Boosting energy-efficiency commitments 'would produce enormous payoffs'

RWE's Gwynt y Mor, the world's 2nd largest offshore wind farm located eight miles offshore in Liverpool Bay, off the coast of North Wales. Picture: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

There will be “enormous payoffs” if governments commit to doubling their energy-efficiency commitments at the forthcoming UN summit on climate change, an Irish renewable energy expert has said.

Head of energy efficiency at the International Energy Agency (IEA) Brian Motherway said the upcoming Cop28 climate summit in Dubai is crucial to keeping open the path to net zero — the balancing of the amount of greenhouse gas produced and the amount removed from the atmosphere.