If you’ve been paying attention, there is a lot of very depressing information out there about climate change.
Partly this is because we face an existential threat, Partly this is because we’ve known about this for decades and done nothing and partly this is because the consequences of and evidence for climate change and partly this is because government leadership has been SOFT (denial, ignorance, actively sabotaging progress etc.)

So when there are good news stories, these can give us some (real) hope and keep us moving forward on climate.
I recommend following this fella. https://x.com/AssaadRazzouk @AssaadRazzouk

He wrote a book: Saving the Planet Without the Bull, https://linktr.ee/savingtheplanetbook…. Podcast: Angry Clean Energy Guy. Climate and CleanEnergy from the front lines . theangrycleanenergyguy.com

Every week he posts items that are good news. Here are a collection of the news items Assaad has posted publicly. Be encouraged.

Oct 20 2024 Good climate news this week
1 China spurring a major slowdown in oil demand growth, largely due to rapid adoption of EVs
2 US Supreme court allows EPA to limit power plant emissions
3 New York officials call for big oil to be prosecuted for fueling climate disasters
4 EV sales up by an annual 30.5% in September, with China surpassing its record August numbers
5 EU sticks to 2035 deadline for ban on sale of new petrol-driven cars
6 China’s electrification rate of railways hits 73.8%
7 Greece ups renewables goal to 82% by 2030
8 Germany moves to strengthen domestic wind power industry
9 Chinese firm in huge leap in offshore wind turbine size, 31% bigger than the previous record of 18MW
10 China’s coal consumption down 12.1% v. a decade ago

Oct 13 2024 Good climate news this week
1 Australia to protect 52% of its oceans
2 Global EV sales up 20% in August 2024
3 Mexico’s new president promises to resume fight against climate change
4 Ladakhi climate activist Sonam Wangchuk released by Delhi police
5 India’s coal-fired power output fell for a second straight month in September on an annual basis
6 Malaysia says it is set to transition away from coal power and there are no new coal plants in the pipeline
7 Multnomah County, Oregon added a gas utility as a defendant to its 2023 climate lawsuit on Monday, making NW Natural the first utility to be accused of deceiving the public about fossil fuels

Oct 6 2024 Good climate news this week

1 Fossil fuel dominance in India to end by 2030
2 China’s installed clean energy capacity passes 41% of total
3 Indonesia to develop 5GW of wind by 2030, up 10 times on current plan
4 UK sees record EV sales in September
5 Renewables reach new peak in Australia, delivering 73.9% of electricity nationwide
6 It’s been 114 days since 7 March with over 100% renewables for some of the day in California
7 OECD coal generation down 50% since 2007 peak
8 Just Stop Oil protesters aren’t stopping
9 Tuvalu minister labels Australia’s decision to expand 3 coalmines immoral
10 Cruise operator told to drop green claims by Dutch watchdog in greenwashing crackdown

Sept 30 2024 Good climate news this week
1 UK becomes 1st G7 country to completely phase out coal power
2 China forest coverage rate up to 24% of the country’s total land area from 8.6% in 1949
3 China installs 33.61GW of wind power in first 8 months of 2024, up 4.68GW year-on-year
4 93% of global GDP is now covered by net-zero targets
5 US awards $3b to US companies to boost domestic production of advanced batteries
6 Banks slash loans to UK North Sea oil groups
7 Norway’s Equinor and Shell cancel plans to supply Germany with hydrogen produced from natural gas
8 Greenpeace activists who scaled Sunak’s roof cleared by judge
9 CATL unveils battery with lifespan 1.5 million kilometers and 15 years
10 South Africa’s ad regulator finds Total Oil’s sustainability claims ‘misleading’ in a first of its kind ruling
11 China is accelerating its green transition further
12 California sues ExxonMobil for ‘deceiving the public’ about plastic recycling
13 Colombia Looks to Future Without Oil in $40 Billion Transition Plan
14 California enacts 3 bills limiting in-state production of oil and gas
15 Unveiled: lobbyists working for major North American oil and gas companies were key architects of anti-protest laws that increase penalties and could lead to non-violent environmental and climate activists being imprisoned up to 10 years

Sept 22 2024 Good climate news this week

1 China’s emissions set to fall in 2024 after record growth in clean energy
2 Court orders German government to implement immediate CO2 cuts measures across land-use sector
3 In China, world’s largest car market, EVs now 51% of all new cars sold
4 Ethiopia becomes 1st country to ban the import of petrol and diesel vehicles
5 Norway 1st country to have more EVs on its roads than petrol cars
6 Germany’s onshore wind auction sets record with nearly 3 GW in bids
7 Canada’s carbon emissions drop for 1st time since the pandemic, down 8% compared to 2005 baseline
8 Germany’s power grid battery capacity up by 29% so far in 2024
9 Running hours for gas-fired power plants in the UK at the lowest since at least 2017

Sept 15 2024 Good climate news this week
1 Global oil demand growth “slowing sharply” says IEA
2 Britain’s reliance on coal-fired power set to end after 140 years
3 Oil products demand in China peaked in 2023
4 California able to keep the lights on this summer during extreme heat waves in large part because of rapid battery deployment says state’s biggest utility
5 China plans to include steel, cement and aluminum in its carbon market from 2024
6 Asian Development Bank to devote 50% of its annual lending to climate finance
7 UK blocks approval of first coal mine in 30 years
8 Scotland’s only oil refinery to close next year
9 The Hague first city to ban fossil fuel ads by law
10 Tens of thousands in South Korea protest lack of climate progress
11 China’s top economic planner announces the country will “accelerate the construction of a new power system” 12 Big oil faces rapidly rising number of climate lawsuits

So I hope you found some of this encouraging.
There is lots of good news out there. It doesn’t erase the seriousness of the rest.. But it helps balance things out.
Be well.
Greg.