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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

Global renewable energy capacity hit 2,537 gigawatts at the end of last year, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency. While the additions reported by IRENA may appear promising overall, 2020 looks set to pose a number of challenges for the renewables sector.

The International Renewable Energy Agency has hailed the U.S. decision to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord as a “crucial” step forward in the fight against climate change. “It means a lot for the renewable world, and for the energy transition,” Francesco La Camera, Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency told CNBC at the Atlantic Council’s annual Global Energy Forum.

Renewables are the covid success story," states the International Energy Agency (IEA) in its Global Energy Review, published today. This mode of sustainable energy production, led by solar and wind, this year will already provide 30% of global electricity. These numbers are an extraordinary story of resilience and hope. Despite all the difficulties and uncertainties, we are at the beginning of the decade of renewables ”, said Francesco La Camera, Director-General of the International Renewable Energy agency (IRENA).

A number of countries want to make wind energy a crucial tool in their pivot away from fossil fuels. The Brussels-based organization’s outlook for jobs is based on what it described as “market growth data” from GWEC Market Intelligence and “global studies by the International Renewable Energy Agency on job creation for onshore and offshore wind projects from 2017 and 2018.”

Qualified professionals working in clean energy are essential in a context in which sustainability is increasingly valued. Ethanol and biodiesel are the most common in Brazil and here is an encouraging fact: according to the report “Renewable Energy and Jobs”, published by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Brazil opened 832 thousand jobs in the area in the year alone 2019.

With ASEAN’s strong economic growth exceeding four percent annually, the region’s energy consumption has doubled since 1995 – and demand is expected to continue growing at 4.7 percent per year through 2034, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in its ‘Renewable Energy Market Analysis: Southeast Asia’ report published last year.

As well as being less risky, more cost-effective and helping to create jobs, renewable energy solutions deliver a better result for the environment. According to the International Renewable Energy Agency, the cost of renewables continues on a downward trajectory and are now most frequently the cheapest source of energy generation, weakening the case for nuclear power.

President Xi Jinping surprised the world last week by pledging China would aim for “carbon neutrality” by 2060, but Beijing remains worried about energy security, jobs and growth, especially as the economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. China had just over 1,000 GW of coal-fired power last year, but it also had 759 GW of renewable energy - almost three times more than the United States and equivalent to the United States and the European Union combined, data here from the International Renewable Energy Agency showed.

Nations need to direct investments towards a green and healthy recovery, as insurance against future disasters. The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) estimates that transforming energy systems based on renewables could boost global GDP by $98 trillion by 2050, and create 63 million new jobs globally in renewables and energy efficiency.

Renewables create more jobs per dollar invested than oil industry, say advocates. "Stimulus and recovery measures in response to the pandemic must foster economic development and job creation, promote social equity and welfare, and put the world on a climate-safe path," Francesco La Camera, director-general of the International Renewable Energy Agency, said in a statement this month

The latest report on energy system developments shows that 176 GWs of new renewable energy capacity accounted for 72% of all new energy capacity additions in 2019. The data, released in the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)’s annual Renewable Capacity Statistics 2020, showed that while the 2019 figure was slightly lower than 2018’s 179 GW the market continued to expand, up over 7.5%.

On Earth Day 2020, communities and businesses alike are grounded — hunkered down until the “curve flattens” and the threats posed by COVID-19 pass. “The crisis has exposed deeply embedded vulnerabilities of the current system,” says IRENA’s Director-General Francesco La Camera. “By accelerating renewables and making the energy transition an integral part of the wider recovery, governments can achieve multiple economic and social objectives in the pursuit of a resilient future that leaves nobody behind.” The group’s Global Renewables Outlook, which concludes the cumulative gross domestic product would improve by $98 trillion by 2050 and bring with it 42 million jobs.

The renewable-energy industry could create more than a million jobs a year if countries invest enough to meet their target for cutting global carbon emissions, according to an advocacy organization. Solar, wind and other forms of green energy could add 42 million jobs by 2050 if nations spend more aggressively to limit the increase in average global temperatures, the International Renewable Energy Agency said.

Mired in political and economic deadlock, Lebanon remains in the grip of several crises, which the persistent global pandemic has exacerbated. In June, the World Bank described Lebanon's ongoing depression as "one most severe crises episodes globally since the mid-nineteenth century." According to International Renewable Energy Agency’s (IRENA) web platform, Global Atlas for Renewable Energy, the average annual solar irradiation in Lebanon ranges between 1,520 kWh/m2/year and 2,148 kWh/m2/year. Most areas in Lebanon receive more than 1,900 kWh/m2/year, making the country an ideal candidate for electric generation through solar power.

IRENA DG Francesco La Camera commented on the significance of the G20’s announcement on the road to COP28 and priority areas for the energy transition to realise the goal to triple global renewable energy capacity by 2030.

Data show that Brazil is the second place among the countries with the largest number of jobs in renewable energies , according to a survey by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

The Minister for Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, today inaugurated, on behalf of the Government of Spain, the XI Assembly of the International Renewable Energy Agency. During his speech at the opening ceremony, Ribera advocated "accelerating action for the climate and promoting renewable energies" to ensure that the economic recovery from Covid19 is sustainable and fair: "aligning economic recovery mechanisms with Climate action, he said, is the best way to emerge stronger from the crisis derived from the pandemic."