In a recent meeting between D-8 Secretary-General, Seyed Ali Mohammad Mousavi, and Director-General of IRENA, Adnan Z. Amin, which took place at IRENA’s headquarters in Abu Dhabi, important figure from both Organization exchanged views on the issue of establishing an interaction and fruitful cooperation in the Renewable Energy field, to cater the energy need from enormous population of the D-8 countries. In this discussion, several ways to furnish the modalities for this cooperation was elaborated. 

IRENA had warmly responded to the initiative, and suggested that initially a common booklet about the potentials of renewable energy from D-8 member countries may be worked on, of which the data can be retrieved from IRENA’s comprehensive country profile inventories. This booklet shall provide strategy which derived from analytic review of these potentials. The next step is to establish a technical/expert level meeting which will discuss their respective country’s policy and development of renewable energy, and seek concrete ways of cooperation. The result from this meeting can later be brought to higher level meeting at a Ministerial or Summit meeting, concluded the discussion.

Photos related to this meeting can be viewed here: 

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