More renewable deployment is key to meet climate aims

Significance

Achieving these goals, even getting close to them, requires overcoming challenges around the supply of raw materials and components, grid connections and approvals processes.

Impacts

• Failure to build out the renewables ecosystem fast enough will see temperatures exceed the 1.5-degree limit in the Paris Agreement.
• Progress will require tackling non-technical barriers and employing and integrating diverse solutions.
• Shortages of renewable energy inputs may arise due both to Western decoupling from China and renewable energy usage expanding sharply.