Gutterres Says It's Time To Switch To Clean Energy Goals - CleanTechnica

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres emphasizes the urgent need to accelerate the global transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, highlighting renewables as the most cost-effective and sustainable power source available today. He advocates for tripling global renewable capacity by 2030 through removing barriers, reducing costs, and improving grid infrastructure to connect clean power to communities and industries. Guterres underscores the broad benefits of clean energy, including improved health, education, job creation, energy affordability, and resilience against geopolitical and market disruptions. However, he notes significant challenges remain, such as outdated grid systems and high costs that exclude many countries from the transition. To overcome these obstacles, Guterres calls for coordinated action across regulators, utilities, industry, and finance sectors. This includes adopting policies that incentivize clean power, modernizing and digitizing grids, diversifying supply chains for critical minerals, and lowering capital costs, especially in developing countries. Multilateral development banks are urged to reduce investment risks and mobilize private funding to