 President Obama announced in a video message at the sixth Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM6) in Mérida, Mexico that the United States would host the seventh Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM7) in 2016.At COP21 in Paris in December, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced CEM7 would be hosted in San Francisco, California.CEM7 is a high-level meeting of energy ministers coming together to discuss and implement actions of respective climate and clean energy goals put forward at COP21.