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World Energy Transitions Outlook: 1.5◦C Pathway

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World Energy Transitions Outlook: 1.5◦C Pathway
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Plenary Session I, 9:20-9:40, Thursday, 23 June 2022
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Transkript: Englisch(automatisch erzeugt)
Now, we have our second keynote speaker, representative from IRENA, the International Renewable Energy Agency, which is also an intergovernmental organization to support countries in the energy transition. The lady is associate professional with master's degree in renewable energy
and a diploma also in industrial engineering. So please welcome Ms. Paola Nadona. OK. Good morning, everyone.
I hope you know my nice seat so I can handle everything here. I am very, very happy to be joining you today. Before joining IRENA, I used to be a wind energy developer. So everything related with this awesome technology, I very much enjoy today learning from you.
So I would like to give you a very brief, I will keep it short. I know we are a little bit over time. Very brief introduction of what we are doing at IRENA in general and in relation to the technology that concerns us today.
So first of all, just in case, who we are? We are the International Renewable Energy Agency. As such, we are mandated by member countries. Today, we are near global universal membership with 167 member countries and almost 20 countries
in accession. We have our headquarters in Abu Dhabi. We also have technical divisions in Germany. This is where I am actually. It's the Innovation and Technology Center located in Bonn. And we have also an office in New York.
As an international intergovernmental organization, we are mandated by member countries. And what we do is we support them. Our mandate is to support them and deploy the energy transition with sustainable green and resilient energy systems.
If I have to tell very, very briefly what we do, we have two big, big pillars of daily activities, let's say. One of it is a technical analysis.
So basically, we have different divisions on statistics, research, policy, market framework, technology, innovation, among other topics. Working on technical analysis, so technical briefs, guidelines,
reports, both on the global scale, regional, and also country on even city-wide scale when this is requested by our member countries. Another, the second big, big pillar that is taking much importance in the last years,
I would say, is the convening and the networking. And one of our key activities here are, as you see, the public-private collaborative frameworks. We have a couple of them. Some are newer than others, such as geopolitics, green hydrogen, hydropower.
But there is one main one, offshore renewables, which is especially important for us today because it is actually the collaborative framework in which we tackle offshore renewables and such airborne wind energy systems.
We also, as I told you, I come from the Innovation and Technology Center, and for us, it's very important. There are two events, very, very important every year, which are the IRENA Innovation Week and Innovation Day, in which we present
every innovation and emerging technology topic that we analyze yearly at the agency. I wanted to bring very briefly today some key results of one of our flagship reports, or our flagship report, let's say,
which is the World Energy Transition Outlook, which tells us basically that we need to decrease by mid-century 36.9 gigatons of CO2 emissions. And how? We believe that there are six main,
let's say, technological avenues to be able to achieve this target. Basically, the main one is renewables, renewable power. Second, energy efficiency in the demand side sector, especially focusing on end-use sectors.
Cell one, electrification, basically focusing on the industry and transport sector. Hydrogen, focusing on green hydrogen, and in the industry sector. And then, of course, CCS technologies for the remaining part of fossil fuel
and bioenergy as of 2050. So this is the target. And here, very briefly, you can see what would, as part of the report, we've plotted what would be,
what would happen in case we keep on doing the same things as we are doing it now. So you can see the orange line, which is basically where we will be standing in the medium term. And by 2050, in case we implement the most updated NDCs climate targets,
climate commitments, and LTLEDS, communicated by countries as of last year. And then with the blue line is basically where we need to be. So to achieve net zero by mid-century. So you can see the area between the two lines is the gap.
And so far, if we keep on doing the same, it's quite a big gap of around 20, in the energy sector, 20 gigatons of CO2. And just a note, the orange line, the COP announcements considers
that both conditional and unconditional commitments are going to be achieved. So this is an optimistic scenario in which financing would be available for every country. It is not only a question of climate.
It's not only a question of CO2 emissions. A couple of years ago, we have committed with the SDGs to have 100% by 2030, 100% electricity access and clean cooking. And very similar to the graph before,
if we keep on doing the same things, if we keep on being such aggressive as we are now, we are definitely going to miss the target by the target year. So I said a couple of slides. Before, 36.9 gigatons of CO2 emission reductions.
The question is how? And the good news for us, as presented by our colleagues before, is that we see that a big role will be played by wind. Of course, also you can see a key role for Solar PV, but still wind is going to play a key role
both onshore and offshore. Actually, we foresee that by 2030, around 25% of the total energy needs will be supplied by wind.
And when we think about wind, we all think about these massive wind turbines that I really love when I go everywhere and I see them in the landscapes. But we also acknowledge that these are not always the best, or let's say the most appropriate solution
for different climates or different sites or different remote locations, or for example, for islands. So as part of the IRENA Innovation Technology Center, we focus on emerging technologies
and innovation, innovative technologies. And as you can see, in the figure, one of our key technologies, we give a big importance as a high-impact technology, emerging technology, to the airborne wind energy systems.
And we foresee that it will be commercialized by mid of this decade. In one of our reports related to wind offshore, we were very happy to find out that in the last year,
more and more research has been deployed in the area, in this technological area. And we are also very happy to find out that it's not only on a university basis, I mean, not only academics, but also in the private sectors, also by industry.
And we keep on hoping that this tendency will keep on growing. So a couple of minutes ago, I commented about the collaborative framework on offshore renewables or ocean energy. We call it both ways.
This is key for us today because this is the place where at IURENA, we tackle airborne systems. And the important fact here is that we've seen
that in the last years, there's a big, big interest on member countries in keep on supporting and keep on creating these collaborative frameworks, especially for ocean and offshore renewables.
This collaborative framework is new. It's quite new at IURENA. Actually, tomorrow, there's going to be a fourth session, if I'm not wrong. And we have already more than 60 countries engaged in it, besides from other parties,
such as industry and private sector. What is the collaborative framework? Just to clarify, it's basically a vehicle for dialogue. So countries meet and policymakers start discussing
about different topics. They identified topics they want to address in more detail, and this is how then IURENA, for example, pick up some topics out of it and develop some technical research or analysis on the specifics.
The same happens with other collaborative frameworks. So as part of this collaborative framework on offshore renewables, last year, we developed a technical brief giving guidance to the G20 countries on how to deploy, how to foster offshore renewables.
And I just pick it up, a couple of recommendations out of this report. The report is available in the publication site of IURENA, if you want to check it. And as it has already been addressed by colleagues
before, one of the main topics to keep on deploying the technology is awareness. So this is a new technology, it's an emerging one, it's an innovative technology, and it has to be mainstreamed
across the whole energy sector, across all the stakeholders, being regulators, policymakers, and the general public. We need to be aware that awareness is key when trying to implement a technology.
Second one, to keep on RD activities, we believe that, and we recommend it, countries to keep on investing in in-house research and development.
We believe it is key that this is still maintained in-house, and of course, when the technology is already there, then it will come the private sector and wind manufacturers and the industry to try to decrease the level of cost of energy.
But so far, we believe it is key, it is still supported by in-house research and development. Then there's a key also recommendation, which is collaboration.
Collaboration between all the stakeholders. We believe that it is key to have these collaborative frameworks in which all the stakeholders can be engaged on discussions and can learn from each other. Because in these kind of meetings,
you know there are different countries with different circumstances. Maybe you have Tonga and you have Italy speaking, so you can see how much each country can benefit from the fact that they are all discussing in the same table, let's say.
And finally, very importantly, which is starting at the moment, it's demonstration. So pilot projects, we believe that in order to, of course, to attract as much attention as possible
and especially the private sector to attract funding, it is key that more pilot projects are run in the field, in the area. So I think that's it. Thank you very much. I hope I clarify a little bit who we are
and how we tackle airborne systems at IRENA. And yeah, thank you, thank you a lot. Thank you very much for the presentation, Paola.
So also in this case, you will join the panel discussion today. So for possible questions from the audience, that's the occasion. So the first plenary session actually ends here. We are slightly over time. And I believe since all of the people are here
to give enough time to set up the rooms and everything, I think we just shift the program in parallel. So we start the technical session at 10, okay? So 15 minutes shifting of the whole program to allow for people to move in the rooms and set up everything.
Thank you very much for joining the first session of this conference.