To meet both climate goals and growing energy needs over the coming decades, the world must rapidly scale investment in solar energy. Scaling solar deployment – by providing access to clean electricity, creating jobs, improving human health, and advancing gender equality – can help countries tackle growing demand for energy and achieve multiple Sustainable Development Goals.
At COP26, the World Resources Institute (WRI), in partnership with the International Solar Alliance (ISA) and Bloomberg Philanthropies, launched the Solar Investment Action Agenda, which identifies potential high-impact opportunities to rapidly accelerate solar investment and reach ISA’s goal of mobilizing $1 trillion by 2030.
The Action Agenda summarizes policy and risk management actions that can unlock investment by industry, governments and investors, and initiates an examination of the institutional arrangements needed to accelerate solar deployment. It will guide the development of a Solar Investment Roadmap to be released in 2022.