The planet's energy mix is changing, with businesses and nations turning to renewable energy.
Around the world, big businesses and governments are searching for ways to increase their use of renewable sources of energy and, at the same time, reduce their impact on the environment.
It was set up in 2004 following the International Conference on Renewable Energy in Bonn and issues reports "to help drive the global transition to renewable energy." "If we look at the energy that we consume globally we need to keep in mind that most of it, actually more than 80%, is used for heating and cooling as well as for transport," Thomas Andre, a project manager and analyst at REN21, told CNBC, adding that renewables were "barely increasing" in those two sectors.
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