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🌱💡The climate movement has won before
Today's good climate and environment news
Happy Friday!
Here are today’s stories of progress in the fight against the climate crisis and nature loss.
🐋 Hope in the climate fight
Feeling like stopping climate change is a losing battle? Here, climate scientist Kate Marvel explains why the outlook is far from hopeless. The environmental movement has won many fights before, from banning whaling and leaded fuel, to passing the US’s Clean Air Act and shrinking the hole in the ozone.
The world veered from an apocalyptic scenario to whatever strange story we now find ourselves writing. And this time, we know the planet can be saved from unspeakable horror. We’ve done it before
African leaders have come together ahead of COP to present a unified, visionary roadmap centred on climate justice for the continent. The coalition is calling for tens of billions of dollars of investment, and set a bold target of 300 gigawatts of clean energy by 2030. The summit also cemented the coalition’s commitment to using Africa’s mineral reserves in service of the clean energy transition.
You can think of these as homegrown solutions to a climate problem that was largely caused by the rest of the world
Bio-oil from crop waste, like corn husks and wood chips, could be used to plug old oil wells, stopping them from belching out huge amounts of methane, a new study has found. In a double whammy, the practice could also store carbon, as the process of making bio-oil allows the carbon from organic waste to be stored rather than released into the atmosphere.
📝 The Green Light is written by freelance writer Molly Millar.