Nigeria, Nov. 14 -- A new international white paper launched at the COP31 climate summit in Antalya, Turkiye, has urged governments to prioritise pumped-storage hydropower as strategic infrastructure to strengthen energy security and support the expansion of renewable electricity.

The paper, developed with input from more than 60 governments and international agencies through the Global Alliance for Pumped Storage (GAPS), outlines seven policy recommendations for accelerating investment in the technology, which can store electricity for extended periods and release it when demand increases.

It was presented at a high-level roundtable organised by GAPS, as countries consider how to strengthen electricity systems amid growing energy deman...