REN21 (Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century)
General
Name of initiative | REN21 (Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century) |
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LPAA initiative | No |
NAZCA Initiative | No |
Website address | http://www.ren21.net/ |
Related initiatives | |
Starting year | 2005 |
End year | |
Secretariat | REN21 Secretariat Address:
Address: c/o UN Environment Programme 1 rue Miollis 75015 Paris, France Phone +33 1 44 37 50 91 Email: secretariat@ren21.net |
Organisational structure | REN21 is made up of a community of actors from science, governments, NGOs and industry. Our Steering Committee represents the REN21 community, providing strategic direction to REN21’s work programme. This is the main governing entity of REN21. The Bureau is made up of the REN21 President and Executive Director, and seven Steering Committee members. |
Geographical coverage | Global, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and The Caribbean, Africa, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America |
Name of lead organisation | REN21 |
Type of lead organisation | NGO/Civil Society |
Location/Nationality of lead organisation | France |
Description
Description | REN21 is the only global renewable energy community of actors from science, governments, NGOs and industry. We provide up-to-date and peer-reviewed facts, figures and analysis of global developments in technology, policies and markets. Our goal: enable decision-makers to make the shift to renewable energy happen – now. |
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Objectives | - Providing policy-relevant information and research based analysis on renewable energy to decision makers, multipliers and the public to catalyse policy Change
- Offering a platform for interconnection between multi-stakeholder actors working in the renewable energy field worldwide and identifying barriers as well as working to bridge existing gaps to increase the large-scale deployment of renewable energy worldwide. |
Activities | Compilation of reports for political and technical dialogue. |
One or two success stories achieved |
Monitoring and Impacts
Function of initiative | Political dialogue, Technical dialogue | ||||||||
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Activity of initiative | Policy planning and recommendations, Knowledge dissemination and exchange, Knowledge production and innovation | ||||||||
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Knowledge dissemination and exchange — Workshops and meetings for exchanging the knowledge
Knowledge production and innovation — Knowledge production or publication produced
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Goals | |||||||||
Comments on indicators and goals | Several workshops held every year, and several reports produced every year. | ||||||||
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Available reporting | The REN21 annual report for 2020 is available at: |
Participants
Participants | Number | Names | ||||||||
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Members | 96 | |||||||||
Companies | 0 | |||||||||
Business organisations | 23 | ACORE (USA), ALER (Portugal), Africa Minigrid Developers Association (Kenya), Alliance for Rural Electrification (Belgium), APREN (Portugal), Alliance for Rural Electrification (Belgium), CDP (United K.), Clean Energy Council (Australia), CREIA (China), European Heat Pump Association -EHPA (Belgium), European Renewable Energy Association (Belgium), Euroheat & Power (Belgium), GOGLA (Netherlands), Global Solar Council (USA), GWEC (Belgium), International Geothermal Association-IGA (Netherlands), International Hydropower Association-IHA (United K.), Indian Renewable Energy Federation (India), RE100 (United K.), RES4Africa (Italy), Solar Power Europe (Belgium), World Bioenergy Association (Sweden), World Wind Energy Association (Germany). | ||||||||
Research and educational organisations | 10 | AEE Institute for Sustainable Technologies (Germany), Centre for Energy Environment and Water-CEEW (India), Fundacion Bariloche (Argentina), Higher School of Economics (Russia), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria), ISES (Germany), NREL (USA), National Research University Higher School of Economics Russia (Russia), SANEDI (South Africa), TERI (India). | ||||||||
Non-governmental organisations | 27 | CAN (germany), Coalition de Ciudades Capitales de las mericas-CC35 (USA), Clean Cooking Alliance (USA), CLASP (USA), Club-ER (France), Energy Cities (Belgium), FER (Spain), Global Forum on Sustainable Energy (Austria), Global 100% RE (Germany).
Greenpeace International (Netherlands) , GWNET Global Women's Network for the Energy Transition (Austria), ICLEI (Germany), IEC International Electrotechnical Commission (Switzerland), ISEP Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (Japan), Jeunes Volontaires pour l'Environnement (Togo), Mali Folkecenter (Mali), PowerForALL (Kenya), REEEP (Austria), Renewable Energy Institute (Japan), Renewables Grid Initiative (Germany), Solar Cookers International (India), Sustainable Energy for All (Denmark), SLOCAT Partnership on sustainable, low carbon transport (Belgium), World Council for Renewable Energy (USA), World Future Council (Germany), World Resources Institute (USA), World Wildlife Federation (USA). | ||||||||
National states | 0 | |||||||||
Governmental actors | 15 | Afghanistan, Austria, Brazil, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Germany, India, Mexico, Norway, Republic of Korea, South Africa, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United States | ||||||||
Regional / state / county actors | 1 | South Australia | ||||||||
City / municipal actors | 0 | |||||||||
Intergovernmental organisations | 14 | ADB (Asian Development Bank (Philippines), APERC (Japan), ECREEE (Cape Verde), European Commission (Belgium), GEF (USA), IEA (France), IRENA (United Arab Emirates), IsDB (Saudi Arabia), OLADE (Equador), RCREEE (Egypt), UNDP (USA), UNEP (Kenya), UNIDO (Austria), World Bank (USA). | ||||||||
Financial Institutions | 0 | |||||||||
Faith based organisations | 0 | |||||||||
Other members | 6 | Michael Eckhart
Mohamed El-Ashry David Hales Kirsty Hamilton Peter Rae Arthouros Zervos | ||||||||
Supporting partners | 0 | |||||||||
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Have only national states as participators | No |
Theme
Transport | Agriculture | Forestry | Business | Financial institutions | Buildings | Industry | Waste | Cities and subnational governments | Short Term Pollutants | International maritime transport | Energy Supply | Fluorinated gases | Energy efficiency | Renewable energy | Supply chain emission reductions | Adaptation | Other | Resilience | Innovation | Energy Access and Efficiency | Private Finance |
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Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Last update: 25 April 2022 14:08:57
Not only have national states as participators