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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Kenya is producing its first electric buses

By / January 25, 2023 / Good News For Humankind

Electric buses are now being assembled in Kenya for the first time, marking a genuine shift in how East Africa thinks about clean public transit. A Nairobi startup called BasiGo partnered with a veteran Mombasa assembler to build 1,000 electric buses over three years — creating over 600 jobs in manufacturing, maintenance, and charging. What makes this especially promising is BasiGo’s pay-per-kilometer financing model, which makes electric buses as affordable upfront as diesel for everyday operators. Kenya’s already-clean electricity grid means these buses will run on genuinely green power. It’s a hopeful template other African cities could follow.

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Staggering 79% of new cars sold in Norway in 2022 were electric

By Peter Schulte / January 13, 2023 / Good news links

There are now more than 600,000 EVs in Norway. In 2017, the country pledged to end the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2025. The government also has exempted new EVs from purchase tax and sales tax.

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Kenya Electricity Generating Company to install 3000 MW of additional renewables over the next 10 years

By Peter Schulte / January 11, 2023 / Good news links

The move will see Kenya’s installed generation capacity doubling to 6,000 MW and strongly contribute to the county’s target of generating electricity from 100% renewables by 2030.

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Ireland to install a massive 7 GW of offshore wind power by 2030

By Peter Schulte / January 9, 2023 / Good news links

Seven new projects, amounting to 2.5GW, will enter the Irish planning system and are expected to take part in ORESS 1, the first round of offshore wind auctions set to take place in 2023

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Slovakia’s last coal mines to close in 2023

By Peter Schulte / January 9, 2023 / Good news links

Lignite mining in the Slovak Upper Nitra region is coming to an end as the last two coal mines will close by the end of 2023 following the government’s plans to stop subsidies for domestic mining.

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Brazil’s President Lula issues six decrees revoking or altering predecessor’s anti-environment-and-Indigenous measures

By Peter Schulte / January 5, 2023 / Good news links

One of the decrees annuls mining in Indigenous lands and protected areas, another resumes plans to combat deforestation in the Amazon and Cerrado biomes, and a third reinstates the Amazon Fund.

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World’s first university dedicated entirely to climate change opens in Wales

By Peter Schulte / January 3, 2023 / Good news links

Black Mountains College in Wales is currently recruiting students for its BA in Sustainable Futures due to launch in September 2023.

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U.S. Postal Service to only buy EVs by 2026

By Peter Schulte / January 3, 2023 / Good news links

With $3 billion in funds from the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, USPS plans to spend around $9.6 billion in upgrading its fleet and building charging stations, starting immediately with a purchase of 66,000 EVs.

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France bans short-haul domestic flights to curb carbon emissions

By Peter Schulte / December 22, 2022 / Good news links

The European Commission has approved the move which will abolish flights between cities that are linked by a train journey of less than 2.5 hours.

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Denmark reverses the direction of an oil rig for bulk carbon storage

By Peter Schulte / December 21, 2022 / Good news links

Denmark is moving forward with an initiative that will take huge quantities of captured carbon out to an oil rig in the North Sea, and pump it down to sequester it in the sandstone formations that once held oil and gas.