'Not a cost, but a choice': How redirecting the $6tr earmarked for new fossil fuel projects could fill the clean power investment gap

Michael Holder
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New research warns around $2tr investment each year - double current trends - is needed to deliver on the COP28 goal of tripling global renewables capacity by 2030

The world needs to double its annual investment in renewables to $2tr a year throughout the remainder of the decade if it is to triple global renewables capacity by 2030, as agreed by governments at last...

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