Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, President of COP28, called on Tuesday to "triple" the world's renewable energy capacity by 2030. In its final declaration, the previous COP, held in 2022 in Egypt, had called for "rapidly scaling up the deployment of clean energy production" "Please act now," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a video message, adding that "we have looked the other way too long" The aim is to deploy about 1,200 GW per year worldwide, according to the IEA.