Miquel Muñoz is Contributor to Global Renewable Energy Report

Dr. Miquel Muñoz, Pardee Center Post-Doctoral Fellow, is among the contributors and served as a Lead Country Research for the Renewables Global Status Report 2011, produced by the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), and released in Paris on July 13. Dr. Muñoz has contributed to all six editions of the Global Status Report since its inception in 2005.

REN21 is a global policy network that provides a forum for international leadership on renewable energy, supporting the rapid expansion of renewable energies in developing and developed countries. Open to a wide variety of stakeholders, REN21 connects governments, international institutions, non-governmental organizations, academia, industry associations, and other partnerships and initiatives.  It also publishes a renewables interactive map.

The report highlights that in 2010:

• renewable energy supplied an estimated 16 percent of global final energy consumption

• solar photovoltaics (PV) more than doubled thanks to declining costs

• global investments in renewables rose more than 30 percent to a record $211 billion

• emerging and developing economies saw an increase in the share of renewables in policies, investment, supply and use

Dr. Muñoz’s research interests include renewable energy and climate change policies and emerging linkages amongst them, technology and trade aspects of climate change, international cooperation on sustainable energy, and the costs of global environmental governance.