The renowned biologist Sir David Attenborough once remarked that “An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfillment.”
Bonn, 1 August 2019 - The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and UN Climate Change (UNFCCC) are jointly ramping up efforts to fight climate change by promoting the widespread adoption and…
Sebastien Soleille, head of energy transition at BNP Paribas, explains how a raft of different financial measures and are helping to rapidly build out clean energy worldwide
The United Arab Emirates have launched the largest single solar power farm in the world, the 1.18-GW Noor Abu Dhabi, Endgadget reports citing a tweet by the Abu Dhabi government.
The UAE Ministry of Education and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) have signed an agreement to cooperate on the integration of renewable energy and sustainable development into the…
Francesco La Camera said many more jobs will be created than lost.
The fear of major job losses in traditional fossil fuel industries as the world shifts to renewable energy is a myth, the chief of…
A combination of renewable energy and electrification can reach 75% of the energy-related emission reductions necessary to meet global climate goals established by the Paris Agreement, a new report…
Agency to present grid integration solutions that can support the rapid scale up of variable renewable energy in G20 power systems
The G20 group of countries, whose members represent nearly 80 per…
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: – Eleven million people were employed in renewable energy worldwide in 2018 according to the latest analysis by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).…
The International Renewable Energy Agency released a report on May 29th reaffirming renewable power as the “cheapest source of electricity.
IRENA’s annual assessment of clean power economics has…
As ever, BP’s annual Energy Outlook has renewable energy making only a small primary energy contribution – around 4 billion tonnes of oil equivalent by 2040, i.e. 15% or, including hydro, 22%…
Sustained efforts are needed to deploy more renewables and improve electricity access for world's poorest, progress report warns
Without a step-change in global efforts to improve electricity access…
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has released a Renewable Energy Innovation Outlook series on how policy and technological breakthroughs for electrical vehicles (EVs) can advance the…
Photovoltaic plants and wind farms are contributing to national electrical grids across the world, with negligible downsides.
The year 2020 is expected to mark a high point in the use of renewable…
Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2 April 2019 – The decade-long trend of strong growth in renewable energy capacity continued in 2018 with global additions of 171 gigawatts (GW), according to new data released by the…
The plummeting cost of solar and wind farms, coupled with government policies driving faster electrification, has cut the cost of reaching global climate goals by US$15 trillion in the last year,…
If policymakers, businesses and investors across the world collaborate to scale-up renewable energy and to electrify sectors such as transport and heavy industry, 86% of the global power demand could…
The global installed capacity of renewable energy grew by nearly 8 per cent last year as clean energy sources grew to account for a third of all generation worldwide, according to new statistics from…