Historic high temperatures are being recorded worldwide. Soaring petroleum prices and supply shortfalls are exacerbating market instability and economic inflation. According to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), these trends are connected and symptomatic of a disorderly, volatile energy transition. To help alleviate these conditions, GWEC has issued a five-point action plan for how policymakers can accelerate renewables deployment to achieve energy security and affordability, and also meet their climate goals.

With five actions, governments can speed the deployment of green energy to ease the energy security and climate crises, while avoiding decisions that lock in fossil fuel dependency and risk worse problems in the future.

1. Urgently streamline permitting to produce a huge increase in wind capacity in the next one to three years and build a net zero-compatible project pipeline.
2. Implement a grid access action plan to get large volumes of renewable energy connected.
3. Introduce simplified mechanisms for clean power procurement and pricing to rapidly unlock investment.
4. Avoid locking in large-scale fossil fuel-based generation.
5. Commit to firm energy transition plans and milestones to allow the renewables industry to plan for healthy supply chain development.

Policymakers are urged to make sensible decisions that prioritize the energy transition and are sensitive to the social, economic, environmental and national security risks of prolonged dependency on fossil fuels. These five steps are intended to usher in a system transformation that benefits all of society.