Climate crisis

The climate crisis demands action — and action is happening. This archive tracks real progress: policy wins, clean-energy milestones, community resilience, and scientific advances that show meaningful change is possible. Stories here come from every corner of the world.

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British wind power overtakes gas for the first time

By / / Good News For Humankind

Wind power just crossed a historic line in the U.K., supplying 32.4% of the country’s electricity in the first quarter of 2023 — narrowly beating gas at 31.7%. It’s the first time on record that wind farms have outpaced gas plants over a full quarter, and renewables together delivered nearly 42% of Britain’s power. Decades of offshore wind investment, falling turbine costs, and the urgency triggered by Europe’s 2022 energy shock all helped get the country here. The lead researcher called it a “genuine milestone,” and rightly so. For climate movements everywhere, it’s quiet proof that energy transitions, however slow and contested, really do arrive — and once the turbines are built, the wind keeps blowing for free.

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EVs to capture one-sixth of global market in 2023 amid record growth

By / / Good News For Humankind

Electric vehicles are on track to hit 14 million global sales in 2023, up from 10 million the year before — a jump that has analysts revising their forecasts upward yet again. The International Energy Agency now expects EVs to make up 35 percent of new car sales worldwide by 2030, a sharp leap from the 21 percent it predicted just one year earlier. The shift is showing up in unexpected places too: in India, more than half of all three-wheeled vehicles registered last year were electric, hinting at a faster, leapfrog path through the Global South. With oil demand now projected to peak as early as 2025, the economic logic of the transition is finally pointing the same direction as the climate logic.

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Global wind energy to surpass 1 terawatt milestone by end of 2023

By / / Good News For Humankind

Wind energy just hit a historic milestone: the world’s installed wind capacity has crossed one terawatt, equivalent to the combined output of roughly 500 large nuclear plants running at once. What took more than four decades to build is now expected to double within just eight years, according to Wood Mackenzie. Offshore wind is leading the surge, projected to grow sevenfold by 2032 and reach 30 countries, while emerging markets from Uzbekistan to North Africa are joining the boom. Behind the numbers are decades of engineers, policymakers, and workers steadily making turbines taller, cheaper, and more powerful. It’s a reminder that the clean energy transition, once dismissed as wishful thinking, is now a cornerstone of how the world keeps the lights on.