About the campaign

The campaign’s objective is to promote bold emissions targets and a rapid deployment of wind energy around the world in a bid to achieve a decline in global greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, in order to avoid the worst consequences of climate change.

 

Coordinated by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) the campaign will set out to remove the policy and infrastructural obstacles to the technology’s rapid deployment.

 

Secretary General of GWEC Steve Sawyer said, “The world needs an effective solution which can deliver power with emissions reductions now – that solution is wind energy.  It’s already working in over 70 countries, delivering reliable energy on demand. The only thing stopping it delivering more is government inaction. We need to achieve the IPCC target for declining emissions or face the worse consequences of climate change. Wind power will help us achieve that.”

 

The campaign will engage with policy makers and governments to discuss the world’s energy needs and the role which wind power is playing in fulfilling those needs, including the potential to massively increase its contribution.