Accelerating the Global Clean Energy Transition
World clean electricity gains about one percentage point a year, against 2.3 needed for a fully clean grid by 2050 and 3.8 by 2040, yet wind and solar additions have grown 19% a year since 2019 and coal, oil and gas use outside power is still rising. Five countries generate two thirds of fossil power, and if every country at least matched the pace of the fastest tenth of its income peers, world power would be about 95% clean by 2050 rather than 65%.