The Director General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) on Monday spoke of the need to transition away from fossil fuels and towards renewables during a COP28.

Francesco La Camera, director general of the International Renewable Energy Agency, said it’s possible to meet the renewable energy goal and welcome the commitment from the international community.

Al Arabiya English speaks to Francesco La Camera, the Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), on the sidelines of COP28 summit in Dubai.

The IRENA Director-General spoke to Al Arabiya English about the Middle East energy mix and its stance on a phase-down versus the phase-out of fossil fuels.

قال المدير العام للوكالة الدولية للطاقة المتجددة، إن الدعوة إلى مضاعفة القدرات المتجددة الثلاثية جاءت من التحليل الذي أجرته الوكالة.

In an interview with VOA, Francesco La Camera, director general of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) said, “We believe it is the most realistic course-correction to urgently accelerate the global energy transition away from fossil fuels, trigger systematic change and overcome the barriers stemming from fossil fuels.”

Is the goal of limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius still realistic? Director General of the International Renewable Energy Agency, Francesco La Camera, explains.

Director General of IRENA told Al-Ittihad: The UAE is making amazing progress in renewable energy.

Green hydrogen could be the solution for sectors that rely on fossil fuels for energy and remain difficult to electrify as climate change remains a challenge, Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Francesco La Camera says.

The Director-General of IRENA explains why it is necessary to focus on the energy transition, the acceleration of which would have a positive impact on GDP and employment.

This week, the European Commission presented its hydrogen strategy. It sets out how to make clean hydrogen a viable solution for a climate-neutral economy and build a dynamic hydrogen value chain in Europe in the next five years, write Kadri Simson and Francesco La Camera.

Interview with Francesco La Camera, Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

Francesco La Camera, Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), describes why India is at the epicentre of advancing the global conversation on energy transition.

There has never been a more important moment to embrace a low-carbon future in Southeast Asia. Covid-19 has served as a startling reminder of the potentially catastrophic consequences of existential threats like a global pandemic, and in doing so has impressed upon all of us the potential perils of a warming planet. For a just and sustainable recovery that averts the devastation threatened by climate change, swift and far-sighted policy interventions are needed now.

According to many experts, the most likely energy scenario after the coronavirus pandemic is that the biggest world economies will be battered by a massive recession, cut investments in favour of clean energy. Fortune Italia has asked Francesco La Camera, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Director-General, for his opinion.

New forms of ocean energy are gaining interest globally, and because European companies are leaders on tidal and wave technologies, that is good news for the environment and for the European economy, argues Francesco la Camera.

This pandemic may be Donald Trump's chance to fulfill his promise to rebuild US infrastructure, while also leveling the energy field for renewables. Trillions are needed but nothing as far-reaching as a Green New Deal will result. "Economic recovery packages must serve to accelerate the transition," says the International Renewable Energy Agency’s (IRENA) Director General, Francesco La Camera.

"We publish an important analysis by Achim Steiner, administrator of the UN Development Program, and by Francesco La Camera, Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)."

Clean and resilient energy provides a safe and strategic investment choice as $8 trillion is spent on virus stimulus packages. COVID-19 is a global health crisis unlike any in recent history, one that is spreading human suffering, destabilizing the global economy and upending the lives of billions of people around the globe.

The short-term prospects for wind and solar power look rocky amid the economic upheaval of the coronavirus. Leaders must seize the opportunity to design economic recovery packages so they accelerate a shift toward wind and solar power, rather than propping up the fossil fuel economy, said Francesco La Camera, Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency, an intergovernmental body.

Debate on Radio Radicale conducted by Valeria Manieri and Ruggero Po, with guests Francesco La Camera (Director-General of the International Agency for Renewable Energy - IRENA), Alessandro Motta (Deputy Ambassador to London Plenipotentiary Minister, member of the UK-Ita Joint Task Force for Cop26), and Donato Speroni (contact person of the ASviS secretariat in the Working Group on Goal 7 on clean and accessible energy, and 13 on the fight against climate change).

Renewable energy represents not only a tool to reduce climate heating, but also a deep, largely untapped pool of job and wealth creation, writes Francesco La Camera, director general, International Renewable Energy Agency.

With 85 per cent of the world’s energy emissions produced outside the US, the president-elect must take his agenda overseas. A global energy transition is “already in place and unstoppable” but the pandemic is helping the “old energy world” hold on to its place, according to the head of the International Renewable Energy Agency.