CNN
This year has seen waves of bad news for the global fight to halt catastrophic climate change. Fossil fuel production is still increasing, driving up planet-warming pollution; the United States is in climate denial mode ; and turbulent geopolitics have pushed the climate crisis down the agenda and into the culture wars .
But there’s another, more hopeful, story unfolding simultaneously: the exponential rise of clean energy. Countries around the world are adding renewables at a blistering pace — and this surge is happening in some surprising places. Experts say it could herald the start of a new energy age, powered by the sun and wind.
In the first half of 2025, for the first time ever , renewables overtook coal as the top source of global electricity — a major milestone, according
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