Graph showing electric generation by year and source.  Rises from 15 million GWH in 2000 to about 28 million GWH in 2022.  Fossil fuel use for electric generation when from just under 10 million GWH to about 17 million in that time.

“The big question,” said Dave Jones, an electricity analyst at Ember, a London-based think tank, is whether countries can increase the pace of renewable energy deployment so that they’re not just bringing down power sector emissions slowly, but “actually enabling deep and rapid carbon dioxide emissions cuts.”