This paper examines the environmental impacts of implementing alternatives to burning fossil fuels and biomass, or "clean” energy sources, and the prominence that geo-economic factors hold in terms of our global energy consumption. My paper questions the influence that varying different renewable and non-renewable energy sources have on decarbonization, while shining light on the drawbacks and partially adverse contributions that these sources impose. My work contributes to our understanding of the near-direct relationship between rising levels of economic activity and energy consumption in both wealthy and developing countries, by source. Energy efficiency policies and programs such as investments incentives and tax benefits encourage projects that contribute less to global anthropogenic emissions by reducing energy usage, as well as raising the corporate standards of social responsibility and consumer ideas within their markets. There is a happy medium of economic fluctuation that satisfies our living standards and the environment's remaining threshold for damage in implementing sustainable methods of regulation.