Welcome to my Good News Climate Blog, where I’ll be sharing stories I hear about innovation and progress that give me hope. Among all the doom and gloom of federal rollbacks and increasingly bad impacts from wildfires and storms, I think we all need to celebrate the wins – stories about scientists and entrepreneurs who are inventing the solutions we need and proving them in the marketplace and stories about progress being made in our local cities and around the world by real people who are getting the real work done. I look forward to using this space to highlight progress, celebrate innovation, and share with you some of the wins happening in Sacramento, too. I hope this good news will strengthen your resolve, as it does mine, to continue the work of saving our planet for future generations.
Coming out of COP30 in Belém and the UN Local Leaders Forum in Rio, I was overwhelmed with one feeling that was at great variance with the feeling of the day: there is LOTS of good climate news!! Country, state, regional, city—good news abounds!!