Trump’s decision to pull support for the US renewable energy sector means that in the IEA’s central scenario the US will have about 30% less solar power by 2035 than forecast in last year’s report. But at a global level renewables will continue their “rapid expansion”, it said

Jones added: “There’s a revolution happening right now and it’s in renewables and electrification. The evidence on the ground is overwhelming – EV sales are taking off in many emerging countries, solar is permeating even through the Middle East.

“The IEA’s report confirms what many climate-vulnerable communities have known for years: the fossil fuel era is ending but governments are still dragging their feet when it comes to building the clean energy systems that need to replace it. Oil and coal are peaking, renewables are surging, yet public money continues to flow into new fossil fuel projects that the IEA itself says we simply don’t need,” Paoli said.