IRENA hosted a webinar to launch the second edition of the Renewable Energy: A Gender Perspective report, bringing leaders and civil society champions together to discuss solutions for advancing gender equity in the renewable energy sector.
This second edition of the report, Renewable energy: A gender perspective, updates global figures and offers policy recommendations to strengthen gender equality across the energy transition.
A new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) finds that women hold 32% of full-time jobs in the renewables sector.
A renewable energy innovation has improved obstetric care to last-mile communities across Zimbabwe, successfully supporting over 180,000 deliveries per year since its introduction.
The International Renewable Energy Agency, in cooperation with GWNET, the Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition, discussed success stories from all around the world of accelerating action for gender equality in the renewable energy sector.
This study finds that women continue to face numerous barriers to engagement in the decentralised solar PV workforce, providing recommendations to advance female inclusion in the sector.
The evolving energy transitions needs that demand skilled workforce calls for the development of institutional and human capacities through concerted action in education and skills building.
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)’s IWD 2024 event aimed to collectively amplify the voices and contributions of women, paving the way for accelerated progress in renewable energy and beyond.
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to IRENA organised a joint event of the 13th edition of Renewables Talk for IRENA Permanent Representatives and the next edition of Women in Diplomacy, as part of the COP28 Changemakers’ Majlis initiative.
Africa’s fast-evolving renewable energy landscape is catalysing a shift in gender dynamics, with more women seizing employment opportunities than in the traditional energy sector, according to a new report.
The event aimed to increased awareness of the role of women in decentralized renewable energy and explored ways to increase their involvement in the industry.
Leveraging women’s participation as change agents can encourage, influence, and speed up the energy transformation.
Organised by the International Solar Energy Society (ISES), this webinar presented the IRENA report on Solar PV: a Gender Perspective. The report evaluates the role of women in the solar PV industry using the largest sample of global responses on solar PV energy and gender gathered to date.
This report, the third in IRENA’s gender perspective series, examines the participation of women in the solar PV sector.
With significant renewable energy potential, Indonesia is poised to achieve its target of 23 per cent share of renewables in total energy consumption by 2025 – if policy, technology, and finance are in place to support it.
This brief discusses the ’ecosystem’ necessary for linking electricity services through decentralised renewable energy with people’s livelihoods.
Based on a survey across the industry, this study tracks women’s employment, gender policies and perceptions of gender bias throughout the wind energy value chain.