Pointing to the great promise renewables hold for affordably mitigating climate change and enhancing energy security, the IEA warns governments to reduce policy uncertainties that are acting as brakes on greater deployment.

“Renewables are poised to seize the crucial top spot in global power supply growth, but this is hardly the time for complacency,” said IEA executive director Fatih Birol as he released the body’s Medium-term Renewable Energy Market Report 2015 at a two-day G20 energy ministers meeting in Istanbul.

“Governments