The first Global Stocktake calls for tripling renewable capacity
The outcome of the first Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement, agreed at COP28 in Dubai, calls on parties to contribute to tripling global renewable energy capacity and doubling the global average annual rate of energy efficiency improvement by 2030, and — in the formulation that dominated coverage — to transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems in a just, orderly and equitable manner. It is a call rather than an obligation, consistent with the Paris architecture. The tripling target is worth stating precisely because it is checkable: it implies global installed renewable capacity of roughly eleven terawatts by 2030 against the base year used, and annual additions are reported against it every year.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Photovoltaic solar generation · technology · global; manufacturing concentrated in China · not located
- The horizontal-axis wind turbine · technology · global; offshore concentrated in the North Sea, China and East Asia · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
World Energy Outlook (annual series)
The reference source for world energy balances, final energy consumption by carrier, generation mix, technology cost trends and scenario pathways used throughout this pack. V55 verification basis: no edition was retrieved in this session — iea.org was refused by the network egress proxy — so every figure attributed to this series is stated as a magnitude with the specific gap named on the citing record, and no current-year quantity should be presented to a reader without confirmation against a named edition.
International Energy Agency, Paris · Partly verified
IEA, World Energy Outlook, annual editions
Recorded on Photovoltaic solar generation
- The conventional start of the photovoltaic module price series
- Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act takes effect
- Chinese manufacturing takes over the photovoltaic supply chain
- The United Kingdom's fifth contract auction attracts no offshore wind bids
- The first Global Stocktake calls for tripling renewable capacity
- China imposes export controls on rare earths and magnets
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- Chinese manufacturing takes over the photovoltaic supply chain · c. 2008–2013
- Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act takes effect · 2000-04-01
- The conventional start of the photovoltaic module price series · 1976