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    • Let’s Not Forget, People Power Energy

      In a world so rich in innovation and technology, it is easy to forget just how important people are to progress and development.

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    • Renewables and Green Gas: The Only Viable Antidote to High Fossil Fuel Prices

      Outdated perceptions of the costs of clean energy remain a major barrier to the energy transition. Despite the dramatic fall in prices across these technologies, the dialogue surrounding “cheap” fossil fuels and “expensive” renewable energy endures, and must be changed.

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    • The Powerful Role in Geopolitics is to Manage the Energy Transition

      The energy transition presents both challenges and remarkable opportunities. Through international collaboration, innovative governance, and investments in exploration, recycling, and technology, we can ensure the benefits of the clean energy transition are shared globally.

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    • Collaborative Actions to Pave the Road for SDG7 Achievement

      The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is uniquely positioned to steward joint effort in global commitments to sustainable development, through universal energy access and a just energy transition with fellow custodian agencies: the International Energy Agency, United Nations Statistics Division, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization.

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    • The Success of Energy Transition Starts With Strong National Energy Planning

      The Global Network of Long-term Energy Scenarios (LTES) provides sustainable support through inclusive partnerships and collective wisdom and fosters collaboration across all regions, North-to-North, North-to-South, South-to-South, and South-to-North, bringing together champions of energy planning to share expertise, address common challenges, and strengthen their planning processes.

      News Expert Insights Energy transition Planning
    • MENA’s Transforming Role in an Evolving Energy Landscape

      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.

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    • Solving the Chicken and Egg Problem: Auctions for Green Hydrogen

      Green hydrogen has received increasing attention across the energy sector in recent years, given its capability to decarbonise ‘hard to abate’ sectors and provide seasonal storage for power grids rich in variable renewable energy.

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    • Leaders Summit: The Energy Transition Priorities Needed for a 1.5°C Future

      The Paris agreement sets out a global framework to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. . Today, more and more countries are aiming for net zero emissions by mid-century.

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    • The EV Effect: Markets are Betting on the Energy Transition

      Electromobility has a major role to play in achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement. IRENA’s transformation pathway estimates that 350 million electric vehicles (EVs) will be needed by 2030, kickstarting developments in the industry and influencing share values as manufacturers, suppliers and investors move to capitalise on the energy transition.

      News Expert Insights Energy transition Innovation
    • Leaders Summit: The Energy Transition Priorities Needed for a 1.5°C Future

      The Paris agreement sets out a global framework to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. . Today, more and more countries are aiming for net zero emissions by mid-century.

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    • Materials Shortage Will Not Stop The Energy Transition, If We Plan Ahead

      IRENA and Enel foundation strength their partnership on the occasion of COP26 to accurately measure reserves, resources and demand impacts, accounting for innovation and circularity from design to re-use and recycle. Supply risks can be managed properly and IRENA convening power and technical expertise will help foster international governance for materials.

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    • Innovation Will Drive the Energy Transition

      As countries around the world shape their plans to build back better in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, they have a chance to create significant private sector business opportunities by accelerating the global energy transition.

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    • Choose to Act with Wisdom and Speed

      A message to the G20 from Mr. Francesco La Camera, Director-General of IRENA

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