The clean economy story is expanding from rich countries to everywhere.
Phase 2 of the energy transition is here — renewables are taking off across the developing world. And it’s going much faster than people realize.
A sampling of recent stories
– China: emissions falling in 2025
– Pakistan “pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions in the world” (see exponential growth chart)
– Africa: record solar imports in 20 countries
– Poland: For electricity, renewables roughly matching coal (down from 80+% to 40%+ in a decade)
– India: (per earlier post), coal declining as solar “booms”
The first major wave of clean energy has been displacing fossils in electricity in richer (OECD) countries (+ China). The next wave is global and it’s here.
[Caveats: We have a long way to go. Climate change is here and on track to be massively more damaging. The clean tech transition has to go even faster.]
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