Fostering Livelihoods with Decentralised Renewable Energy: An Ecosystems Approach
This brief discusses the ’ecosystem’ necessary for linking electricity services through decentralised renewable energy with people’s livelihoods.
This brief discusses the ’ecosystem’ necessary for linking electricity services through decentralised renewable energy with people’s livelihoods.
This report examines the question of gender equity throughout sector. Building on a ground-breaking survey, it finds that much remains to be done to boost women’s participation and allow talents to be fully utilised.
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.
This report, the third in IRENA’s gender perspective series, examines the participation of women in the solar PV sector.
EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) will take place in Brussels and IRENA will be present, widely contributing to the 3-day policy conference.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In Nigeria, a new solar energy initiative is providing the community with an affordable source of energy, and empowering women through access to income-generation activates.
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.
Leveraging women’s participation as change agents can encourage, influence, and speed up the energy transformation.