By 2017, 128 countries have adopted renewable energy support policies, compared to just 48 countries in 2005. These policies played a crucial role in helping countries to shift from conventional energy to renewable energy by overcoming the barriers facing the development of renewable energy....

It has long been recognised that energy supply disruption due to geopolitical issues, forces of nature or transient economic events have far-reaching adverse economic and social effects on energy importing countries and severe effects on producing and transit countries due to the loss of...