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IRENA: Global renewables capacity grows a record 9.6 per cent

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The performance was driven by significant growth in Asia where 141GW of new capacity was added in China alone, helping to take Asia's total renewables capacity to 1.63TW of capacity. Moreover, Oceania saw 5.2GW of new capacity come online and South America continued an upward trend with 18.2GW of capacity added.

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Keeping 1.5C alive: Is COP26 on track to deliver on its goals?

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is by highlighting how every tenth of a degree or warming matters, for instance to limit the damage to Australia's Great Barrier reef from warming waters, restrict creeping desertification in Africa, or avert worsening floods in Europe and severe wildfires in California. "No As such Peters argues that a better way of talking about the 1.5C