Capturing Green Recovery Opportunities from Wind Power in Developing Economies reflects a study of wind energy potential in developing economies around the world over the next five years, from 2022-2026, with the aim to highlight the vast and largely unexploited socioeconomic and environmental opportunities attached to wind energy. Accelerated deployment of wind projects will not only support climate action, but help countries to realise a range of benefits from job creation to cleaner air. The study identifies three common barriers facing wind energy deployment in developing economies and provides recommendations on how these barriers can be overcome.
Five developing economies in particular were selected as country studies for wind power in developing economies: Brazil, India, South Africa, Mexico, and the Philippines. These were selected because they face particular socio-political and economic challenges related to COVID-19, which threaten to slow down the clean energy transition, as well as for having significant and still largely untapped wind energy resource.
Capturing Green Recovery Opportunities from Wind Power in Developing Economies was commissioned by GWEC.