WORLDWIDE: They say that it gets darkest just before dawn. I just hope that's true. As Gandhi allegedly said, "first they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win". We're definitely at stage three.
As we stand peering over the brink of the climate-change abyss, we are at the same time witnessing a renewable-energy revolution, with wind and solar becoming more and more competitive and emerging as the obvious choices for the power sector of the future. Now, "100% renewable" is no longer a pipe dream, with more than 60 countries announcing it as an explicit goal at the recent climate negotiations.