Bonn, 23 June 2023 (WWEA) – Following an invite from the Worldwide Renewable Vitality Company to offer enter for the 2024-2025 Work Programme, WWEA has submitted feedback. As an early adopter and supporter of IRENA 20 years in the past, WWEA appreciates that IRENA has grow to be an necessary pillar and information hub for the worldwide transition to a renewable vitality economic system. The knowledge supplied by IRENA serves as steerage to worldwide organisations and governments all over the world.
WWEA has put ahead quite a few proposals to make IRENA’s work simpler:
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- To attain the Paris objectives, will probably be important to assist the setting of science-based and impressive 100% renewable vitality targets. Roadmaps with interim targets and applied sciences are additionally wanted.
- IRENA ought to be certain that, whereas working at a world stage, it integrates the views and pursuits of all related renewable vitality stakeholders. Particularly, smaller, native actors have a key function to play within the international vitality transition in mobilising the required social, monetary and political sources.
- Accordingly, decentralised options would require extra consideration, each technically and economically, to satisfy the upper renewable vitality targets set by nationwide governments.
- IRENA also needs to be certain that the info supplied is correct and unbiased and doesn’t replicate the views of any specific group.
- IRENA’s coverage recommendation needs to be based mostly on a broad socio-economic evaluation of all components related to nationwide economies and the well-being of residents in several socio-economic circumstances, together with impacts on native economies, entry to reasonably priced vitality, gender facets, job creation, and many others.
- WWEA acknowledges IRENA’s concentrate on organise a simply vitality transition, with specific emphasis on good jobs and dealing situations. WWEA recommends that IRENA broaden this method to incorporate how the worth generated by means of renewable vitality might be shared extra extensively, for instance by way of extra decentralised possession.
- Native possession and democratic management of vitality techniques that use “free for all” sources reminiscent of photo voltaic radiation or wind is a key facet of a profitable vitality transition. That is much more necessary within the so-called growing international locations, the place there are big funding wants and the place new funding fashions could also be required.
WWEA, together with in its capability as Chair of the Group Vitality Working Group of the IRENA Coalition for Motion, is able to proceed to contribute to the achievement of the above targets and past.
