Tripling Renewables is Key to Meeting Climate Goals
Renewable energy ambitions within NDCs are insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C.
Renewable energy ambitions within NDCs are insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C.
At the Climate Week NYC, IRENA Director-General Francesco La Camera underscored the need for massive investments in renewable energy to mitigate the current energy crisis.
The capacity building roundtable for islands in the Atlantic, Indian Ocean and South China Sea was organised by IRENA through its SIDS Lighthouses Initiative.
Recognising its invaluable promotion of sustainable development in SIDS, IRENA received the first ever “UN SIDS Partnerships Award” in the environmental category.
China aims for its carbon emissions to peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.
The energy transition is also a roadmap to clean industrialisation and economic independence in Africa. Here is how a comprehensive ‘green deal’ could get the continent there.
Ministers, heads of international organisations, and private actors welcomed commitments made in Glasgow but stressed the need for urgent action as they debated outcomes of COP26 and the High-Level Dialogue on Energy, at a high-level meeting convened by IRENA during its recently concluded 12th Assembly.