The Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition (GWNET) is an international non-profit organisation, which aims at advancing the global energy transition by connecting and empowering women working in sustainable energy in both developed and emerging/developing countries.

In honour of International Women’s Month, SEforAll interviewed a number of People-Centered Accelerator partners about their work to address gender implications in the energy sector.

The twenty-fourth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP24), which convened under the Presidency of Poland, was held from the 2nd to the14th of December 2018 in Katowice.

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), with support from GWNET and REN21, is undertaking a global Gender and Renewable Energy survey.

On the second day of the 2018 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF 2018) titled “Transformation towards Sustainable and Resilient Societies”, which took place between 9 - 18 July 2018 in New York, thematic reviews were held and the sessions continued to focus on the progress made toward the achievement of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In the afternoon, the review of SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy) took place.

The REN21 Renewables 2018 Global Status Report, which provides an overview about the latest developments on the renewable energy transition through the end of 2017, was recently published on 7th June 2018.

The 7th International Renewable Energy Conference was co-organized by Mexican Secretariat of Energy (SENER), REN21, and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), and was held in Mexico City from 11-13 September 2017, with attendees from 69 countries.

The global initiative on Sustainable Energy for All aims to mobilize action from all sectors of society in support of three interlinked objectives to be achieved by 2030: