NEW DELHI: 2020 might have been the best year in history for the global wind industry with 93 GW of new capacity installed, but this 53 per cent year-on-year increase — massive as it is during a pandemic year—is nevertheless not nearly enough for the world to attain net zero emission status by 2050. According to a new report published by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), this growth is not sufficient to ensure the world achieves net zero by the time half the century is over and the industry will have to install wind power three times faster over the next decade in order to stay on a net zero pathway and avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
