With the world's fossil fuel stocks running out there is an increasing awareness globally on switching to renewable energy sources. It's perhaps best evident in Sweden, a country which currently meets around 52 percent of its total energy needs through renewable sources.

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In 2015 Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson, while addressing the UN, had laid out an ambitious plan to make his country "one of the first fossil fuel-free welfare states of the world."

The country which since 2013 has been gradually increasing its dependency on renewable energy has set a goal of going fossil fuel-free by the year 2020. The country is also pumping in large amount of resources in an effort to embrace green-energy. An extra $546 million was allocated in the budget 2016 for renewable energy and climate change action.

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Other countries which are leading in the use of renewable energy are Latvia (37 %), Finland (36.8%), Austria (32.9%), Denmark (27.8%).

Even though there is an increasing awareness, India still has a long way to go if the country is to switch to renewable energy. As of 2015, only 15 percent of the country's total energy production came from non-conventional sources.

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India has however set an ambitious target of producing 40 per cent of its total power capacity from renewable sources by 2030.