The said initiative was touched upon in the course of the meeting between Sergiy Savchuk, Chairman of State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine, Dominique Ristori, Director-General of the Directorate-General for Energy within the European Commission, and Adnan Z. Amin, Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). The meeting took place within the framework of the Eighth Assembly of the International Renewable Energy Agency in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

In the course of the talks, the sides agreed to consider the possibility of holding a large-scale international forum on energy efficiency and renewable energy in Ukraine with the participation of the European Commission and IRENA.