5,500 additional gigawatts of renewable capacity to come online between now and 2030. Thats more than the current Power Capacity of china, the european union, india and the United States combined. China is leading the pack, responsible for 60 of the additional output. And solar is winning the renewable race, making up 80 of the forecasted growth. But Electricity Infrastructure is not keeping up. Up to 10 of renewable energy is going to waste because its not able to be stored at times when more is being generated than needed. For more, joining me now the ieas Executive Director, dr fatih birol. This is a rare piece of good news and shows what can be achieved when a real effort is made. It is extremely good news for everybody, i would say, almost everybody, i would say, almost everybody around the world, because renewables are growing very strongly and there is huge potential for them to grow, and the main driver of this is very strong, massive growth is not necessarily climate policies.
The issues china is facing. Short of these stimulus packages, we don t know a great deal about where the money is being spent. Would you be looking for in order to try and turn these futures around 7 one of the big issues is the banking system is huge in china, it is loaded with bad debts. It s been forced to lend to bad projects for so long so the first thing to do is rescue the banks of this is something that the fed did after the financial crisis. system. Instead of giving them more money to lend and using that money to set up a fund, buy from them all of the bad assets and let them go back to a clean balance sheet and start over. The government can hold this bad debt, these bad property investments for a very long time but the banks need to have a better capital base to start lending again and you need to stop forcing them to lend only to state owned enterprises which are not profitable and bad projects, bad infrastructure projects with a 1% return on assets. You need to get the
Fanning the flames. What can the government do? we talked again about the issues china is facing. Short of these stimulus packages, we don t know a great deal about where the money is being spent. Would you be looking for in order to try and turn this future is around? one of the big issues is the banking system is huge in china, it is loaded with bad debts. It s been forced to lend to bad projects for so long so the first thing to do is rescue the banks of this is something that the fed did after the financial crisis. Instead of giving them more money to lend and using that money to set up a fund, buy from them all of the bad assets and let them go back to a clean balance sheet and start over. The government can hold this bad debt, bad property investments for a very long time but the banks need to have better capital to start lending again and you need to stop forcing them to lend only to state owned enterprises which are not profitable and bad projects, bad infrastructure projects w
After the us justice department sued america s largest card network, accusing the company of illegally monopolising the debit card market and driving up prices for businesses and consumers. Lifting us financial markets, well, there was a sharp rise in al darling nvidia s stock price. That was after the company said its ceo, jensen huang, was done selling stock in the chip maker for now. And china s wave of stimulus to jolt its ailing economy, well, that also boosted us stocks that have exposure to china. So far this week, it has been light on the economic front, with investors still digesting that rate cut from the federal reserve. But on the economic calendar, things should pick up as the week goes forward. As michelle mentioned, the usjustice department has filed a lawsuit against visa. It says the world s largest payments processor illegally stifled competition to maintain a monopoly over the us debit card market, through means like paying off potential competitors. Visa says the cl
After the us justice department sued america s largest card network, accusing the company of illegally monopolising the debit card market and driving up prices for businesses and consumers. Lifting us financial markets, well, there was a sharp rise in al darling nvidia s stock price. That was after the company said its ceo, jensen huang, was done selling stock in the chip maker for now. And china s wave of stimulus to jolt its ailing economy, well, that also boosted us stocks that have exposure to china. So far this week, it has been light on the economic front, with investors still digesting that rate cut from the federal reserve. But on the economic calendar, things should pick up as the week goes forward. As michelle mentioned, the usjustice department has filed a lawsuit against visa. It says the world s largest payments processor illegally stifled competition to maintain a monopoly over the us debit card market, through means like paying off potential competitors. Visa says the cl