Wind energy is already making a significant contribution to emissions reduction in both industrialised and developing countries, and by 2020, substantial savings of CO2 could be achieved. Under a new 2020 climate agreement, wind energy alone could contribute a very large portion of the emissions reductions under the pledges put forward so far. However, they are woefully inadequate to meeting the climate challenge.
Industrialised countries can and must review their pledges for reduction targets and raise them very substantially, as well as assisting developing countries’ often ambitious programmes to decarbonise their electricity systems with both public finance and private investment through the carbon markets.