๐ 3 Data Points Beaming Towards Positive Climate Progress: Sunny Climate News
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EXTRA, Extraโ Sunny Climate News: on the Horizon
Howdy, folks! Wow how everythingโs coming up solar. Heaps of it, and so here are beams of light pointing towards even more Sunny Climate News:
Clean Energy Progress โก Thanks to renewable power, the worldโs electricity supply is close to peak emissions
Climate Leadership in Action ๐ฃ 623,178 people, 8 nations, & 2,250 orgs say itโs time for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
Billions of Trillions of Climate Possibilities: ๐ Powering Solutions Onwards
1. Clean Energy Progressโก Thanks to renewable power, the worldโs electricity supply is close to peak emissions
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wind+solar generation ๐ 213TWh in first 6 months of 2023 (more than growth in global electricity demand of 59TWh)
โTime taken to add 1GW of solar PV globally โ๏ธ
2000: more than a year
2010/11: two weeks
2015: one week
Now: less than a dayโ
The world's largest offshore wind farm produces its first power
๐ฅ ๐ "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" โSTUDY: Technological innovation enables low cost climate change mitigation
2. Climate Leadership in Action: ๐ฃ 623,178 people, 8 nations, & 2,250 orgs say itโs time for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
A new climate change report offers something unique: hope
โWhat 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?" โPope Francis, TO ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS

How One Tiny Island Nation Is Replacing Fossil Fuels With Renewable Power
3. Billions of Trillions of Climate Possibilities: ๐ Powering Solutions Onwards
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
Thatโs it for this week! Thanks for catching-up & showing-up where you are to harvest a more beautiful & renewable world. ๐
Stay clean-energy-cool & plugged-in:
Let us know what brightness youโre up-to beautifying our world:
FinallyโTHANK YOU, for all you do! For tomorrow, todayโ the future thanks you, too.
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