IEA calls for faster growth in renewable energy generation
The International Energy Agency (IEA) today called for faster growth in renewable energy generation. It considers the current pace insufficient to meet the targets set at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai last December. The IEA said this in its annual report on renewable energy.
Participants at COP28 agreed to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030. However, the IEA forecast that capacity would increase only two-and-a-half-fold if current policies and market conditions continued.
„That is not enough to meet the COP28 goal of tripling renewable energy generation, but we are getting closer. And governments have the tools needed to close this gap,“ IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said.
According to the IEA, the global capacity of installed renewable energy facilities increased by nearly 510 gigawatts last year. The addition of new capacity was therefore almost half as high again as in the previous year.
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