Governments not collaborating enough on transition – IEA

Coordinated action urgently needed on deployment of clean technologies to avoid decades-long delay in reaching net zero, agency warns

Far greater international collaboration is needed to accelerate the transition to low-carbon technologies and keep the world on track to achieve net-zero emissions in line with climate goals, according to a joint report from the IEA, the International Renewable Energy Agency and the UN’s Climate Change High-Level Champions. Failure to close the “collaboration gap” between international governments and companies could delay the transition to net zero by decades, the three organisations say in their Breakthrough Agenda Report. Work on the report was launched by 45 world leaders at the Cop26 climate talks in November. “We are in the midst of the first truly global energy crisis, with devastatin