IRENA Opens Council Meeting Amid Global Calls for Expanding Renewable Energy (StreetInsider.com)
The
International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) gathered representatives from over 90 countries in Abu Dhabi to review and recommend actions to scale-up renewable energy around the world. The two-day meeting opened on the heels of
the release of the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which recommended the decarbonisation of the world's energy mix by 2100.
"Any solution to address climate change requires a massive scale-up in renewable energy," said IRENA Director-General Adnan Z. Amin. "And 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."
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