In our new weekly series, we’re covering the vast amount of investment, ingenuity and scientific expertise going toward stopping climate change.
As we report on climate change, it’s all too easy to get caught up in the often troubling news.
Ferocious storms wreak havoc around the globe. Planet warming-emissions keep rising. Scientists warn of catastrophic tipping points.
Yet those headlines, crucially important as they are, often overshadow a different, equally important narrative: In recent years, the world has begun making rapid strides toward a cleaner, more resilient future, one in which modern society is powered with renewable energy, and the challenges of a hotter planet are not quite so perilous. This year alone, investments in clean energy will hit $2 trillion, according to the International Energy Agency.
Today, in an effort to highlight some of the progress underway, we’re introducing a new regular feature in our coverage, The Climate Fix.
Each Thursday, as part of this newsletter, we’ll focus on at least one new solution that has the potential to make a meaningful difference.
Sometimes, this might be a new technology that is making our energy system more efficient. Other weeks, it could be a policy change that is reshaping how people think about allocating money to climate adaptation. We also plan to cover nature-based solutions, emissions reductions plans, scientific breakthroughs and legal developments.
There’s no shortage of material for us to write about. On every continent and in every conceivable industry, there are projects making our energy systems cleaner, our transportation systems more efficient and our agricultural systems more resilient. And our reporters are already in the field, tracking developments in geothermal energy, electric vehicles, rice farming, tree planting and much more. Just in the last few weeks, we’ve covered efforts to support nuclear energy, mine critical minerals and the impact of individual actions.
