IVECF 2026
9 - 10 April 2026 | Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Austria
Powering Prosperity, Security and Stability
Growing concerns over international security, energy supply disruptions, competition over critical minerals, persistent energy poverty, climate impacts and growing inequality strain progress to deliver on global development, energy and climate goals.
At the same time rapid advances in sustainable energy, green industrialization and climate-adaptation technologies are creating unprecedented opportunities to address these challenges, increase resilience and shared prosperity.
IVECF 2026 convenes leaders from governments, international organizations, the private sector, financial institutions, research communities and civil society to strengthen multilateral cooperation and accelerate integrated action across energy, industry and climate to address growing instabilities.
A decisive shift from target setting to delivery and implementation
The Forum will showcase and advance sustainable energy, climate and green industry solutions that can help prevent conflict, reduce inequalities, decrease resource dependency, create new employment opportunities for youth and support post‑crisis recovery.
IVECF 2026 connects global commitments with delivery. Building on themomentum of the Belém Declaration on Global Green Industrialization, adopted atCOP30, the Forum serves as a bridge between political ambition and operational implementation.
The International Vienna Energy and Climate Forum is co-organized by
The Nexus
The IVECF 2026 responds to the challenges with a nexus-based approach that positions sustainable energy, climate action and green industrialization as key pillars of shared prosperity, security and stability.
Climate Action
Fostering climate-resilient green transformation through climate-smart technologies, policies and strategies
Sustainable Energy
Expanding access to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy and accelerating a just energy transition for all
Green Industrialization
Transforming the energy transition into productive capacity, jobs, and value creation
Understanding IVECF
These three elements are bound together by a security–prosperity nexus, making IVECF 2026 the only global platform where development, justice, inclusion and resilience converge to deliver lasting peace and shared progress.
Forum Structure
Over two days, the Forum will reaffirm green industrialization, just energy transition and climate action as cornerstones of shared prosperity, resilience and global stability, while providing substantive inputs to the initial deliberations on the post‑2030 development agenda. The IVECF programme is designed around two complementary and interlinked action tracks that run in parallel throughout both days:
Participation and Engagement Opportunities
IVECF 2026 offers multiple avenues for stakeholders to engage, contribute and collaborate in shaping the global energy and climate security agenda.
Engage actively in the Forum by joining high-level plenaries and thematic roundtables, delegate experts to take part in technical discussions and peer exchanges, share national strategies, policies or commitments
Engage in plenaries and roundtables to pledge business action, present technologies and solutions, demonstrate corporate leadership, and network with global leaders from governments, international organizations and civil society
Lead thematic deep dives and solution-focused discussions, support the participation of experts and speakers from LDCs, LLDCs, SIDS, and underrepresented groups such as women and youth and advance follow-up initiatives on capacity building, financing and new projects
Explore dedicated youth- and women-centred deep dives, discussions and capacity-building activities, join discussions, present innovative solutions that advance equity, resilience and climate justice and shape international frameworks through intergenerational and intersectional dialogue and advocacy
Key outcomes include the Vienna Declaration on Sustainable Energy and Climate Security, a global call to action linking just transitions with stability, peace, and prosperity; the Global Green Industrialization Pact Five-Year Action Plan, outlining a roadmap to accelerate sustainable industrialization through cooperation and innovation; and a set of policy briefs and partnership commitments that will feed into major global processes, including COP31, the SDG7 Review, and the 2026 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF).
Shape the future with us
IVECF 2026 provides multiple opportunities for stakeholders to collaborate on shaping the energy and climate transition and driving green industrialization. If you would like to sponsor a session, please contact us at ivecf@unido.org.
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