initiatives
- Clean Energy Corridors
- Coalition for Action
- Global Atlas
- INSPIRE
- IRENA/ADFD Project Facility
- Legislators Forum
- Project Navigator
- REmap
- Renewables Readiness Assessments
- SIDS Lighthouses
Meet the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to IRENA
South Korea aims to install 48 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy capacity by 2030, enough to supply 20 per cent of its domestic power needs. With a 4GW solar and wind complex under development including a record breaking 3GW solar park, the...
- February 2019
Strong Ties Between Public and Private Sectors Key to Accelerating Renewables
A new strategic paper by IRENA’s Coalition for Action, Towards 100% Renewable Energy, shows more than 50 countries and over 280 states, regions and cities have already committed to some sort of 100% renewable energy target.
- February 2019
To Make the Energy Transformation a Success, Be Unafraid to Fail
During a Ministerial Roundtable at IRENA’s 9th Assembly, government officials gathered to examine new, disruptive innovations emerging that are changing the ways in which energy systems are configured and operate.
- January 2019
Gender Equality for an Inclusive Energy Transition
The global energy landscape is witnessing a rapid and wide-ranging change driven by an unprecedented growth of renewables. Adopting a gender perspective to renewables development is important to ensure that women’s skills and views are part of...
- January 2019
IRENA Ninth Assembly Live
High-Level Segment about IRENA's activity over the last eight years "Taking Stock of Progress"; The Next Director-General of IRENA will be announced tonight.
- January 2019
Optimism and Opportunity Evident as Delegates Gather for IRENA9A
Representatives from more than 160 countries, the private sector and civil society are gathering to discuss key issues in the global energy transition and chart the way forward for the Agency against a backdrop of remarkable progress on deployment.
- January 2019
IRENA Pre-Assembly Live Coverage
2019 Legislatrors Forum is focused on the theme of parliamentary actions to accelerate the energy transformation in reaching the goal of universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030 The delegates at...
- January 2019
How Global Energy Transformed in 2018
The global energy system is undergoing rapid transformation. Here are 20 reminders, from media outlets around the world, of how the energy transformation has advanced over the last 12 months.
- January 2019
Caribbean Embraces New Geothermal Resource Classification
IRENA and partners pilot for the first time at a regional level a system to encourage investment in geothermal projects.
- December 2018