Target missed

The world needs to scale up renewable energy production by at least six times to meet climate mitigation goals

RENEWABLE ENERGY needs to be scaled up at least six times faster for the world to meet the decarbonisation and climate mitigation goals set out in the Paris Agreement, says International Renewable Energy Agency in its latest report. In countries like Canada, India and the US, projections raise the share of renewables in the energy mix to over 60 per cent. The report comes at a time when India has missed its renewable capacity addition target for the second year in a row- intalling 11,754 MW against the target of 14,450 MW in 2017-18 and 11, 310 MW against 16,660 MW the previous year. the previous year.