A Landmark Achievement for Renewable Energy in 2014

The headline from Quartz doesn’t hold back: "Renewable energy just had its best year ever."

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June 27, 2015, 9:00 AM PDT

Cassie Werber reports: "The International Energy Agency last week sounded an unusually positive note, with one piece of data at the center: global growth is now possible without increased carbon emissions."

That possibility is already reality, according to Werber: "In 2014, for the first time, global GDP grew but CO2 emissions stayed flat (pdf, p. 17). The two had 'decoupled…'"

Werber finds more good news in a separate report from REN21 [pdf], finding that "23 countries are producing more than 10% of their final energy use—that is, not just electricity—from renewables."

FULL STORY: Charts: Renewable energy just had its best year ever

Thursday, June 25, 2015 in Quartz

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