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?
What are renewable energy targets? Why set a renewable energy target? How should they be designed and translated into specific policy instruments?
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.
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.
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.
Countries can use the “RETIP” process outlined in this handbook to design appropriate innovation strategies for renewable energy technologies.
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.
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.
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.
This report, prepared jointly by IRENA, the IEA and REN21, identifies key barriers and highlights policy options to boost renewable energy deployment.
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
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.
The first IRENA Legislators' Dialogue was structured under the theme ‘Renewables as an enabler of services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic’.
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.
Public-Private Dialogue at IRENA’s 8th Assembly highlights what governments and businesses can do to unlock investment in renewable energy.
IRENA's second Legislators Dialogue brought together parliamentarians of the G20 countries and from the Global South to discuss policy frameworks needed to turn climate adaptation commitments into action.