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.
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.
World Energy Transitions Outlook outlines priority actions till 2030 to keep 1.5°C alive; calls on governments to fast-track energy transition for more energy security, resilience, and affordable energy for all.
IRENA analysis shows region can pursue more ambitious energy transition agenda, gaining cost benefits while achieving socio-economic and climate objectives.
Beyond Food partnership launched by IRENA and UAE in collaboration with NAMA to provide clean cooking energy and technologies to communities and households.
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.
Outdated perceptions of the costs of clean energy remain a major barrier to the energy transition.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.
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.
Country’s National Energy Policy to put the energy transition centre-stage of national economic and social agendas.
India signals intention to broaden renewable technology base including to green hydrogen.
Virtual Assembly to drive an ‘action agenda’ into 2022 and beyond.
A message to the G20 from Mr. Francesco La Camera, Director-General of IRENA