A United Nations climate summit has once again failed to strengthen a pledge made two years ago to transition “away from fossil fuels.” Instead these dirty drivers of the climate crisis went completely unacknowledged in the weekend’s COP30 agreement. It’s disappointing, certainly, but a more ambitious outcome wouldn’t have been much better.
Capital injected into renewable energy has reached $807b in 2024, which is about one-third of the $2.4t investments made in energy transition last year.
As the world accelerates efforts toward carbon neutrality, it is becoming increasingly clear that developing countries will play a defining role in the success—or failure—of the global energy transition.
On the slopes of an Oregon volcano, engineers are building the hottest geothermal power plant on Earth.
In an exclusive studio interview with Energy Connects at ADIPEC 2025, IRENA Director General Francesco La Camera highlighted the urgent need for more investments in energy infrastructure, comprehensive market reforms and global workforce reskilling to ensure a faster and more equitable global energy transition.
Despite climate ambitions slowing down around the world, Singapore is pushing ahead with its drive for green energy through partnerships, while building momentum on the Asean power grid.
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is set to convene its 30th Council meeting tomorrow in Abu Dhabi to review progress on the Agency’s work and consider collective priorities to accelerate the global energy transition, as preparations advance for COP30 and the 16th IRENA Assembly.
International Renewable Energy Agency Director-General Francesco La Camera says the distribution of deployment and investment in renewables are uneven across regions. He speaks with David Ingles from the sidelines of Singapore International Energy Week 2025.
From setting up renewable energy projects on remote islands in South-east Asia to promoting cross-border trade in green electricity, an intergovernmental organisation is on a mission to scale up clean energy in Asean.
Targets for sustainable biofuels use and social aspects of the energy transition will be in focus at this year's United Nations climate summit, COP30, said Francesco La Camera, Director-General at the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
Governments across Africa have cited policy reform and project diversification as some of the key strategies they would use to attract investment towards sustainable energy sectors, at a time when the gap between electricity demand and access continues to increase despite the continent’s vast clean power potential.
The International Forum on Energy Transition is under way in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou. The director-general of the International Renewable Energy Agency, or IRENA, Francesco La Camera told CGTN on the sidebar, the global energy transition is unstoppable, and called on the world to strengthen cooperation to accelerate the trend.
A record amount of renewable energy capacity was added globally last year, but that still left countries short of targets towards meeting a U.N. climate goal to triple capacity by 2030, a report by global renewable groups showed on Tuesday.
Countries around the world are not on track to meet their renewable energy goals despite record growth last year, according to an interim report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) released on Tuesday.
Brazil, India, Italy and Japan vowed Tuesday to quadruple their production and consumption of renewable fuels, hoping other countries will join the pledge during UN climate talks in November.
"I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy,” Thomas Edison – the American inventor and businessman – is quoted as telling Henry Ford in 1931. “
Le donne rappresentano appena il 32% dei posti di lavoro a tempo pieno nel settore delle energie rinnovabili, una quota identica a quella registrata sei anni fa
Digitalisation and artificial intelligence-based applications are becoming gamechangers for the energy transition.
A transição energética e a digitalização do campo estão redefinindo o mercado de trabalho no Brasil. Dois segmentos em franca expansão, energia solar e agro tecnologia, têm gerado oportunidades inéditas para profissionais capacitados, especialmente integradores solares e técnicos em drones.
Never before has New York climate week attracted so many people.
China, the world's biggest source of planet-warming gases, has for the first time committed to an absolute target to cut its emissions.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and 16 other heads of state and government signed a joint letter on Monday (Sep. 22) in defense of a fair and equitable energy transition.
A coalition of governments from Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean will join forces to warn that countries most affected by climate change will be left behind in the green energy transition without new funding instruments.
Deep in South Africa’s Northern Cape province, south of the Kalahari Desert, a beaming light towers above dozens of solar mirror panels.