• Has the most solar panels per capita
• Renewable energy projects in many developing countries have demonstrated that renewable energy can directly contribute to reducing poverty by providing the energy needed for certain businesses and employment.
• Renewable energy technologies can also make indirect contributions to reducing poverty by providing energy for cooking, heating and lighting.
• Renewable energy can also contribute to education by providing electricity to schools.
• Renewable energy for cooking and heating can reduce the time that children spend out of school collecting fuel.
• As part of the Kyoto Protocol, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) allows industrialised nations to invest in projects that reduce emissions in developing countries as an alternative to more expensive emission reductions in their own countries. (Joint implementation program in kyoto protocol)
• More developing countries are implementing the public policies needed for the widespread development of renewable energy technology.

China, India and Brazil

• China and India are leaders in developing local renewable sources of energy such as small hydro, small wind, biogas, and solar water heating projects.
• Brazil produces most of the world‘s sugar-derived ethanol and has been adding new biomass and wind power plants to meet growing energy demand.