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The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is an intergovernmental organization to promote adoption and sustainable use of renewable energy. It was founded in 2009 and its statute entered into force on 8 July 2010. The agency is headquartered in Abu Dhabi.〔 〕 The Director-General of IRENA is Adnan Amin, a national of Kenya.〔http://www.europeanenergyreview.eu/site/pagina.php?id_mailing=277&toegang=20f07591c6fcb220ffe637cda29bb3f6&id=3707〕 ==History== The first suggestions for an international renewable agency is based on the 1980 Brandt Report activities. NGOs and industry lobbying groups like Eurosolar,〔(EUROSOLAR-Memorandum zur Einrichtung einer Internationalen Agentur für Erneuerbare Energien (IRENA) ), May 2001〕 the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE) and the World Wind Energy Association have promoted IRENA since several decades.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=World Wind Energy Association )〕 1990 the Austrian government of Franz Vranitzky suggested a reneweables agency to the UN.〔 One of the drivers was Hermann Scheer, a German politician and lobbyist which was acting as president of EUROSOLAR and chair of WCRE.〔(The long Road to IRENA- A chronology, by Hermann Scheer )〕 On 15 June, at their annual event, the WWEA gave their 2010 World Wind Energy Award to the Founding member States of IRENA. They stated: "The creation of IRENA can be seen as the most important decision ever taken on the global level in favour of renewable energy. The founding of IRENA sent out a very strong signal to the world community that renewable energy will have to play and will play a key role in the future energy supply all over the world. With the Award, WWEA would also like to indicate that WWEA is committed to work closely with IRENA and will continue to give its full support."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=World Wind Energy Association )〕 54 countries participated in the Preparatory Conference for the Foundation of the International Renewable Energy Agency in Berlin, held on 10 and 11 April 2008. This meeting followed several other meetings since 1981 which also discussed the formation of IRENA. At Berlin, government representatives met to discuss the objectives, activities, finances, and organizational structure of IRENA. Participants expressed a need to begin a swift transition to a more secure, sustainable renewable energy economy with the assistance of an international body.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Renewable Energy News )〕 The Founding Conference of the International Renewable Energy Agency was held in Bonn, Germany, on 26 January 2009. 75 countries signed the Agency's statute. The statute entered into force on 8 July 2010, thirty days after the twenty-fifth country deposits its instrument of ratification. The Founding Conference established the Preparatory Commission for IRENA, which consists of all signatory states. During the first session of the Preparatory Commission in Bonn on 27 January 2009, the signatory countries adopted criteria and procedures for selecting IRENA's Interim Director-General and its interim headquarters. An Administrative Committee was created to assist the Commission in preparing its second session. The Administrative Committee prepared draft proposals for an interim work programme and budget as well as for interim staff regulations and interim financial rules.〔(Preparatory Commission of IRENA )〕 Nominations for the Interim Director-General and the interim headquarters were submitted by 30 April 2009.〔 〕 The second session of the Preparatory Commission met in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on 29–30 June 2009, to elect the Interim Director General and decide the location of IRENA's interim headquarters. It was decided, that the interim headquarters will be located in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The UAE thus became the first developing country to host a major international organisation. In addition, an innovation and technology center will be located in Bonn, and an office dedicated to liaising with the United Nations and other international institutions will be located in Vienna.〔 〕〔 〕 Hélène Pelosse was elected as the Interim Director-General.〔 〕 The second session of the Preparatory Commission also adopted an interim work programme and budget as well as for interim staff regulations and interim financial rules. The fourth session of the Preparatory Commission on 24–25 October 2010 in Abu Dhabi appointed Kenyan representative Adnan Amin, Deputy Interim Director-General, to perform functions of Interim Director-General after resignation of Hélène Pelosse.〔 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i-7MN8SSgCVP4bcAPKr682_exj5w?docId=CNG.135bb89cab5c7dfce021f53c3286a72b.471 )〕 On 4 April 2011, Adnan Amin was sworn in as the first Director-General. The agency has staged a number of events bringing together member states for interaction on ways and means of furthering renewable energy, and conducted significant research and development into viable solutions for the future. On 8 September 2014, IRENA published a notable report on its works titled ''REthinking energy'', which encouraged "speedier adoption of renewable energy technologies," as "the most feasible route to reduce carbon emissions and avoid catastrophic climate change." The study set out to gauge the global power sector and establish how technological advances, economic growth and climate change are transforming it. "A convergence of social, economic and environmental forces are transforming the global energy system as we know it. But if we continue on the path we are currently on and fuel our growing economies with outmoded ways of thinking and acting, we will not be able avoid the most serious impacts of climate change," Director-General Amin said at a function to release the report. The Ninth Meeting of International Renewable Energy Agency Council would be held on 10–11 June 2015 at Abu Dhabi. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「International Renewable Energy Agency」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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