Talk:International Renewable Energy Agency

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Members
As the charter of IRENA is not in force yet, from the legal point of view there are no members, but only signatory states. The charter will become in force after 25th states deposits its ratification instrument. All countries signed for this date would be considered as founding members. Therefore, there is no need to count the members right now and mentioning 75 countries signed on the founding conference would be enough. The number of members would be relevant after the carter is coming into force. Therefore, I will remove the information about the 76th member right now. It is also worth for mentioning that the 76th signator was Belarus and not India. The given reference says nothing about India. India has decided to join,; however, there is no information about signing by India yet. Beagel (talk) 17:13, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

outdated article
We're past peak oil, and IRENA is expanding really fast .. please update the article ! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.201.223.13 (talk) 21:05, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Wikilinks / Intro
Thats not the first article about IRENA btw., I added the interwikis. Its as well sort of overstretch to assign the glamour to Hermann Scheer only. First reneweables initiative are as old as the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment and the Brandt Report, they even have played a role in the plans to provide a third (enviromental) pillar to NATO in the 60ties. I changed the entry insofar. Serten (talk) 12:48, 6 August 2014 (UTC) PS.: I think its quite problematic to base wide parts of the article on Scheers papers, since those are quite one-sided. E.g. in Austria, Norbert Hofer, leading member from right wing Freedom Party of Austria was head of Eurosolar - will say, Scheer was not the only one to suggest Vranitzkys initiiative and it was not only the greens ;). Serten (talk) 12:58, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

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Critique
A. This article has a few areas where citations are needed based on facts stated with no reliable citation link. I've added [citation needed] to various areas where I think a citation can be used. Specifically, toward the end of the 1st section in the 4th and 7th paragraphs.

C. This article is probably a little biased as it's an environmentally focused wiki page, however, the page seems single-minded in its effort to promote IRENA. It may be helpful to have a section on reasons why some countries choose to not be a part of IRENA or what their viewpoints may be.

D. A lot of the information comes from IRENA directly so that gives a lot of potential for bias and the bias is noticed in the ressoundning praise for IRENA.

F. Citations - I checked on the citation links and found that many lead to error pages and are not viable. Specifically #4,14,15, and 18. #18 actually leads to an archived page about Cialis, so not relevant to the topic.

G. - Much of this inormation seems a few years out of date. There is actually 160 members of IRENA now and a whole list of countries that are in process of accession including 23 states. It would also be helpful to have a list of countries that are a part of IRENA. One can be found at this link - Keelinjohn (talk) 03:54, 8 February 2019 (UTC)