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Irena promotes renewable resources and technologies to sustain future and help countries
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IRENA PROMOTES RENEWABLE RESOURCES AND TECHNOLOGIES TO SUSTAIN FUTURE AND HELP COUNTRIES
ABU DHABI, 10th January 2019 - The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is an intergovernmental organization that supports countries in their transition to a sustainable future, and serves as the principal platform for international cooperation, a center of excellence, and a repository of policy, technology resource and financial knowledge on renewable energy. IRENA promotes the widespread adoption and sustainable use of all forms of renewable energy, including bioenergy, geothermal, hydropower, ocean, solar and wind energy in the pursuit of sustainable development, energy access, energy security and low carbon economic growth and prosperity.
With a mandate from countries around the world, IRENA encourages governments to adopt enabling policies for renewable energy investments, provides practical tools and policy advice to accelerate renewable energy deployment, and facilitates knowledge sharing and technology transfer to provide clean, sustainable energy for the world’s growing population.
In line with these aims, IRENA provides a wide range of products and services, including:
- Annual reviews of renewable energy employment;
- Renewable energy capacity statistics;
- Renewable energy cost studies;
- Renewable Readiness Assessments, conducted in partnership with governments and regional organizations, to help boost renewable energy development on a country by country basis;
- The Global Atlas, which maps resource potential by source and by location;
- Renewable energy benefit studies;
- Remap, a roadmap to double renewable energy use worldwide by 2030;
- Renewable energy technology briefs;
- Facilitation of regional renewable energy planning;