The report “Renewable Energy and Jobs: Annual Review 2022” revealed that the number of jobs in the renewable energy sector globally has risen to 12.7 million, an increase of 700,000 new jobs within one year, despite the continuing repercussions of the “Covid-19” pandemic.

Renewable energy jobs are shifting into new markets, particularly in Asia, as more countries begin to manufacture, trade and install sustainable energy technologies – according to the latest annual review of jobs in the industry, published today by the Abu Dhabi-based International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

This article reviews the literature on the geopolitics of renewable energy. The German Federal Foreign Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway were particularly active, "Joining forces with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) to support a major international analytical initiative from 2016 to 2017, leading on to the formation of the Global Commission on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation under IRENA in 2018."

The 2019 IRENA Renewable Energy and Jobs Report, highlights how the main contributing factors dictating the increased demand for labour are: governmental policies, including fiscal incentives and policy measures to promote the sector’s expansion; trade patterns; supply-chain diversification; and industry consolidation.

Eleven million people around the world were employed by the renewable energy sector in 2018, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) reports in the sixth edition of their Renewable Energy and Jobs series.This represents an increase of 700,000 jobs from 2017, growing nearly 7% in just one year. The trend should inspire confidence in renewables by other countries as technologies improve and costs go down.

A new report by IRENA has revealed that more 7.7 million people worldwide are employed in the global renewable energy industry. The figure represents an 18 percent increase from last year's figure of 6.5 million. The report, Renewable Energy and Jobs - Annual Review 2015, also provides a first-ever global estimate of the number of jobs supported by large hydropower, with a conservative estimate of an additional 1.5 million direct jobs worldwide.

Few industries in the U.S. are growing as fast as renewable energy. According to IRENA and Jobs-Annual Review 2014, there are 6.5 million people employed in renewable energy around the globe.

The number of jobs in renewable energy worldwide increased in 2020, despite the huge economic disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the growing industry holding up better than fossil fuels, international agencies said on Thursday. In an annual report on clean energy employment, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) said there were 12 million jobs in renewable energy and its supply chains last year, a third of them in solar power.

Renewable energy employed 9.8 million people last year, up 1.1 percent from 2015, led by solar photovoltaic at 3.09 million jobs, according to IRENA annual report on the industry. Growth has slowed in the past two years while solar photovoltaic and wind categories more than doubled their number of jobs since 2012, the first year assessed, Irena said in the report.

Each million dollars invested in renewable energy would create at least 25 jobs, while each million invested in energy efficiency would create about 10, says IRENA in a document published at the end of June. Director-General of IRENA, Francesco La Camera, presented these figures in the "digital dialogues" of the "Financial Times" and estimated that such investments would allow the creation, over the next 3 years, of more than 5.4 million jobs.

The global renewable energy generation capacity increased by 167 gigawatt to reach 2,179 GW by the end of 2017, representing an average annual growth of 8.3 percent for seven consecutive years, a report said. IRENA said its newly published report entitled "Renewable Capacity Statistics 2018" is the most comprehensive, up-to-date and accessible figures on renewable energy capacity statistics, as it contains nearly 15,000 data points from more than 200 countries and territories.

The renewable energy industry employed an estimated 9.8 million people worldwide in 2016, an increase of 1.1 percent on 2015, according to IRENA. With 3.09 million jobs, solar led the way, followed by liquid biofuels (1.7 million) and hydropower (1.5 million). China had a total of 3.6 million jobs in renewable energy last year while the U.S. had 777,000, according to IRENA.

Renewable energy jobs reached 7.7 million in 2014, excluding large hydropower, a new report from IRENA states. In particular, the paper estimates large hydropower supported 1.5 million direct jobs - almost half of them in China, largely in construction and installation - bringing the total renewable jobs in the world to more than 9 million last year.

This week, IRENA released its 2015 renewable energy and jobs report finding that 7.7 million people are now employed by the sector worldwide, up 18 per cent from the number reported last year and up 35 percent over the last two years. If you add large hydropower to the mix, you get a conservative estimate of an additional 1.5 million direct jobs worldwide.

A report jointly released by the International Renewable Energy Agency and the International Labour Organization on the 22nd shows that the global renewable energy jobs will reach 12.7 million in 2021, and China will account for 42% of the global total.

The renewable energy sector generated 12.7 million jobs last year, up from 12 million during the previous year, with solar projects accounting for most employment generation, a report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) and the International Labour Organisation found on Thursday. “In the face of numerous challenges, renewable energy jobs remain resilient and have been proven to be a reliable job creation engine,” said Francesco La Camera, Irena’s director general.

Francesco La Camera, IRENA’s Director-General, said; “In the face of numerous challenges, renewable energy jobs remain resilient, and have been proven to be a reliable job creation engine. My advice to governments around the world is to pursue industrial policies that encourage the expansion of decent renewables jobs at home.”

Female Mayors at the forefront of green development in the Mediterranean. “On most larger islands tourism drives the local economy, and any intervention that makes them look less attractive on Instagram is going to be fiercely opposed,” says Angelos Asimacopoulos, an owner of several small hotels in the central Aegean. Yet renewable energy is becoming increasingly central to energy security for island economies around the world, according to Francesco La Camera, director-general of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

With the government committing £12bn to kickstart a green industrial revolution, joining the sector as an apprentice could be a smart career move. Renewables could support a drive for a more diverse workforce in the future energy sector. According to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), women currently hold about a third (32%) of the world’s renewable energy jobs.

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), in a new report, has revealed that investment in renewables can provide nearly 60 per cent of Nigeria’s energy demand by 2050.

Renewable energies are the most practical and readily available climate solution. According to a recent analysis published by an IRENA, the accelerated spread of renewable energy in the GCC region can reduce CO2 emissions by 136 million tons.

The world will fail to secure universal access to reliable, sustainable and modern energy by 2030 unless efforts accelerate. That is, it will fail to comply with Sustainable Development Goal number 7 . The new Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report (2020) published today by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Agency for Renewable Energy (IRENA), is dedicated to this objective of sustainable development. United Nations statistics, the World Bank and the World Health Organization.

The renewable energy market should be able to weather short-term fluctuations and may even be poised to get a boost from efforts to restart economies. Since 2015, the development of renewables has outpaced that of nonrenewable energy worldwide, accounting for 72 percent of all new power generation in 2019, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency.

Over 500,000 new jobs were generated by the renewable energy industry last year, a 5.3 percent rise when compared to 2016, according to a report. The number of people working in the renewable energy sector including large hydropower hit 10.3 million in 2017, IRENA study said. Breaking the figures down, IRENA said that the solar photovoltaic industry employed the largest amount of people, with almost 3.4 million working in that sector.

The growing renewable energy industry created 500,000 new jobs globally last year, surpassing the 10 million-mark for the first time. Harnessing clean energy around the world had created a total of 10.3 million jobs by the end of 2017, a 5.3 percent jump on the previous year, according to the IRENA. Adnan Z. Amin, Director-General of IRENA, said the findings showed renewable energy "has become a pillar of low-carbon economic growth for governments all over the world".