Tasmania is now carbon negative
Researchers concluded the change in carbon footprint could be attributed to the reduction in native forest logging.
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.
New seed-firing drones are planting 40,000 trees every day to fight deforestation
In comparison to traditional methodologies, they are not only 25 times faster, but 80 per cent cheaper, according to developer AirSeed Technologies.
Egypt to build world’s first climate-positive, net-zero city
The new city, Nexgen, to be located east of Cairo, will produce more food and energy than it consumes.
Washington state takes strongest clean commercial building action in the U.S.
Under the new code that will take effect in July 2023, new commercial buildings will be built with high-efficiency electric heat pumps for water and space heating.
‘Radical’ solar technology breakthrough allows energy to be stored for up to 18 years
Solar energy that lasts 18 years in a bottle? Researchers at Sweden’s Chalmers University have built a molecule that absorbs sunlight, holds it as a liquid, and releases it as electricity only when a catalyst says go. To prove it works, they charged the liquid with Swedish sun, shipped it to a partner lab in China, and three months later powered a tiny chip — just 800 nanometers thin — that turned the stored sunlight into electricity. Output is still small, but the concept is validated. If it scales, it points toward a future where clean energy isn’t tethered to grids or mining-heavy batteries, but travels quietly in a jar to wherever people need it.
Zurich begins to turn off natural gas networks
The current shutdown in Switzerland’s biggest city is due to be completed in 2024 with more areas of Zurich set to see the end of natural gas between now and 2040.
Denmark announces aggressive carbon tax
Companies that do not pay for their pollution in the EU quota system now must pay DKK 750 per ton of CO2 they emit.
Formerly warring factions in Burundi have now planted over 150 million trees together since 2018
In 2018, Burundi launched a vast national reforestation program to boost the country’s dwindling forest cover, which will run until 2025.
Quebec became the first jurisdiction in the world to explicitly ban oil and gas development in its territory
For two decades, citizens have mobilized against different oil and gas projects in Quebec, including shale gas in the St. Lawrence Valley and oil projects in Gaspésie.
Sweden becomes world’s first country to include emissions used to produce imported goals in its climate targets
Greta Thunberg has long argued that rich countries need to take responsibility for and reduce emissions from imported goods.