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Renewable Energy and Jobs – Annual Review 2020 - International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA
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ISBN: 978-92-9260-266-6
Citation: IRENA (2020), Renewable Energy and Jobs – Annual Review 2020, International Renewable Energy Agency, Abu Dhabi.
ABOUT IRENA
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is an intergovernmental organisation that supports countries in their transition to a sustainable energy future and serves as the principal platform for international co-operation, a centre of excellence, and a repository of policy, technology, resource and financial knowledge on renewable energy. IRENA promotes the widespread adoption and sustainable use of all forms of renewable energy, including bioenergy, geothermal, hydropower, ocean, solar and wind energy, in the pursuit of sustainable development, energy access, energy security and low-carbon economic growth and prosperity.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This report was authored by Rabia Ferroukhi, Michael Renner, Celia García-Baños, Samah Elsayed (IRENA), and Arslan Khalid (consultant), with support from William Brent (consultant).
The report greatly benefitted from modelling work on hydropower undertaken by Ulrike Lehr and Maximilian Banning (GWS).
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MESSAGE FROM THE
IRENA DIRECTOR-GENERAL
Francesco La Camera
Director-General International Renewable Energy Agency
As the world grapples with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the close connections between the natural environment, our economies and human well-being have taken centre stage. A clean, reliable energy supply and durable, healthy, low-carbon job creation are essential components to the transformative decarbonisation of our societies.
Renewable energy, now predominant in new electric power capacity, has proven especially flexible, cost-effective, and resilient in the face of the 2020 health and economic crisis. Even better, renewables create numerous and diverse jobs. Last year, jobs in the sector worldwide reached an estimated 11.5 million, continuing a long-term growth trend.
If countries now focus on supercharging the energy transition, many more such benefits are attainable. The post-COVID agenda put forward by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) would create some 5.5 million transition-related jobs over the next three years, bring renewables jobs to nearly 30 million globally by 2030 and pave the way for longer-term resilience, development and equality.
Already, renewable energy employment reflects the emergence of innovative technologies. Solar photovoltaics (PV) – a segment that looked almost avant-garde just a decade ago – accounts today for some 3.8 million jobs, or nearly a third of the sector total. Growing shares of those jobs are off-grid, supporting productive use in farming, food processing and healthcare in previously remote, isolated, energy-poor communities. In parallel, rural areas benefit from the feedstock production that underpins bioenergy and which accounts for the bulk of about 3.6 million jobs in that segment.
Wind power now employs 1.2 million people, over one fifth of them women. Sector-wide, renewables show a better gender balance (32% women) than fossil fuels (22%), although much remains to be done to even the playing field for women and tap into their talents and ideas.
The transition to carbon neutrality by mid-century calls for an expanded skills base, requiring more vocational training, stronger curricula, dedicated teacher training and enhanced technology use for remote learning focused on forward-looking energy systems. An ambitious package of policies and investments centred on renewables can create new jobs, leverage existing domestic industries, soften the blow of today’s economic turbulence and where needed open new opportunities for workers losing jobs in conventional energy. Building up local value chains will widen the benefits further.