Renewable Energy Share

Since the Industrial Revolution, the energy mix of most countries across the world has become dominated by fossil fuels. This has major implications for the global climate, as well as for human health. Three-quarters of global greenhouse gas emissions result from the burning of fossil fuels for energy. And fossil fuels are responsible for large amounts of local air pollution – a health problem that leads to at least 5 million premature deaths each year.

To reduce CO2 emissions and local air pollution, the world needs to rapidly shift towards low-carbon sources of energy – nuclear and renewable technologies.

This dataset is published by Our World in Data
Hannah Ritchie, Max Roser and Pablo Rosado (2020) - “Renewable Energy” Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from this [link] (https://ourworldindata.org/renewable-energy)