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"Governments are rolling out renewables at a record pace, and tripling capacity
by 2030 is within reach – it’s time to make Paris Agreement targets official.
Global renewable capacity additions reached almost 560 gigawatts (GW) in 2023,
an unprecedented 64% year-over-year increase from 2022, and China was by far
the most significant contributor.
But the International Energy Agency’s newly released report, “COP28 Tripling
Renewable Capacity Pledge: Tracking countries’ ambitions and identifying
policies to bridge the gap,” finds that few countries have explicitly laid out
2030 targets for installed capacity in their existing Nationally Determined
Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement.
Of the 194 NDCs previously submitted, only 14 include explicit targets for
total renewable power capacity for 2030. Official NDC commitments currently
amount to 1,300 GW – just 12% of what’s required to meet the global tripling
goal set in Dubai.
However, new country-by-country analysis by the IEA of nearly 150 countries
finds that governments’ domestic ambitions go much further, corresponding to
almost 8,000 GW of global installed renewable capacity by 2030.
Nearly 50 countries are on track to reach or surpass their current plans – and
China is by far the biggest contributor. It’s not yet set an official target,
but China’s goal of 1,200 GW of solar and wind capacity by 2030 – which it’s
expected to surpass this year(!) – accounts for over 90% of all renewable
capacity mentioned in NDCs. China in 2030 is set to be 2.5 times its 2022
level.
If countries were to include all their existing policies, plans, and estimates
in their new NDCs due next year – which will consist of revised ambitions for
2030 and new goals for 2035 – they would reflect 70% of what’s needed by 2030
to reach the tripling goal, which corresponds to 11,000 GW of installed
renewable capacity globally."
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