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IRENA: Global renewables capacity grows a record 9.6 per cent

Business Green

Moreover, Oceania saw 5.2GW of new capacity come online and South America continued an upward trend with 18.2GW of capacity added. IRENA found that the technologies together contributed 90 per cent of all new renewable capacity in 2022, with the global solar market growing by 22 per cent and the wind energy market growing nine per cent.

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

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The COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next month is likely to fall short of putting the world on track to avert dangerous levels of global warming, but diplomats and analysts are cautiously optimistic it could deliver several breakthroughs and broadly deliver on the UK hosts' stated goal of 'keeping 1.5C Known unknowns.