The Accelerated Partnership for Renewables in Africa (APRA), launched by President Ruto of Kenya ahead of COP28, aims to support Africa’s clean energy agenda and bring this ambitious vision to life.
Summit on Clean Cooking in Africa organised by the International Energy Agency raised the need to track clean cooking finance reinforces the importance that the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) sees in the workstream.
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is redefining its role within an evolving energy landscape, transitioning to a renewables-based energy system offers a pathway to simultaneously meet growing energy demand, promote economic growth, maximise socio-economic benefits, and achieve decarbonisation objectives.
Francesco La Camera, IRENA Director-General & Nardos Bekele-Thomas, AUDA-NEPAD CEO, discuss how ensuring adequate investment and infrastructure development to support renewables is crucial to meet Africa's power needs.
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.