Solar, EVs and a Big Exit From Coal: 2024’s Good Climate News
Record solar installations, Norway’s electric vehicle revolution and a G7 member’s coal phase-out are just some of the good news stories for the planet this year.
Solar panels during installation on the roof of King's College Chapel.
Photographer: Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg
After months of depressing news about countries backsliding on climate pledges and companies softening green ambitions, it’d be easy to forget this year also saw impressive developments in the fight against global warming.
Solar installations popped up in unexpected places. Cities experimented with wild adaptation projects. Elderly Swiss women even won a major climate case in a European court. Bloomberg Green covered these events and more. Here’s a round-up of the good news from 2024.