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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jillian Ambrose

We really could triple renewables by 2030, but it won’t be a breeze

A woman facing aeway from the camera, silhouetted against the background, in front of a large pit with a minign machine in it, and a row of wind turbines on the horizon
A woman looks across an open-cast coalmine in western Germany to a windfarm on the horizon. Photograph: Ina Fassbender/AFP/Getty Images

In the past week almost 120 global leaders have pledged to triple the world’s renewable energy capacity before 2030 in a bold attempt to slash the global consumption of fossil fuels.

As the second half of the Cop28 UN climate conference in Dubai unfolds in the week ahead, more countries may join the calls for a global target of 11 terawatts (TW) of renewable power by the end of the decade, three times higher than the 3.629TW in place at the end of 2022.

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