{"id":10117,"date":"2020-06-26T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T06:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=10117"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:08","slug":"irena-urges-governments-to-align-economic-stimulus-with-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/06\/26\/irena-urges-governments-to-align-economic-stimulus-with-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"IRENA Urges Governments to Align Economic Stimulus with Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Governments can align immediate economic stimulus needs with medium to long-term decarbonisation and sustainable development objectives by targeting policy measures and public spending towards the energy transformation, a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) finds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Post-COVID recovery: An agenda for resilience, development and equality<\/em>&nbsp;outlines immediate stimulus action for the next three years (2021-2023) as well as measures for a mid-term 2030 recovery perspective over the next decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It provides practical insights and recommendations for governments as they drive investment and policy actions for post-COVID-19 economies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report shows that on an annual basis, scaling-up public and private energy spending to $4.5 trillion per year would boost the world economy by an additional 1.3%, creating 19 million additional energy transition-related jobs by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jobs in renewables alone could triple to 30 million by 2030. Every million dollars (USD) invested in renewables would create three times more jobs than in fossil fuels. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esi-africa.com\/industry-sectors\/finance-and-policy\/irena-urges-governments-to-align-economic-stimulus-with-sustainability\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governments can align immediate economic stimulus needs with medium to long-term decarbonisation and sustainable development objectives by targeting policy measures and public spending towards the energy transformation, a new report&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}