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KLD/Jantzi Global Alternative Energy Index (GAE) The KLD/Jantzi Global Alternative Energy Index (GAE) includes renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, geothermal, and tidal as well as alternatives to fossil fuels such as biofuels, biomass, landfill methane, hydrogen and natural gas based fuels, and fuel cells. The GAE holds companies that:

• Generate and distribute power from renewable energy sources;
• Produce alternative fuels with little or no negative externalities to the environment or human health (or from renewable or cleaner sources);
• Supply technologies, equipment, and components for renewable or alternative energy; and
• Promote renewable or alternative energy projects (i.e. financing, design, construction, management).

This category would also include companies that supply materials, specific-use parts and services to original equipment manufacturers and generators of electricity or fuel from renewable and alternative resources.

Global Drivers of Hybrid Technologies and Alternative Fuels:

• Energy demand is ever increasing throughout the world, especially with the rapid economic growth of China, India and other emerging countries. According to the International Energy Agency, Global energy demand might grow by more than half over the next 25 years.
• Conventional carbon based fuels (oil and gas) are finite and becoming increasingly difficult and expensive to find and extract.
• Traditional fuels contribute widely to Greenhouse gases emissions through the CO2 emitted during their production and their use.
• Countries try more and more to securitize their energy sources and to lessen their dependence on non-renewable sources and politically unstable regions.
• For biofuels, the debate food vs. Fuels that arose in 2008 is bound to lead the 1st generation of bio fuels (made with edible sources) to extinction apart from some specific countries - such as Brazil - where ethanol is produced in a sustainable way.