Renewables Soar
But Coal and Oil are Still Climbing
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Visualized: Renewable Energy Capacity Through Time (2000–2023)
Global renewable energy capacity has grown by 415% since 2000, however, many large and wealthy regions, including the United States and Europe, have lower renewable capacity growth.
4 Renewable Energy
Austria’s support gets EU biodiversity law over the line
"Today's vote is a massive victory for Europe's nature and citizens who have been long calling for immediate action to tackle nature's alarming decline."
2 Build Political Will, 9 Restore Our Environment, Link
Five things we learned from the UN’s climate mega-poll
"Almost two-thirds of people in Uganda say they think about climate change every day while less than one-third of people in the US, Japan, China, France or the UK do the same."
1 Act Now
Analysis: Wind and solar added more to global energy than any other source in 2023
"record global demand for energy saw coal and oil use also reaching new highs last year"
4 Renewable Energy
Banks Are Finally Realizing What Climate Change Will Do to Housing
"climate change impacts on housing will force some [people] to move elsewhere"
10 Dangerous Limits, 8 Sustainable Cities
City sprawl is now large enough to sway global warming over land
Once thought to cover too little of the Earth's surface to affect climate at larger scales, the new work suggests that urbanization does indeed have a detectable influence on global warming over land.
8 Sustainable Cities, 9 Restore Our Environment, Link
Courage or Hope? Facing the Climate Future
"The fact is, we’re not doing something about climate. You noticed that, right?"
1 Act Now, 2 Build Political Will
The Hawai’i Youth Climate Trial
"attorneys for the state argued that responsibility for the planet-warming emissions at issue lies with fossil fuel companies"
3 Eliminate Fossil Fuels
#ShowYourStripes Day: What the ‘Warming Stripes’ Tell Us About Climate Change
"the 'warming stripes' are visual representations of annual or monthly temperature anomalies for a specific location or region over the past 100+ years"
10 Dangerous Limits, Dire Warnings
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