Renewable Energy Benefits: Measuring the Economics
This report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) provides the first quantification of the macroeconomic impact of doubling the global share of renewables in the energy mix by 2030.
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Policies and regulations for private sector renewable energy mini-grids
The report examines the specificities of mini-grids connected to solar, biomass, wind and small hydropower, or some combination of these with other energy sources, and discusses the key factors influencing investors in mini-grid projects.
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Renewable Energy and Jobs – Annual Review 2017
This report presents the status of renewable energy employment, both by technology and in selected countries, over the past year. In this fourth edition, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) finds that renewable energy employed 9.8 million people around the world in 2016 – a 1.1% increase over 2015.
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Untapped potential for climate action: Renewable energy in Nationally Determined Contributions
IRENA has analysed climate pledges under the Paris Agreement in relation to national energy plans and actual deployment trends. In many cases, Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) have not kept up with recent, rapid growth in renewables.
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REthinking Energy: Renewable Energy and Climate Change
The second edition of REthinking Energy – the flagship report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) – looks at how the transition to renewables could help avert catastrophic global warming. As the report points out, renewable energy is at the core of any strategy for countries to meet climate goals while supporting economic growth, employment and domestic value creation.
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Renewable Energy Technology Innovation Policy: A process development guide
Countries can use the “RETIP” process outlined in this handbook to design appropriate innovation strategies for renewable energy technologies.
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Renewable Energy Target Setting
What are renewable energy targets? Why set a renewable energy target? How should they be designed and translated into specific policy instruments?
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The Power to Change: Solar and Wind Cost Reduction Potential to 2025
Increasing economies of scale, more competitive supply chains and further technological improvements will continue reducing the costs of solar and wind power. The same factors will also boost the availability of these key renewable power sources at night and in varying weather conditions.
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Renewable Energy Policies in a Time of Transition
This report, prepared jointly by IRENA, the IEA and REN21, identifies key barriers and highlights policy options to boost renewable energy deployment.
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EventsIRENA at the 138th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly
From 14 - 18 October 2018, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) will actively engage with Parliamentarians during the 138th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
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Events2021 IRENA Legislators Forum – Parliamentary actions to scale up renewable investments: Renewable energy as an enabler of services
The Forum convened parliamentary leaders from across the world to discuss global, regional and local agendas relating to a renewables-based energy transition and served as a platform for substantive dialogue amongst legislators and renewable energy experts on the acceleration of the deployment of renewables.
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EventsIRENA Legislators' Dialogue — Renewables as an enabler of services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
The first IRENA Legislators' Dialogue was structured under the theme ‘Renewables as an enabler of services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic’.
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Events2017 IRENA Legislators Forum
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Events2022 IRENA Legislators Forum Parliamentary and regulatory actions to drive national energy transition policies
The Forum presented a timely opportunity for inclusive and diverse discussions on actions and most up-to-date policy measures that can guide Legislators in supporting countries to shift the energy transition to the implementation phase of national and international commitments.
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When Nothing Else Makes Sense, Renewables Do
Public-Private Dialogue at IRENA’s 8th Assembly highlights what governments and businesses can do to unlock investment in renewable energy.
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