Tripling clean electricity by 2030 achievable: International Energy Agency

A miner in Heilbronn is seen inside a salt mine where construction is under way to build the long SuedLink electric power line to transport green energy from wind turbines from the northern coast to Germany's south from 2028 [File: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters]

A global goal to triple the production of electricity from clean sources such as solar and wind power by 2030 is “ambitious but achievable”, says the world’s leading independent energy analyst.

Nearly 200 countries, including the world’s biggest polluters, pledged themselves to that goal in Dubai last December under the auspices of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.