With signing of the Paris Agreement, countries pledged to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions, as well as to adapt to the impacts of climate change.
If all renewable power targets included in NDCs were implemented, an additional 1 041 gigawatts (GW) of renewables would be added by 2030 and the global installed capacity for renewable power generation would consequently grow almost 42%, from 2 523 GW in 2019 to an estimated 3 564 GW in 2030.