As China's push to reach carbon neutrality by 2060 draws increased attention toward wind power, experts say moving wind farms to deeper waters could eliminate some of the challenges to offshore wind power and help expand the fleet of turbines. Offshore wind power is expected to account for 10 percent of total power generation in 2050, and 70 percent of the technical potential is in deeper waters suited to wind farms floating on the ocean surface rather than digging into the ocean bed, said Dolf Gielen, director of the International Renewable Energy Agency Innovation and Technology Center.

Transition in the energy sector is happening and renewables is at the forefront of the discussion, according to Adnan Z. Amin, Director-General of IRENA. Renewable energy use made up 30 percent of total energy generation at the end of 2015 and the declining cost of renewables would accelerate renewable usage throughout the world. Speaking at the World Energy Congress, Amin said "Investment and growth of renewables at this level signals the energy transformation happening in the sector".

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How green is wind power? It’s not a simple question. Of course the wind blows without carbon emissions, but catching it isn’t easy. They won’t run out of material — the International Renewable Energy Agency predicts that we’ll have to deal with a cumulative 78 million metric tons of antiquated solar panel waste and tens of millions of tons of old turbine blades by 2050.

Electricity generated from renewable sources represented almost three quarters of new power capacity added in 2019, the International Renewable Energy Agency said in a report.

The 44-member Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) represents some of the world’s most vulnerable island nations fighting a virtually losing battle against rising sea levels triggered by global warming and climate change. The Maldives, as the Chair of AOSIS, and in collaboration with IRENA, launched the Initiative for Renewable Island Energy in October, which will facilitates support for Small Island States in their transition to renewable energy, and in achieving energy efficiency.

Representatives from over 90 countries came to Abu Dhabi to discuss and recommend actions to promote the expansion of renewables around the world.

A July report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) found Australia was now among the world leaders in cheap solar energy.

The power companies from the Gulf Cooperation Council nations are planning to further invest in the global $10 trillion renewables market, expanding outside their region as demand for cleaner energy gathers pace around the world. The gulf region could save 354 million barrels of oil equivalent from adopting renewable energy by 2030, according to a 2019 study from the Abu Dhabi-based International Renewable Energy Agency.