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Tripling renewables: Five trillion US dollars missing

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Published: February 15th, 2024,
Last updated: May 30th, 2025

Solar park in Meuro in Brandenburg – tripling renewables will be costly.

In order to triple renewable energies by 2030, as agreed at COP28, twelve trillion US dollars of investment will be required between 2024 and 2030. This is shown in a new study by Climate Analytics. Currently, investments of 6.6 trillion US dollars are foreseeable by 2030. There is an investment gap of a good five trillion. However, some six trillion US dollars will be invested in fossil fuels by 2030 – „shifting this investment to renewables and grids could fully close the investment gap,“ the researchers write.

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