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Clean energy is growing, but so is planet-heating pollution

Why are greenhouse gas emissions still rising?

To fulfill the most ambitious goals in the agreement, countries are supposed to slash global greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, reaching net zero by the middle of the century. Without the boom in clean energy technologies over the past five years — from solar panels and wind turbines to electric vehicles and heat pumps — there would have been three times as much carbon dioxide pollution, according to the new IEA report. “The clean energy transition has undergone a series of stress tests in the last five years,” IEA executive director Fatih Birol said in a press release today.

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