- "Renewable resources include sunlight, wind, the movement of water, and geothermal heat."
This type of sustainability focuses on designing products and systems that promote energy efficiency and use renewable energy sources.
Renewable Energy Sources: Energy sources that can be replenished naturally and are not finite resources, such as solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and biomass.
Energy Efficiency: The practice of reducing the amount of energy needed to perform a task or operate a system, through the use of efficient technologies, processes, and practices.
Green Building Design: Designing buildings that maximize energy efficiency, minimize environmental impact, and incorporate renewable energy sources.
Energy Management and Conservation: The process of monitoring, controlling, and reducing energy consumption in buildings, homes, and businesses.
Smart Grid Technology: Technology that enables the efficient, reliable, and secure integration of renewable energy sources into the power grid, and helps balance supply and demand.
Life-cycle Assessment: A comprehensive analysis of the environmental impact of a product or service throughout its entire life cycle, from raw material extraction to disposal.
Carbon Footprint: The amount of greenhouse gases emitted by an individual, organization, or product, throughout its life cycle.
Energy Storage: The process of storing energy to be used at a later time, using technologies such as batteries, flywheels, and pumped hydro storage.
Distributed Energy Systems: Decentralized energy systems that allow for the production and distribution of energy from multiple small-scale sources, such as solar panels and wind turbines.
Policy and Regulation: Government policies and regulations aimed at promoting energy sustainability, such as renewable energy incentives, energy efficiency standards, and carbon taxes.
Renewable energy sustainability: This refers to the use of renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and biomass to reduce carbon emissions.
Energy-efficient sustainability: This refers to the design and construction practices that reduce the energy requirements of buildings, appliances, and other equipment.
Green building sustainability: This refers to designing buildings that are eco-friendly by using energy-efficient materials, natural ventilation, and daylight to reduce energy consumption.
Energy recovery sustainability: This refers to the practice of recycling waste heat and converting it into useful energy.
Sustainable transportation sustainability: This refers to the use of alternative fuels, electric and hybrid vehicles, and efficient public transportation to reduce CO2 emissions.
Passive solar design sustainability: This refers to designing buildings that capture natural light, heat, and coolness from the sun to reduce energy consumption.
Integrated sustainability: This refers to the coordination of sustainability in all aspects of design, including energy, water, waste, and material use.
Net-zero energy sustainability: This refers to designing buildings that produce as much energy as they consume, using renewable energy sources and energy-efficient design.
Life-cycle sustainability: This refers to the consideration of environmental impacts throughout the entire life cycle of a product or building, including design, manufacturing, use, and disposal.
Carbon footprint sustainability: This refers to the measurement and reduction of carbon emissions produced by a product or building throughout its life cycle.
- "Although most renewable energy sources are sustainable, some are not."
- "Renewable energy is often used for electricity generation, heating and cooling."
- "Renewable energy projects are typically large-scale, but they are also suited to rural and remote areas and developing countries."
- "From 2011 to 2021, renewable energy grew from 20% to 28% of global electricity supply."
- "Use of fossil energy shrank from 68% to 62%, and nuclear from 12% to 10%."
- "Power from sun and wind increased from 2% to 10%."
- "The share of hydropower decreased from 16% to 15%."
- "There are 3,146 gigawatts installed in 135 countries."
- "156 countries have laws regulating the renewable energy sector."
- "In 2021, China accounted for almost half of the global increase in renewable electricity."
- "Globally there are over 10 million jobs associated with the renewable energy industries."
- "Solar photovoltaics being the largest renewable employer."
- "Renewable energy systems are rapidly becoming more efficient and cheaper."
- "A large majority of worldwide newly installed electricity capacity being renewable."
- "Many nations around the world already have renewable energy contributing more than 20% of their total energy supply."
- "Some studies have shown that a global transition to 100% renewable energy across all sectors – power, heat, transport, and industry – is feasible and economically viable."
- "Deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies is resulting in significant energy security, climate change mitigation, and economic benefits."
- "Renewables are being hindered by hundreds of billions of dollars of fossil fuel subsidies."
- "In international public opinion surveys, there is strong support for renewables such as solar power and wind power."