In a remote village in Honduras, a decentralised, sustainable energy project combining solar power, biomass, and battery storage has provided continuous electricity—empowering the community, enhancing the quality of life with refrigeration for food and medicines, and revitalising the local economy.
Over the course of two weeks of the conference, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) launched key initiatives and engaged with governments, the private sector, and youth, advocating for ambitious outcomes that would align decisions related to the energy transition with a 1.5°C scenario.
At COP29 in Baku, IRENA and the United Arab Emirates co-hosted a high-level event to discuss the challenges and opportunities of “Integrating UAE Consensus Energy Outcomes with NDCs 3.0”.
In a remote village in Honduras, a decentralised, sustainable energy project combining solar power, biomass, and battery storage has provided continuous electricity—empowering the community, enhancing the quality of life with refrigeration for food and medicines, and revitalising the local economy.
This report, supported by the National Metrology Institute of Germany (PTB) and Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), presents a Roadmap for developing a quality infrastructure system for green hydrogen.
This report examines national and regional efforts to enhance and implement climate targets, and the related support provided by IRENA through its various work packages, including those concerned with NDCs.
This IRENA-WTO joint report highlights the critical role of coherent strategies in promoting renewable hydrogen and derived commodities as essential means to decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors.
IRENA’s 1.5°C Scenario, set out in the World Energy Transitions Outlook, presents a pathway to achieve the 1.5°C target by 2050, positioning electrification and efficiency as key transition drivers, enabled by renewable energy, clean hydrogen and sustainable biomass.
This report, from the Coalition for Action Working Group on Community Energy, highlights the advantages of pursuing community energy in achieving the tripling of renewable energy capacity by 2030 in a just and inclusive manner.
Based on lessons learned from renewable power auctions, this report represents a guide for policymakers concerned with the design of auctions for green hydrogen deployment.
This study finds that women continue to face numerous barriers to engagement in the decentralised solar PV workforce, providing recommendations to advance female inclusion in the sector.
This report marks the first in a series of annual tracking publications commissioned by the COP28 Presidency to assess progress towards two key goals of the outcome of the First Global Stocktake: the tripling of renewable energy and the doubling of energy efficiency by 2030.
This report, one of two produced in conjunction with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, reviews initiatives aimed at improving data availability in other sectors to inform models for critical materials data management.
This report, produced in conjunction with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, presents strategies for establishing and maintaining lists of critical materials of importance to the energy transition.
Governments are facing a difficult task of bringing the health emergency under control while introducing major stimulus and recovery measures. The crisis has exposed deeply embedded vulnerabilities ...