The total deployment of wind power from 2019 to 2023 avoids approximately 830 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (GtCO₂) annually worldwide. China avoids the largest volume of emissions from wind power, at almost 490 MtCO₂. In 2023, global wind capacity additions increased 60 percent year-on-year.
Avoided annual emissions from wind power deployment worldwide from 2019 to 2023, by country
(in million metric tons of carbon dioxide)
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