Latin America. The Latin American region depends on a lower percentage of the use of renewable energies than the rest of the world's continents and its numbers are below the world average.
According to the United Nations International Energy Agency, Latin America uses 68% of its energy from non-renewable sources, while the global average is 87%; in Europe the dependency is 90%, the United States reports 94% and Japan 97%.
On the subject of electrical energy, our region uses 69% of the total comes from renewable sources, with 66% from hydroelectric, and 3% from biomass (of vegetable origin). Alternative sources such as wind and solar also record a small portion of the market.
Together, planet earth implements 18% renewable energy, the same percentage as Africa and the European Union. In China, on the other hand, the figure is 17%, in the US it is 11% and in Japan 9%
Brazil is the country in the region that is most implementing this type of resources. According to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Latin America has made investments in clean energy of around $90 billion from 2006 to 2011. 80% of that figure belongs to Brazilians.
