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.
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.
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’.