Seventeenth Meeting of the IRENA Council
25 – 26 June 2019 |Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
The seventeenth meeting of the Council will take place on 25 and 26 June 2019 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
IRENA’s ninth Assembly elected the following countries to serve on the Council in 2019: Antigua and Barbuda, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, China, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Germany, Japan, Kiribati, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Mexico, Mozambique, Republic of Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and United States of America. Argentina, Bangladesh, Chad, Cyprus, El Salvador, Italy, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines act as alternates.
Two committees currently assist the Council in its work:
Administration and Finance Committee
- Chair: Antigua & Barbuda
- Members: Bangladesh, the Dominican Republic and Zimbabwe
Programme and Strategy Committee
- Chair: Unites States of America
- Vice-chair: Samoa
- Members: Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, the Dominican Republic, Germany, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Philippines
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IRENA at EU Sustainable Energy Week 2019 in Brussels
17 June 2019 |Brussels, Belgium
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