NEW YORK, Sept. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Global investment in renewable energy must more than triple over the next six years to meet the 11,000GW capacity target needed to keep 1.5°C within reach, COP28 President Dr. Sultan Al Jaber said today at the Global Renewables Summit, the first-ever high-level public-private summit focused on the goal of tripling renewable energy globally by 2030.

'Tripling renewable capacity is not just a benchmark, it is an essential enabler of all global efforts to keep 1.5 within reach, advance sustainable prosperity and leave no one behind,' Dr. Al Jaber said at the summit, held on the margins of the 79th UN General Assembly in New York.