Hi Toan,
At COP30 in Brazil, GWEC worked closely with governments, international institutions, and industry leaders to ensure wind energy remained high on the global climate agenda. Across ministerial dialogues, official UNFCCC platforms, and multi stakeholder coalitions, the GWEC team used COP as a pivotal moment to translate ambition into action. To strengthen partnerships, forge new alliances, and reinforce wind energy’s central role in delivering the tripling renewables goal.
This year, GWEC led and contributed to high-impact events at the Global Renewables Hub, launched three flagship reports, and shaped key conversations on supply chains, finance, information integrity, and offshore wind deployment. Below you’ll find the major highlights.
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| // GWEC’s Action Agenda Highlights |
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| 📌 Official UNFCCC Side Event: Mutirão - Reinforcing Wind Energy’s Fundamental Role in the Energy Transition 13 Nov, Brazil
GWEC convened global climate and wind industry leaders to underline why wind must remain at the heart of national energy strategies. Jennifer Morgan, German Climate Envoy and former Executive Director of Greenpeace, opened with a powerful message: “The old narrative that clean energy is expensive has been comprehensively defeated, according to leading analysts onshore wind is the cheapest of all energy source versus globally and this victory on cost translates directly into savings for consumers and stability for industries” GWEC CEO Ben Backwell reinforced this, emphasising the system value of wind and offshore wind’s exceptional capacity factors: “The important thing here is that wind's capacity factors on average are three times higher than solar, sometimes four times higher than solar for offshore wind, and again from a system point of view, it is very very important to have wind as the backbone of the energy transition in many, many places.”
→ More information here.
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| 📌 Global Offshore Wind Stocktake - Global Offshore Wind Alliance 15 Nov, Brazil
Founded by GWEC, IRENA and Denmark at COP27, GOWA has now grown to 27 government members. This year’s Stocktake, which was attended by ministers including European Commissioner for Energy and Housing, H.E. Dan Jørgensen and H.E. Irene Vélez Torres, Colombia’s Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, assessed progress toward 380 GW of offshore wind by 2030 and 2,000 GW by 2050. With global capacity surpassing 80 GW, speakers highlighted the need for accelerated delivery to achieve climate, security, and industrial goals.
Ben Backwell called for stronger political narratives and global collaboration: “Offshore wind is here to stay, we can't say the same for some of the political leaders that we see around us.”
→ More information here.
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| 📌 COP30 Ministerial on Doubling Energy Efficiency and Tripling Renewables 12 Nov, Brazil
Ben Backwell joined ministers and senior climate leaders, Selwin Hart, Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General, Josh Wilson, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy of Australia, UK Climate Envoy Rachel Kyte, Jaime de Bourbon de Parme, Climate Envoy of the Netherlands, and Ditte Jorgensen, Director-General for Energy at the European Commission to reinforce wind energy’s accelerating momentum and the policy reforms needed to sustain it.
He emphasised the scale of renewable deployment, with wind delivering around 135 GW this year, and urged policymakers to prioritise: Grid and storage investments Efficient, de-risked procurement processes Competitive financing mechanisms Diversified, resilient supply chains Protection against disinformation attacks so clean industries can deliver
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| 📌 UN Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change 14 Nov, Brazil
GWEC played a central role in the first-ever Information Integrity Day at COP30. More than 350 organisations signed a Joint Declaration urging governments to place information integrity at the heart of the COP process. At the press conference, Ben Backwell warned: “Wind is the most targeted renewable because it threatens the fossil status quo."
Ben later joined a panel hosted by the Brazilian government and the UN’s Information Integrity Unit, alongside Brazil’s Social Communication Secretary Joao Brant to discuss coordinated responses to growing disinformation including emerging AI-driven threats, he said: "Our ask to governments: protect the information ecosystem in the public interest so critical clean industries can deliver.”
→ Read the Declaration here. |
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| 📌 Women in Renewables Lunch with GRA & WiRE 13 Nov, Brazil
Against the backdrop of IRENA’s finding that women still make up only 32% of the renewables workforce, unchanged since 2019. This gathering highlighted the urgent need for gender equality across the sector and celebrated the leadership of women driving the transition forward. |
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| 📌 GWEC & SSI Sign MoU to Advance ESG and Traceability Standards 13 Nov, Brazil
GWEC and the Solar Stewardship Initiative (SSI) signed a major MoU to enhance sustainability, transparency, and resilience across renewable energy supply chains.
This partnership will help align best practices, enable knowledge exchange, and drive coordinated action to uphold these standards demonstrating our collective commitment to responsible growth that supports project financing and allows developers and utilities to expand confidently, without facing future compliance or sanction risks.
→ More information here. |
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| // Report Launches
GWEC launched a series of strategic reports providing governments, investors, and industry leaders with clear, actionable roadmaps to accelerate wind energy deployment. Each report translates climate ambition into practical steps from policy reform and permitting to finance, supply chains, and green industrialisation.
🧭 Unlocking Japan’s Offshore Wind Potential: Strategic Pathways to Overcome Market Bottlenecks and Drive Industrial Growth
11 Nov, Brazil
Offshore wind is central to Japan’s renewable energy strategy, but recent setbacks, including a Round 1 developer withdrawal and slow progress in Rounds 2 and 3, reveal structural and institutional hurdles to timely project delivery. This new paper sets out a clear roadmap for auction reform, bankable off-take mechanisms, and institutional strengthening to put Japan’s offshore wind sector back on track, restore investor confidence, and ensure timely project delivery.
The white paper was covered in Bloomberg and Japan’s leading electricity newspaper Denki Shimbun.
→ Read the White Paper here.
🧭 Mission Critical: Building the Latin America and the Caribbean Wind Energy Supply Chain for a Clean and Just Energy Transition
14 November, Brazil
GWEC's Deputy CEO, Rebecca Williams launched GWEC's second regional wind energy supply chain report during the EU-LAC High Level Dialogue.
This report aims to unlock the wind energy growth potential of the LAC region by helping industry and government navigate short-term challenges throughout the onshore wind value chain, providing recommends solutions to address those pain points, and highlighting its strengths and transition industries across five case study markets that can unlock this region’s offshore wind potential, and beyond into the global market.
→ Download the report here.
🧭 Innovative Finance Mechanisms for Southeast Asia’s Offshore Wind Take-off: A Study on Unlocking Blended Finance 14 November, Brazil
GWEC’s Deputy Director of Asia Advocacy, Janice Cheong launched this paper during the Innovative Finance Pathways to Power Offshore Wind’s Take-Off in Emerging Markets session. The report explores innovative tools that can support offshore wind project financing in emerging Southeast Asian markets such as Vietnam and the Philippines.
It outlines how concessional finance, guarantees, and other mechanisms available through development institutions, multilateral development banks, and export credit agencies can play a pivotal role in unlocking both local and international capital.
→ Download the report here.
🧭 Study Report on Renewable Energy Driving Green Industrialisation
15 November, Brazil
GWEC's decarbonisation study report was launched by GWEC’s Brazil Policy Officer, Gustavo Ferreira during the Industrial Decarbonisation with Wind Energy event at the CNI Pavilion. It outlines how wind energy can continue to accelerate Brazil’s energy transition while meeting the country’s growing electricity demand without compromising its already clean energy matrix. The report highlights the strategic role of offshore wind in supporting industrial growth, ensuring energy security, and maintaining Brazil’s leadership as one of the world’s cleanest power systems.
→ Download the report here. |
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| | | Catch up with GWEC’s COP30 Campaign video, CEO Ben Backwell on Brazilian TV and our Chief Research Officer, Feng Zhao on his first podcast appearance. |
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| | Wind. Powering The Future. GWEC COP30 video highlighting key messages from the wind industry. |
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| | Media Outreach with leading broadcasters BandNews TV and Record News: GWEC CEO, Ben Backwell discussed the vast potential of wind energy in Brazil and it’s climate leader opportunities. |
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| | Eolica Offshore Inteligente Podcast: Global Overview of Offshore Wind and Key Emerging Trends with Feng Zhao, Chief Research Officer, GWEC |
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