Percentage of the world's electricity generated from renewable sources (hydro, wind, solar, bioenergy, geothermal, marine). A core welfare indicator because higher clean-power shares displace fossil generation, cutting air-pollution and climate harm while improving energy resilience.
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Readings above the normal line are better than normal; readings below it are worse.
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Measured value over time. The line runs green while the indicator is better than its dashed normal line and red when it’s worse.
Each driver linked to this indicator, strongest pull first, on the same timeline above. Markers are the facts that moved that driver. These are modelled influences — treat them as correlational unless a documented causal edge is shown.
New renewable capacity directly raises the renewable share of global electricity generation, with roughly a year lag from commissioning to full-year output.
Renewable-Energy Deployment: raises welfare, impact strength 90%, 0 linked facts on the timeline.A faster honest transition raises the renewable share of electricity generation. This is a neighbouring generation meter, not a twin driver.
Pace of Climate Transition: raises welfare, impact strength 80%, 0 linked facts on the timeline.High fossil-fuel subsidies lower the relative cost of fossil generation, dampening the competitive displacement that would otherwise raise the renewable share.
Fossil-fuel subsidies: lowers welfare, impact strength 55%, 0 linked facts on the timeline.New fields and unabated coal plans delay displacement of fossil generation. COP28 also called for tripling renewables; that buildout is a neighbouring driver. No invented share coefficient.
Fossil fuel phaseout struggle: lowers welfare, impact strength 50%, 0 linked facts on the timeline.Climate finance that actually connects generation can raise renewable electricity share. Buildout remains the capacity companion.
Climate-Finance Availability: raises welfare, impact strength 50%, 0 linked facts on the timeline.Binding climate policy — carbon pricing, clean-energy investment and coal phase-outs — accelerates renewable deployment, raising the renewable share of electricity.
Decarbonization and climate-mitigation policy: raises welfare, impact strength 40%, 0 linked facts on the timeline.