Governments have set targets, but  enterprises and banks will ihave to  take on a greater role to meet them.

Investments in renewable energy has  grown rapidly to reach a record level of US$286 billion last year.

It needs to double before the end of this decade and grow further, to more than three times current levels in the 2020s, to support the climate change goals agreed in Paris last year.

Changing economics has been the deciding factor behind speeding up a renewable energy roll-out.

COP 22 is starting to identify  a growing number of projects that will be created simply because they make sense economically.

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The conference will grapple with how to implement the Paris climate change agreement that came into force last week.

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Morocco’s been powering ahead on climate change in a region beset with a military coup, chaotic regime change and civil war.

The kingdom’s ranked the world’s sixth best country in the 2016 Climate Change Performance Index.

It’s the only non-European country in the top-20.

Earlier this year, Morocco opened Noor 1, a solar power plant in the Sahara so enormous it can be seen from space.

It’s all part of a push to generate 52% of its energy from renewables by 2030.

Two years ago the turbines started spinning at Tarfaya, the largest wind farm in Africa.

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