IRENA lays out renewable energy road map to curb global warming

Electrification, and renewable power are key drivers outlined in the report, with solar and wind capacity leading the energy transformation

Increasing the speed of global renewable energy adoption by at least a factor of six — critical to meeting energy-related emission reduction needs of the Paris Climate Agreement — can limit global temperature rise to two degrees centigrade, according to the latest edition of the International Renewable Energy Agency’s (IRENA’s) long-term renewable energy outlook.

Global Energy Transformation: A Roadmap to 2050, launched on Tuesday at the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue, also finds that increasing cumulative energy system investment by 30 per cent by 2050 in favour of renewable energy and energy efficiency can create more than 11 million energy-sector jobs, offsetting