Climate Good News

Let’s celebrate the positive climate stories because we all deserve hope.

August 2024 Post:

BMJ calls for research on climate associations with neurological disorders: https://neurologyopen.bmj.com/pages/climate-change-and-neurological-health
The cost of energy generation from renewable sources is cheaper than from fossil fuels and it will continue to get even cheaper
85% of all new electricity-generating capacity built worldwide in 2023 was renewable.
Electric Vehicles (EVs) are starting to become cheaper to purchase in the US than the average american car price including gas powered cars: Manufacturers like Tesla, Hyundai-Kia, and General Motors, offer EVs with a range of over 300 miles for less than the average new car price. Hyundai’s 2024 Ioniq 6 has a range of 361 miles and costs 25% less than the national average. This trend will only continue as the options for mid to less expensive EVs continue to roll out.
The Weekly Anthropocene: has articles about hope for the world related to climate. Some recent articles include:
- China’s coal generation dropped from 60% to 53% of it’s total energy generation and it is replacing it with non-fossil fuel sources like solar, wind and some nuclear, not other fossil fuels.
- China now generates 33% of it’s energy from non-fossil fuel sources.
- Reports state that the total installed wind and solar capacity in China has now overtaken it’s total coal capacity, and it is expected that solar alone will surpass coal by 2026.
- (In contrast, the US currently only generates 21% of it’s energy from non-fossil fuel sources, though some states are doing much better than this; the US has a big opportunity with solar and wind generation typically costing less than fossil fuels.)
Climate Clock “Newsfeed of Hope” on Instagram and Linked-In: [I am trying to get a link through their website. (Here are a few recent stories:)]
- Claudia Sheinbaum becomes Mexico’s first woman president – with a background in environmental engineering.
- Investment in clean energy to overtake fossil fuel spending in 2024
RMI Newsletter, another brief and excellent source of climate energy good news.
Into the Clear Blue Sky: A recently published and highly relevant and hopeful book by Rob Jackson, chair of the Global Carbon Project: https://woods.stanford.edu/news/clear-blue-sky-moving-climate-despair-climate-repair
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