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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