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Highly efficient, electricity-driven heat pumps have a crucial role to play in decarbonising space and water heating in buildings.

Highlights of activities by IRENA and Director-General Francesco La Camera.

The energy transition, with its systematic shift to renewable energy needs to be understood not as a burden impost on the world’s most vulnerable people, but as a vast opportunity to improve livelihoods across Africa in ways that transcend purely economic benefits.

IRENA and the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) hosted, “Closing the Gap: securing lives, creating livelihoods in Small Islands Developing States” session at COP27 on 16 November.

Agreement calls for parties to work closely together to promote the widespread adoption of renewables to bolster climate adaptation and mitigation efforts.

IRENA calls on G7 to ramp-up a global green hydrogen market; makes key recommendation to leaders for their G7 Hydrogen Action Pact.

IRENA organised the "Game Changers Accelerating the Global Energy" session on 15 November at COP27, in support of the High-Level Champions and the Marrakesh Partnership for Global Climate Action.

 SIDS continue to accelerate the uptake of renewables to mitigate future impacts and adapt to global uncertainties.

IRENA and the Danish government organised an event titled, “Renewable Energy Transitions in the ASEAN Region” at COP27.