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Supporting countries worldwide in their transition to a sustainable energy future

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  • Sri Lanka: #3xRenewables for Job Creation and Economic Growth

    Articles

    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.

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  • A Quality Infrastructure Roadmap for green hydrogen

    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.

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    Energy transition, Quality & Standards, Green hydrogen, Hydrogen, Technology & infrastructure English
  • Climate Action Support 2024

    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.

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    Energy transition English
  • Enabling global trade in renewable hydrogen and derivative commodities

    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.

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    Energy transition, Green hydrogen, Hydrogen English
  • World Energy Transitions Outlook 2024

    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.

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    Energy transition, Finance & investment English
  • Community energy benefits: Powering universal wellbeing

    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.

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    Energy transition, Socio-economic impact English
  • Green hydrogen auctions: A guide to design

    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.

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    Energy transition, Hydrogen, Green hydrogen, Renewable energy auctions English
  • Decentralised solar PV: A gender perspective

    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.

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    Energy transition, Gender, Solar energy English
  • Delivering on the UAE Consensus: Tracking progress toward tripling renewable energy capacity and doubling energy efficiency by 2030

    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.

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    Energy transition English
  • Critical materials for renewable energy: Improving data governance

    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.

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    Energy transition, Critical materials English
  • Constructing a ranking of critical materials for the global energy transition

    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.

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    Energy transition, Critical materials English
  • Featured video

    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 ...

    Francesco La Camera,
    IRENA Director-General
  • Featured video

    Time to Transform European Commitments into Actions

    Francesco La Camera,
    IRENA Director-General
    Euronews