be playing an active role in this once every four year gathering of nature conservation experts, leaders and decision-makers from around the world which starts today. If you are in Abu Dhabi this week, some onsite Ipieca activity to look out for:
For more details: https://www.ipieca.org/events/iucn-world-conservation-congress-2025
Our membership and activities in the South East Asia region have been building for some time. I am delighted that we will be able to do even more to support the region’s contribution to a sustainable energy transition through our recently signed memorandum of cooperation (MoC) with ASCOPE, whose members include ten national oil companies/oil ministries in the region.
Our MoC is focused on driving support for energy transition roadmaps, the uptake of sustainability reporting and advancing environmental and social performance across operations and supply chains. This work will be implemented through joint capacity building and knowledge sharing workshops, events and webinars, with our first collaboration set to be a webinar focused on driving sustainability reporting in the region.
During this quarter we held five webinars covering methane reduction, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and sustainability reporting in partnership with other industry associations. The benefits of working together not only showed in the quality of the webinars but their culminative reach of over 2,600 participants from across the industry and around the globe.
You can check out the recordings of these via the links below:
The joint IUCN-Ipieca co-use guidance was not the only publication we released this quarter. We also published the following guidance and resources:
World Water Week 2025
Water is a key topic for Ipieca and one that is increasingly gaining recognition as an important element of the energy transition.
At this year’s World Water Week we co-hosted an official side event with the Netherland’s government, WWF and Haskoning on water-related trade-offs in the energy transition focused on water stewardship across energy systems.
Looking ahead to Q4
Quarter four is shaping up to be a busy one for Ipieca. We will be at WPC’s Energy Youth Forum, followed by ADIPEC and then onto COP30, all important events that will bring the industry and other sectors together to facilitate collaboration and maximise our collective impact on a sustainable energy transition.
As my secondment with Ipieca comes to an end after more than six incredible years, I’ve been reflecting on the milestones, challenges, achievements but especially people that shaped this journey. Numbers often tell the story better than words, so I’d like to share some of the figures that defined my time.
Ipieca’s strategy will lead the integration of climate, nature and people actions across the oil, gas and alternative energy industry value chain, driving the delivery of diverse pathways to net-zero, supporting the resilience and rehabilitation of local communities and ecosystems, and enabling the industry to adapt to the changing reporting landscape.
