Second, we need direct support for research, development and deployment of renewable technologies.
Mr. Yood said that Google's primary goal was to earn a return from its investment but that the company also hopes to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy.
A major obstacle in the deployment of renewable energy beyond 30 per cent of the grid power is the poor integration of current electricity grids.
Since 2008 global deployment of renewable technologies – led by Europe – has seen solar panel costs fall by 80% and wind turbine costs fall by 29%.
They are then ranked according to their emissions level, the trend in emissions, the deployment of renewable energy, the energy intensity of the economy and climate policies.
"The growth of non-fossil-fuel power generation in China in the past few years is the largest deployment of renewable energy in history," said Greenpeace's Lauri Myllyvirta.
"We're aiming to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy - in a way that makes good business sense, too," Rick Needham, green business operations manager at Google, wrote on the company's blog.
In a letter released Sept. 1, Greenpeace International's executive director, Kumi Naidoo, challenged Facebook's chief executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg "to drive the deployment of renewable energy sources needed to avert the most devastating possible effects of our changing climate".
Organisations involved in this sector will be seeking to build up their legal expertise, as commercial deployment of renewable energy technologies (for example, offshore marine energy installations) present many complexities and issues which require legal input.
Deployment of renewable energy is moving even faster on the continent, with Portugal running its entire electricity network for four days in May entirely on solar, wind and hydropower.
The report measures actual emission levels per capita, the trend in emissions projections, the deployment of renewable energy, and the energy intensity of the economy, and assesses climate policies for each of the 58 countries.
