Climate Changed

Clean Energy Investment Is Set to Hit $2.6 Trillion This Decade

  • Falling costs for wind and solar make more projects possible
  • Funding makes goal to slash greenhouse gases more reachable

A chinese fishermen next to a solar station built on top of fish ponds in Yangzhou in China's eastern Jiangsu province.

Photographer: STR/AFP via Getty Images

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The global energy supply is turning greener.

Investment in new renewable energy is on course to total $2.6 trillion in the years from 2010 through the end of 2019, according to a study by BloombergNEF for the United Nations Environment Program and Frankfurt School’s UNEP Center published Thursday.