The Future of Wind report highlights the growth needed in wind power to achieve Paris climate goals. It also offers insights on cost-reduction opportunities, technology trends and the need to prepare electricity grids for rising shares of wind power.
The 2019 Asia and the Pacific Renewable Energy Status Report provides a comprehensive overview of renewable energy developments in the world’s largest and fastest growing region, covering 18 selected countries across five sub-regions.
This policy brief Making Infrastructure Resource Efficient identifies a critical need to decouple economic growth from the extraction and use of natural resources. Increasing the resource efficiency of infrastructure can be a major driver of the transition to sustainable development.
Taxing Energy Use 2019 presents a snapshot of where countries stand in deploying energy and carbon taxes, tracks progress made, and makes actionable recommendations on how governments could do better. Tax rates and tax coverage are detailed by country, sector, energy source and tax type.
The Renewables 2019 Global Status Report marks 15 years since Bonn2004, the landmark international conference that gave rise to the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21). Then, a “coalition of the willing” came together with one objective in mind: to support and accelerate the development of renewable energy. From the outset, REN21’s mandate has been to collect, consolidate and synthesise a vast body of renewable energy data to provide clear and reliable information on what is happening in real time. This mandate still holds today.
The study Guyana Green Economy Modelling Study: Technical report serves to inform the actions of the Government of Guyana to achieve the emissions reduction commitments of the country under the climate agreement. It will also effectively support the main objectives of the GSDS, such as increasing economic diversification and growth, social inclusiveness, and sustainable management of natural resources.