{"id":71058,"date":"2016-03-28T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=71058"},"modified":"2016-03-27T17:45:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T16:45:41","slug":"renewable-energy-investments-set-new-record-twice-that-of-coal-and-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/03\/renewable-energy-investments-set-new-record-twice-that-of-coal-and-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewable Energy Investments Set New Record, Twice That of Coal and Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Global investment in renewable energy was more than twice that of coal and gas last year, according to a\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&amp;id=d52c49ba01&amp;e=d462721836\" >new report<\/a>, despite plummeting fossil fuel prices.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_71059\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/wind-farm-renewables-energy.jpg\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-71059\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71059\" class=\"wp-image-71059\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/wind-farm-renewables-energy.jpg\" alt=\"A wind farm in Washington state. Photo credit: Daniel Parks \/ flickr\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/wind-farm-renewables-energy.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/wind-farm-renewables-energy-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-71059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wind farm in Washington state. Photo credit: Daniel Parks \/ flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>25 Mar 2016 &#8211; <\/em>Renewable energy investment totaled a record $286 billion, with China, India, Brazil and other developing countries\u00a0accounting for\u00a0$156 billion\u00a0in 2015. China\u2019s investment alone rose 17 percent from the\u00a0year prior, representing\u00a036 percent of the global total. Experts expect this surge to continue, while coal remains in decline; China also <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2016\/03\/24\/china-puts-brakes-on-new-coal-plants\/\" >announced<\/a> this week that they will be suspending construction of new coal mines in 15 provinces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/renewable-energy-investments.jpg\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-71060\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-71060\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/renewable-energy-investments.jpg\" alt=\"renewable energy investments\" width=\"600\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/renewable-energy-investments.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/renewable-energy-investments-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investment in the U.S. also rose dramatically, while Europe\u2019s fell by $49 billion, despite a surge in offshore wind. This global upward trend in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/business\/renewables\/\" >renewables<\/a> must continue to grow for many countries to meet their <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?s=paris+agreement\" >Paris climate targets<\/a>, analysts caution.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2016\/03\/25\/renewable-energy-investments\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 ecowatch.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global investment in renewable energy was more than twice that of coal and gas last year, according to a new report, despite plummeting fossil fuel prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}