The news when it comes to climate change isn’t exclusively catastrophic. Quick-developing global megatrends suggest the fight is not over yet
1. The rapid renewables boom
Rapidly declining production costs for solar panels and wind turbines – costs have dropped 90 per cent in the past 10 years for solar for example – mean that renewable energy is often now the cheapest form available in many parts of the world. Bear in mind that two-thirds of all new power in 2016 was renewable, and growth has been exponential, much quicker than most people anticipated.
2. Plugging away: electric cars
Electric cars are now being made for the mass market. Concern over air pollution in urban areas is helping fuel a surging market for battery-powered cars, and China is out in front. The country shifts as many electric cars each month as the US and Europe combined. Almost all the major carmakers have now committed to make electric vehicles too, or end production of purely fossil-fuelled…
