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Mission Statement
REN21 convenes international multistakeholder leadership to enable a rapid global transition to renewable energy. REN21 promotes renewable energy to meet the needs of both industrialised and developing countries that are driven by climate change, energy security, development and poverty alleviation.

Goals
The overarching goal of REN21 is the promotion of policies that will increase the wise use of renewable energy worldwide. In order to achieve this objective, REN21 encourages action in three areas: Policy, Advocacy, and Exchange.

REN21 convenes and engages key leaders and stakeholders in national legislation and international processes. REN21 and its participants encourage the inclusion of renewable energy matters in the deliberations of appropriate meetings and venues, and target relevant political processes, such as CSD 14 and 15, meetings of the G8, UNFCCC, and the MDG review by the UN General Assembly.

REN21 encourages political support for the strengthening of regulatory environments and market structures that lead to accelerating use of renewable energy in developed and developing countries and emerging economies, and to expanded access to public and private financing.

REN21 encourages countries to meet commitments to renewable energy (particularly in the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation and in the International Action Programme of the renewables 2004 conference) and helps document and report on progress.

REN21 advocates the deployment of renewable energy as a critical component of strategies to increase access to energy services and to alleviate poverty in developing countries, and as a necessary component of environmentally and economically sound energy regimes in all countries, in particular addressing climate change and energy security.

By combining their experiences and expertise, by hosting high profile international events, and by producing authoritative and influential issue papers, REN21 participants improve the understanding of the value and essential contribution of renewable energy in achieving sustainable development, and promote attention to the opportunities associated with the expanded use of renewable energy.

REN21 promotes knowledge generation and exchange by providing links among knowledge bases on renewable energy market and policy developments, and by working to ensure that gaps in the knowledge base are effectively filled by capable organisations and individuals.

By encouraging ongoing dialogues, joint work, and transparency among a diverse community of government ministries, international organisations, and stakeholder groups on priority issues regarding the role and expansion of renewable energy, REN21 is a catalyst for specific contributions, capacity building, and policy advice for consideration by relevant national and international bodies.

REN21 enables its participants to share experiences and best practices, to benefit from detailed and practical knowledge, and to engage in common analysis and review, as well as informal and frank debates.

Facilitating exchange among the community, REN21 is working together with the REEEP Partnership to build the Reegle Information Gateway, a one-stop-shop for high quality, up-to-date information on renewable energy, energy efficiency and key industry actors.



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3 Feb 2010
Global wind power boom continues despite economic woes
The Global Wind Energy Council today announced that the world’s wind power capacity grew by 31% in 2009, adding 37.5GW to bring total installations up to 157.9GW.

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6 Jan 2010
Renewables Interactive Map published by REN21
The map contains a wealth of information on renewable energy, including support policies, expansion targets, current shares, installed capacity, current production, future scenarios, and policy pledges.

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3 Dec 2009
IRENA and REN21 Side Event at COP15 in Copenhagen
On 15 December, IRENA and REN21 together with IEA, RETD, EREC and Greenpeace will present the leading renewable energy scenarios to show how renewables can help meet CO2 reduction targets and secure affordable energy supply.

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2 Dec 2009
REN21 Steering Committee member was named to head Greece Public Power Corp
Greece named renewable energy expert Arthouros Zervos to head state-controlled Public Power Corp (PPC), the country's biggest electricity provider.

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26 Nov 2009
The Economics of Renewable Energy - True Costs and Value
A one-day experts meeting hosted jointly by IEA and REN21 will take place on November 30th, 2009 in Paris. The purpose of the meeting is to take a close look at alternative approaches to the levelized generation cost methodology and to discuss implications for energy modeling and energy policy. The outcome of the discussion will provide initial guidance for further analysis of the economics of electricity generation, in particular, renewable energy technologies.

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16 Oct 2009
Recommendations for Improving the Effectiveness of Renewable Energy Policies in China
REN21 released its report today with key recommenda-
tions to decision makers in China.

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02 Oct 2009
Pledge submission online
The online submission is now available to all governments and stakeholders with interests in expressing their voluntary actions towards advancing renewable energy deployment and policy development.

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30 Sept 2009
Delhi International Renewable Energy Conference (DIREC) 2010
REN21 will be a key partner to the Indian Government in organising the conference and setting the themes.

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30 Sept 2009
REN21 Ninth Steering Committee Meeting
The ninth meeting of the REN21 Steering Committee took place in New Delhi from 10-11 September 2009.

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