Opinions and Interviews
'Forgotten workhorse' hydropower needs government support, energy leaders say
Governments must provide incentives to help drive investment in hydropower as the “forgotten workhorse” if the world is to meet pledges to cut emissions and combat climate change, energy agencies said on Wednesday. Francesco La Camera, director of The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) said that a post-coronavirus economic recovery should involve a jump in annual investments in hyrdropower from $22 billion to $55 billion to 2030.
03 February 2021 | Interview | Reuters
Renewables Chief Hails ‘Crucial’ Biden Climate Agenda As Administration Plans Massive Energy Overhaul
The International Renewable Energy Agency has hailed the U.S. decision to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord as a “crucial” step forward in the fight against climate change. “It means a lot for the renewable world, and for the energy transition,” Francesco La Camera, Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency told CNBC at the Atlantic Council’s annual Global Energy Forum.
25 January 2021 | Interview | CNBC
Using solar power and green hydrogen, the road ahead can look bright
When we look back at the history of global development, the year 2015 will be remembered as a turning point. It was a year during which both the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement were established. Both those events marked a period of collective global intent to bend the curve of rising emissions and reverse the world's growing inequalities. It was a year of renewed multilateralism, of hope and ambition.
21 January 2021 | Opinions | The National
Catalysing the energy transition with green hydrogen
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.
16 December 2020 | Opinions | Global Governance Project - G20 Issue
Modi is set to virtually lay the foundation stones for the world's largest hybrid renewable energy park at Khavda and a desalination plant in Mandvi along the Arabian Sea coast. (DG Intervention + Italian)
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).
14 December 2020 | Interview | Agenzia ANSA
Biden’s climate agenda goes global (Subscription)
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.
03 December 2020 | Interview | Financial Times
IRENA chief: EU geothermal capacity could grow eight-fold by 2050
Geothermal is increasingly cost-competitive with wind and solar power and can work together with them to create a reliable supply of renewable energy, according to Francesco La Camera, who sees geothermal capacity growing up to eight-fold in the EU by mid-century.
01 December 2020 | Interview | EURACTIV
La Camera: 'For global energy transition, 2 trillion dollars need to be invested in the coming 3 years' (Italian)
"We have published an agenda to make this tragedy turn into an opportunity. According to our estimates, we need a total of 2 trillion dollars of investments in the energy transition in the three-year period from 2021 to 2023. It is a question of doubling the efforts in the three years and then go to an average of $ 4.9 trillion in investments until 2030; and then 130 trillion by 2050 ". This was stated by Francesco La Camera , IRENA Director-General, speaking at the Fortune Italia Sustainability Forum.
25 November 2020 | Interview | Adnkronos
La Camera: "More competitive, transition already underway before Covid" (Italian)
"The energy transition was already underway even before Covid. So in the last 7-8 years the installed capacity of renewable energy has progressively exceeded the installed capacity with fossil fuel plants and the distance between the two paths has increased year after. year". This was stated by Francesco La Camera
25 November 2020 | Interview | Adnkronos
Pandemic, Renewable Energy and Job Creation (Indonesian)
The energy transition is an investment in jobs, growth, and in a stable and resilient future. ASEAN countries - including Indonesia - can put themselves at the forefront of a sustainable future.
21 November 2020 | Opinions | Kompas Daily