u/Economy-Fee5830

The recent severe weather in Europe and USA has led to a flood of people seeking reassurance around our efforts to mitigate climate change. Most of those posts have been removed, and from now on will be directed to this weekly thread.

Climate change is a severe, compounding issue, but only if we do not address it - with concerted efforts, it can be managed, and the biggest lie I constantly read here is that nothing is being done - we are in fact spending trillions of dollars each year on mitigating climate change via paying for the energy transition. We even spend $100 billion each year on carbon credits.

Our efforts over the years have resulted in the worst-case RCP 8.5 high emission scenario being retired - it is now no longer considered plausible that we will hit +4C by 2100 - the main projection for our current policies is around + 2.4 to 2.6 and we can expect this to further reduce in the future.

Our energy transition has advanced quite a lot - global renewable capacity additions reached a record 692 GW in 2025, pushing renewables to 49% of global installed power capacity, renewables are expected to overtake coal as the world's largest source of electricity generation either by the end of 2025 or by mid-2026. Since 2010, renewable deployment has cut coal imports by 700 million tonnes and natural gas imports by 400 billion cubic metres in import-dependent countries, saving an estimated $1.3 trillion. China alone added more capacity than any other country, reaching 2,258,016 MW cumulative, a 24.2% increase, and is on track to hit its 2035 wind and solar target five years early.

We have seen emissions growth slow to around 1% per year, and are likely to peak soon.

None of this means we can relax - it means our investment is working, and we are actively changing our future.

Please contribute any other climate good news in the thread below - it will be heavily and actively moderated - note Rule 5 and Rule 6.