Climate Change
☀️ EU will hit renewable energy targets ahead of time
Solar power growth in EU set to exceed 2030 targets ahead of schedule. 41 gigawatts of new solar capacity added in 2022, marking a 40 percent increase from 2021.
🏭 U.S. makes billion-dollar investment in carbon capture technology
Two large-scale facilities in Texas and Louisiana set to remove millions of tons of CO2 from the atmosphere annually.
🌡️ New IPCC chairman: Talk of doomsday doesn't help in climate efforts
"If you constantly communicate the message that we are all doomed to extinction, then that paralyzes people", says the new chairman of the UN:s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
🏭 Global climate emissions no longer on worst-case trajectory
Global CO2 emissions no longer align with the direst predictions and are now veering towards a moderate trajectory. The rapidly accelerating energy transition drives the shift, courtesy of falling clean energy technology costs.
🌞 The Angry Optimist on climate optimism at Stockholm Climate Week
VIDEO: Warp News' Mathias Sundin spoke about a tsunami of climate solutions at Stockholm Climate Week.
🙈 Climate skeptics slow down progress
Here are two arguments for why we should transition to sustainability, that have nothing to do with climate change.
📉 Lithium price drop could boost electric vehicle sales
Lithium prices have gone up in the last years, contributing to increased costs for electric car batteries. But now prices are dropping.
😟 Hey, kids – drop the climate anxiety
"A millennial couple recounting how they wrestled for a decade (!) with the “ethical quandary” of whether to bring “another human onto an already crowded planet.” (she wanted to raise a “climate ally,” he feared for the child’s future)," writes Ulrika G. Gerth
💡 Optimist's Edge: Satellite mapping of greenhouse gases helps us stop climate change
Satellites help us better understand our planet, how the atmosphere is affected by emissions, and understand in detail what we need to do to stop climate change.