Climate & Energy
Clean energy scaling, emissions bending, and the systems that power the world getting cleaner.
Solar supplied a quarter of the EU's electricity in June
For the first time in a single month, solar generated 25 percent of the European Union's electricity, more than any other source.
China's CO2 emissions dipped in 2025 as clean power kept expanding
China's carbon emissions dipped about 0.3% in 2025, extending a 21-month run of flat or falling emissions that, for the first time on record, is not tied to an economic slowdown.
Coal fell below half of China's electricity for the first time
Coal supplied 49.7 percent of China's electricity from January to June 2026, the first half year below half in the world's largest power system, with renewables at about 40 percent.
Electric cars reached one in four new cars sold worldwide
Global electric car sales rose about 20% to more than 20 million in 2025, roughly a quarter of all new cars sold.
The ozone layer keeps healing, and 2025's hole was among the smallest in decades
The 2025 Antarctic ozone hole was the fifth smallest since 1992, confirming a recovery driven by a 1987 agreement.
For the first time in a century, renewables out-generated coal
In 2025 the world crossed a line that had held since the age of steam: cleaner sources produced more of our electricity than coal did.
