In a special address At the UN headquarters in New York, Mr. Guterres cited the rise of clean energy investment and immersing the solar and wind costs which now exceed fossil fuels.
“” The energy transition is unstoppable, but the transition is not yet fast enough or fairly fairly,He said.
The speech, A moment of opportunity: to overse the clean energy era – last year’s follow -up Moment of truth – has been delivered alongside a new United Nations technical report on global energy and funding organizations.
“Simply follow the money,” said Mr. Guterres, noting that 2 billions of dollars have passed in clean energy last year, 800 billion dollars more than fossil fuels and increased almost 70% in a decade.
Key points of the address
- Point of no return – The world has moved irreversibly to renewable energies, fossil fuels entering their decline
- Clean energy overvoltage – 2 billions of dollars invested in clean energy last year, $ 800 billion more than fossil fuels
- Cost revolution – Solar now 41% cheaper and offshore wind 53% cheaper than alternatives of fossil fuel.
- Global challenge – Calls the G20 nations to align the new national climatic plans on the target of 1.5 ° C of the Paris Agreement
- Energy security – renewable energies ensure “true energy sovereignty”
- Six areas of opportunity – Ambition of the climate plan, modern grids, sustainable request, just transition, trade reform and financing for emerging markets.
A change of possibility
He noted new data from the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) showing Solar energy, once four times more expensive, is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels.
Likewise, the offshore wind is 53% cheaper, with More than 90% of new renewable energies worldwide by beating the new cheapest fossil alternative.
“” It is not only a change of power. It is a change of possibility“He said.
Renewable energies almost correspond to fossil fuels in the installed global energy capacity, and “almost all the new energy capacity built” last year came from renewable energies, he said, noting that each continent added more clean power than fossil fuels.
Clean energy is unstoppable
Mr. Guterres stressed that a proper energy future “is no longer a promise, it is a fact”. No government, no industry and no particular interest can stop it.
“” Of course, the fossil fuels lobby will try, and we know the lengths to which they will go. But, I have never been as confident as I will fail because we have passed the point of no return.“”
He urged countries to lock the ambition in the next series of national climatic plans, or NDC, due in a few months. Mr. Guterres called the G20 countries, which are responsible for 80% of emissions, to submit new plans aligned on the limit of 1.5 ° C and to present them to a high -level event in September.
The targets, he added, must “double the energy efficiency and triple capacity of renewable energies by 2030” while accelerating “the transition far from fossil fuels”.
Real energy sovereignty
The secretary general also underlined the geopolitical risks of dependence on fossil fuels.
“The greatest threat to energy security today is fossil fuels,” he said, citing price shocks after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
“” There are no price peaks for sunlight, no embargoes on the wind. Renewable energies mean real energy security, real energy sovereignty and real freedom of volatility of fossil fuels.“”
Six areas of opportunity
Mr. Guterres has mapped six “opportunities areas” to speed up the transition: ambitious NDCs, modern grids and storage, making a sustainable shape, a transition just for workers and communities, commercial reforms to widen the supply chains in clean technology and mobilize finances to emerging markets.
Funding, however, is the strangulation point. Africa, which houses 60% of the best solar resources in the world, has received only 2% of the world’s own energy investment last yearhe said.
Only one in five dollars on clean energy in the past decade has gone to emerging savings and in development outside China. The flows must increase more than five times by 2030 to maintain the limit of 1.5 degrees alive and offer universal access.
Mr. Guterres urged the reform of global finance, stronger multilateral development banks and debt relief, including debt exchange for air conditioning.
“” The age of the fossil fuel rushes and fails. We are at the dawn of a new era of energy“He said in finishing.
“” This world is at hand, but that will not happen alone. Not fast enough. Not fair enough. It’s up to us. This is our time of opportunity.“”
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