Here’s today’s stories of progress in the fight against climate change.

🎤 Pakistan’s female musicians sing their climate grief

In rural Pakistan, women are turning to music – from folk to rap – to mourn the devastation of climate change on their surrounding environment and villages. In areas where literacy is low, this is a powerful way of spreading awareness, with effects that ripple through communities.

🦗 Harnessing the food chain to keep pests at bay

Farmers don’t have to use pesticides to keep their crops healthy. By applying a sugar-based spray, they can attract predatory insects – like ladybirds and lacewings – that will swoop in to kill pests. This sustainable method is being used by smallholders in countries from Ethiopia to Vietnam, and in combination with other tactics like crop rotation, it could cut reliance on polluting pesticides worldwide.

🏭 Tech turns to green cement

Tech giants including Amazon and Microsoft have forged partnerships with low-carbon cement companies to drive down the climate impact of new data centres. Such projects could go a long way towards convincing the construction industry as a whole to make the switch, with potentially huge impacts, as cement production is responsible for as much as 8% of global emissions. These announcements fly in the face of US government cuts to funding for industrial decarbonisation initiatives.

The Green Light is written by freelance climate writer Molly Millar.