COLUMNIST: The positive climate news you may have missed this year |
So much climate news comes out in any given week that it can be hard to keep up with it all. Much is gloomy, but there are positive developments all the time--so many, in fact, that it's easy to miss some of what's been happening.
Here's my selection of major developments over the past 12 months:
You might not know it from the prevailing mood of Trump-era defeatism, but in some parts of the world, decarbonizing electricity is approaching its endgame. Roughly three-quarters of power generation in the UK and Europe this year came from non-fossil sources, putting them in about the same........