Report on Solutions to Global Issues: Energy Use - [Course Name]

This report addresses the global issue of increasing energy demand, primarily driven by developing countries and population growth, and its reliance on non-renewable resources. It highlights the shift towards renewable energy sources like geothermal, wind, and solar, as a sustainable alternative to reduce harmful emissions. The report also emphasizes the 3R framework (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) to minimize the impact of industrialization on non-renewable resources. It discusses policy recommendations by the International Energy Agency (IEA), including tax incentives, subsidies, and purchase prices to promote renewable energy adoption and foster a competitive market. The report references key studies that support the findings and provides a comprehensive overview of the subject matter.

Running head: SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL ISSUES
SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL ISSUES
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1SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL ISSUES
The developing countries and increase in world population can be described as the
two main attributes which has led towards the increasing trend in world energy use. With the
present production and consumption pattern, it is clearly visible that the non-renewable
sources of energy will soon run out. As a result, the developed nations have mainly
propagated two measures to address this energy-climate crisis. The first being the
replacements of non-renewable sources with renewable sources of energy like geothermal,
wind, solar, biomass and hydropower. The use of these resources to harness energy is one of
the most sustainable and non-toxic methods to generate electricity, as because, it doesn’t
produce harmful and polluted emissions. Another major measure taken by the developed
nations is the initiation of 3R Conceptual framework – Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. The aim
of this framework is to construct a sound material-society where valuable goods are not
wasted and the impact of industrialization on non-renewable resources is limited (Chu, Cui &
Liu, 2017).
The International Energy Agency (IEA) and other bodies like the European
Commission are prioritizing on reduction of energy demand throughout the world by
introducing a set of long term policies to exhibit those reductions. The government must
change or create policies to modify fossil fuel prices to reflect consequences on the
environment that would make the renewable resources economically competitive. Another
policy adopted by countries like Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands,
Japan and The United States, is to provide tax incentives as well as subsidies to establish
equipment in order to generate electricity. Still, another policy need be to created as purchase
prices, through which the government would be able to create a law that would set a fixed
price at which the low-scale renewable energy generators could get admission to the
electricity grid. This creates an atmosphere of competitive market and leads to a sustainable
environment (Liu, 2013).

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References
Chu, S., Cui, Y., & Liu, N. (2017). The path towards sustainable energy. Nature
materials, 16(1), 16.
Liu, Z., Guan, D., Crawford-Brown, D., Zhang, Q., He, K., & Liu, J. (2013). Energy policy:
A low-carbon road map for China. Nature, 500(7461), 143.