However, IEA noted that wages in clean energy jobs lag behind those in the fossil fuel industry.

Canada needs to leverage clean electricity to achieve steep emissions reductions in the transport, industry and oil and gas sectors, says IEA

Demand for more power and aviation transport, as well as infrastructure construction, will fuel this growth

The world’s best solar power schemes now offer the "cheapest … electricity in history".

“The crisis has brought lower emissions but for all the wrong reasons,” Fatih Birol, executive director at the IEA, said in a statement.

The findings show energy-related CO2 emissions remained at a record of 33.3 billion tons

This growth will be catalyzed by a further 15 to 35 percent decline in the cost of solar power by 2024