Question: Which organization has released Global Wind Report 2021 recently?
a) United Nations Environment Programme
b) World Bank
c) Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC)
d) None of the above
Ans: c
Context
- Global Wind Report 2021 was published by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) on March 25, 2021.
Facts
- This is GWEC’s 16th annual flagship report ahead of the crucial COP26 conference in November 2021.
- Report highlights wind power’s role on the road to net zero emissions.
- Report highlights that 2020 was the best year in history for the global wind industry with 93 GW of new capacity installed – a 53 per cent year-on-year increase.
- However this growth is not sufficient to ensure the world achieves net zero by 2050.
- The world needs to be installing wind power three times faster over the next decade in order to stay on a net zero pathways and avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
- As per the report there is now 743 GW of wind power capacity worldwide, helping to avoid over 1.1 billion tonnes of CO2 globally – equivalent to the annual carbon emissions of South America.
Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC)
- The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) was established in 2005 to provide a credible and representative forum for the entire wind energy sector at an international level. GWEC’s mission is to ensure that wind power is established as one of the world’s leading energy sources, providing substantial environmental and economic benefits.
By kameshwar shukla
Reference: https://gwec.net/global-wind-report-2021/