This second edition from 2025 provides an update to the landmark report from 2019, based on a new survey of 1192 individuals working in the sector, and 233 companies and organizations. The headline finding was that despite widespread efforts, the share of women in renewable energy has not grown over the past six years: it … Continue reading “Renewable energy: A gender perspective (Second edition)”
These Greening TVET guidelines provide a comprehensive framework to promote sustainable development within TVET institutions. By showing how to embed environmental sustainability and gender equity into institutional practices, the guidelines aim to equip TVET institutions with the tools needed to foster a green economy.
This report provides comprehensive analysis of the global energy workforce, including estimates of its size and distribution across regions, sectors, and technologies. It also assesses how energy labour requirements evolve to 2035 across all IEA scenarios.
This resource provides the latest data and insights on global renewable energy employment, highlighting trends in renewable energy deployment and supply chains as well as the influence of geopolitical and geoeconomic factors. The resource serves as a valuable tool for stakeholders aiming to understand and address the employment implications of the global shift towards renewable … Continue reading “Renewable energy and jobs: Annual review 2025”
This report uses economic modelling to investigate the viability of ten different productive use applications of solar power in agriculture (oil extraction, maize shelling, rice hulling, fruit juice making, sugar cane juicing, fruit drying, flour milling, peanut shelling and coffee pulping). It investigates each technology in detail and then calculates the profits and other benefits … Continue reading “Productive Use Report – Evaluation of solar-powered agricultural technologies for productive-use applications: A modelling approach”
This brief report introduces the concept of the WEF nexus and explains how the FAO has applied the nexus approach in its work, with many case study examples.
UNDP’s Gender Equality Seal has been implemented under different names in 11 countries and has engaged over 1400 companies. Companies, including many in male-dominated sectors such as the energy sector, can qualify for the seal by following a ten-step plan.
This Chilean government programme, launched in 2019, is a public-private plan that supports energy companies to advance gender equality. It consists of 10 different axes, 14 measures and 40 concrete actions.
This report provides recommendations for improving the availability of sex-disaggregated and specific gender equality data in the energy sector, to improve decision making and programme design.
This report investigates labour shortages for the energy transition in Europe and shows just how many more people will be needed in the energy sector by 2030 (See the table on p.4; example: over 600,000 new solar PV technicians and 150,000 wind engineers). On page 7, the report gives a quick overview of key arguments … Continue reading “Europe’s Energy Transition: Women’s Power in Solving the Labour Bottleneck – Employment Opportunities and Requirements for Low-Carbon Job Markets”