ABU DHABI // The International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) gathered representatives from more than 90 countries to recommend actions to scale-up renewable energy around the world.
The two-day meeting opened a day after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report warning that failure to decarbonise energy resources by 2100 could result in climate-change induced poverty, hunger and mass extinction of flora and fauna.
“As momentum builds around the climate issue, so does the focus on renewable energy – because not only can renewable energy combined with energy efficiency keep the global climate to a two degree temperature rise, it can do so affordably,” said Adnan Amin, director general of Irena.
The council also discussed strategies to increase Irena’s engagement in the global climate change effort.
“Irena has developed both global and regional initiatives to find solutions through technical support and through findings to initiate a path to a more sustainable world,” said Ramon Mendez, chairman of the council and a secretary of energy in Uruguay.
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