Highlights of activities by IRENA and Director-General Francesco La Camera.

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.

New report sets out urgent priorities to rapidly make more clean technologies the most affordable options in key sectors.

IRENA, co-founding partner Siemens Energy and 12 companies across all industry sectors have launched the global Alliance for Industry Decarbonization.

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.

Statement of the Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency, Francesco La Camera.

Outdated perceptions of the costs of clean energy remain a major barrier to the energy transition.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.

IRENA Global Council on Enabling Youth Action for SDG 7 brings together 18 young leaders, government representatives, expert practitioners and delegates from different institutions and regions, to develop and adopt an action plan with concrete initiatives that can drive forward youth-led action on energy access and the transition to a renewable energy future.

Young leaders from around the world issued a clear call for action at the 2022 IRENA Youth Forum.

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

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.

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.

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.