The 30th meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Senior Officials and Experts (ICSOE) of Southern Africa is being convened by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Sub Regional Office for Southern Africa (SRO-SA) and hosted by the Government of Zambia in Livingstone from 20-21 November 2024 under the theme: Addressing the energy deficit in Southern Africa through investments in new and renewable energy technologies to reduce energy poverty and accelerate sustainable industrialization and structural transformation. The theme tackles one of the key enablers of industrialization in the face of climate change by providing stakeholders in Southern Africa with a platform to discuss how the region’s vast new and renewable energy resources could be exploited to support the clean and just energy transition as well as help reduce the regional energy gap for both productive and consumptive purposes.