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T1 Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2016
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A1 Frankfurt School – UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance, 
A1 Bloomberg New Energy Finance, 
A2 McCrone, Angus
A2 Moslener, Ulf
A2 d’Estais, Françoise
A2 Usher, Eric
A2 Byrne, Joseph
A2 Mills, Luke
A2 Strahan, David
A2 Boyle, Rohan
A2 Collins, Bryony
A2 Stopforth, Kieron
A2 Becker, Lisa
K1 energy efficiency
K1 renewable energy source
K1 sustainable energy
K1 developing country
K1 developed country
K1 China
K1 India
K1 Brazil
K1 fossil fuel
K1 electric vehicle
K1 investment
K1 equity
K1 venture capital
PB Frankfurt School of Finance and Management gGmbH
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/33389
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/33389
NO Renewable energy set new records in 2015 for dollar investment, the amount of new capacity added and the relative importance of developing countries in that growth. All this happened in a year in which prices of fossil fuel commodities – oil, coal and gas – plummeted, causing distress to many companies involved in the hydrocarbon sector. So far, the drivers of investment in renewables,including climate change policies and improving cost-competitiveness, have been more than sufficient to enable renewables to keep growing their share of world electricity generation at the expense of carbon-emitting sources.The following renewable energy projects are included: all biomass and waste-to-energy, geothermal, and wind generation projects of more than 1MW; all hydropower projects of between 1MW and 50MW; all wave and tidal energy projects; all biofuel projects with a capacity of one million litres or more per year; and all solar projects, with those less than 1MW estimated separately and referred to as small-scale projects, or small distributed capacity, in this report.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 17, 2026