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IRENA PRESS RELEASE World Breaks Renewable Records but Must Move Faster to Hit 2030 Tripling Goal

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  View this email in your browser     PRESS RELEASE   World Breaks Renewable Records but Must Move Faster to Hit 2030 Tripling Goal    New global progress report flags bottlenecks in investment, grids and supply chains, urging governments for bolder renewable targets before COP30. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates/Brasília, Brazil, 14 October 2025  - The world is falling behind on its renewable energy and efficiency goals despite record progress last year, confirms a new report released today by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the COP30 Brazilian Presidency, and the Global Renewables Alliance (GRA) during a pre-COP30 high-level event in Brasília. In 2024, global renewable capacity additions reached an unprecedented 582 GW. Yet this is still not enough to stay on track for the COP28 UAE Consensus target of tripling renewables to 11.2 TW by 2030. Meeting that goal now demands a staggering 1 122 GW of added capacity every year f...
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REBECA GRYNSPAN TO BRIEF PRESS ON TRADE FRAGMENTATION, DEBT PRESSURES AND DIGITAL SHIFTS AS GLOBAL ECONOMIC LEADERS GATHER IN GENEVA

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  When:  Monday, 13 October 2025 – 2:30 p.m. (Geneva time/CEST) Who:  Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Follow live:  UNCTAD Press conference ahead of the 16th Conference on Trade and Development | UN Web TV As the global economy undergoes tectonic shifts in trade, finance and technology, global economic and development leaders will gather in Geneva this month to chart a path through mounting uncertainty and fragmentation.   Ahead of the 16 th  session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD16 ), Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan will brief journalists on how countries can navigate record debt, disrupted supply chains, volatile investment flows and accelerating digital transformation.   Hosted by Switzerland, UNCTAD16 (20-23 October, Palais de Nations) will bring together minsters of trade and finance, heads of international organizations, Nobel laureates and leading economists to explore w...
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New Climate Realities in the Boardroom: What Directors Are Really Saying (and Doing)

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Image courtesy: Artist: Patrick Chappatte; First Published: World Meteorological Organisation Calendar Guest blog by Helle Bank Jørgensen , GCB.D, NACD.DC ( originally published here ) Global Managing Director, Board Development, Board Intelligence and Founder Competent Boards. #1 Amazon Bestselling Author, Global Keynote Speaker. If you serve on a board today, you can feel the ground shifting under your feet. The rhetoric is louder, the politics are harsher, the data are starker, and yet, behind the headlines, many boards are getting on with it. They’re changing how they talk, how they budget, and how they govern. That was the unmistakable signal from the recent Competent Boards Global Forum conversation we convened with directors and senior leaders spanning Asia, Africa, North America, South America and Europe. Here’re the top 5 distilled reality from the conversation. It’s messy, nuanced, and actionable. Pledges don’t buy trust anymore. Proof does. Not long ago, boards were appl...
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