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Thursday, November 5, 2015

The Renewable Energy Era?

Last year, for the first time in four decades, the global economy grew without an increase in CO2 emissions.  70 percent of new power capacity added in Europe in 2011 were renewables. Developing countries became home to more than one-third of global wind power capacity.
 Renewable energy investment in developing countries in 2014 was up 36 percent from 2013 and came the closest ever to surpassing the investment total for developed countries ($131 vs. $139 billion). Read more at http://www.newsecuritybeat.org/