🌞 3 Data Points Beaming Towards Positive Climate Progress: Sunny Climate News

🗞️ EXTRA, extra: you have the power— to give the world Sunny Climate News

🌅 EXTRA, Extra— Sunny Climate News: on the Horizon

Howdy, folks! Wow how everything’s coming up solar. Heaps of it, and so here are beams of light pointing towards even more Sunny Climate News:

1. Clean Energy Progress ⚡ Thanks to renewable power, the world’s electricity supply is close to peak emissions

2. Climate Leadership in Action 📣 623,178 people, 8 nations, & 2,250 orgs say it’s time for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

3. Billions of Trillions of Climate Possibilities: 📈 Powering Solutions Onwards

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1. Clean Energy Progress⚡ Thanks to renewable power, the world’s electricity supply is close to peak emissions

🌅 wind+solar generation 📈 213TWh in first 6 months of 2023 (more than growth in global electricity demand of 59TWh)

“Time taken to add 1GW of solar PV globally ☀️

2000: more than a year

2010/11: two weeks

2015: one week

Now: less than a day”

—Hannah Ritchie

Ember Global Electricity Review

The world's largest offshore wind farm produces its first power

🥊 📉 "Solar and wind are now cost competitive with fossil fuels in most world regions, resulting in constantly reduced cost estimates of investments required to curb global warming" —STUDY: Technological innovation enables low cost climate change mitigation

Electrify Everything: The Clean Energy Coloring Book

THE RACE FOR 100% SOLAR

⚡ Happy Clean Energy Action Month to you! 💡

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2. Climate Leadership in Action: 📣 623,178 people, 8 nations, & 2,250 orgs say it’s time for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

A new climate change report offers something unique: hope

“What would induce anyone, at this stage, to hold on to power, only to be remembered for their inability to take action when it was urgent and necessary to do so?" —Pope Francis, TO ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS

The U.S. Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI) visualizes how drivers of cumulative vulnerability disadvantage communities across the United States. Better understanding of the intersections between growing climate risks and pre-existing, long-term health, social, environmental, and economic conditions is critical to effectively building climate resilience for everyone and deploying targeted adaptation efforts.

How everyday people started a movement that's shaping climate action to this day

How One Tiny Island Nation Is Replacing Fossil Fuels With Renewable Power

Take action this #BannedBookWeek

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3. Billions of Trillions of Climate Possibilities: 📈 Powering Solutions Onwards

Climate solutions are necessary. So we're dedicating a week to highlight them

The communities experimenting with how to be more resilient to a changing climate

Innovators share what helped convince them to take climate action

How eco-drag queen Pattie Gonia defines what it means to fight for the environment

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That’s it for this week! Thanks for catching-up & showing-up where you are to harvest a more beautiful & renewable world. 💚

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Stay clean-energy-cool & plugged-in:

Let us know what brightness you’re up-to beautifying our world:

Finally—THANK YOU, for all you do! For tomorrow, today— the future thanks you, too.

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Last week’s edition:

Microplastic Drip

[Microplastics] Both Sides Now [Surrounding] (& a Ranking of the Top 12 Versions of Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now)

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Climate Poetry Corner

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