THAILAND CoNVERTS ITS PLANS TO ACTION

摘要

Despite ambitious plans for the global development of the solar energy industry and the encouraging progress seen in 2009 and this year to date, over 90% of the world's 192 countries have yet to undertake large-scale solar deployment projects. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), just eight countries accounted for 89% of the world's total installed PV generating capacity of 15 GW in 2008. The IEA has set 2020 targets of 200 GW of global installed capacity for PV and 148 GW for concentrated solar power (CSP), with both figures targeted to soar by 2030. Yet COP 15 - the climate change conference in Copenhagen last December, which failed to agree concrete new targets to limit growth in greenhouse gas emissions - is a shining example of the gap between talk and action.