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Twenty years ago, the film An Inconvenient Truth followed @climatereality founder and former US vice president @AlGore in his campaign to spread the word about climate change. That groundbreaking documentary helped usher climate science into the mainstream. Here, Al Gore shares some reflections on what has changed in the past 20 years - and why he believes that humanity will ultimately triumph over this challenge. Tap the link in our bio to hear more from Al Gore at the World Economic Forum.

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"Belgium gets less sunshine than Canada — and still installed more solar per square kilometre than Australia, the United States, or China.

The numbers do not make sense until you understand what is actually driving solar adoption.

Belgium has 170 overcast days per year. Its solar resource is half what Spain receives. On paper, it is not a solar country. In practice, it is one of the most solar-dense places on Earth — over 8 gigawatts installed on 30,000 square kilometres, a ratio that outperforms every large solar nation.

The reason is not sunshine. It is electricity prices. Belgian industrial and household electricity costs are among the highest in Europe. When electricity is expensive, capturing even mediocre sunshine becomes rational. The economics that require Saudi Arabian irradiance to justify solar in a low-electricity-cost market require only Belgian irradiance in a high-cost one.

Agrivoltaic w**e estates in the Hageland. Bifacial rooftop installations across Antwerp's industrial zone. Community cooperatives in Flanders where apartment residents pool capital to own solar they cannot install themselves. The Belgian solar industry is built not on natural advantage but on policy persistence and arithmetic that works even when the sky is grey.

Every country that says it has insufficient sunshine to justify solar should look at Belgium's output per square kilometre and then look at its electricity prices. One of those numbers usually explains the other.

Source: Belgian Photovoltaic Association (BelSolar) & Elia Group, 2023"

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NEWS: Sanders Statement on Federal Judge Restoring $7 Billion forSolar for All » Senator Bernie Sanders BURLINGTON, Vt., Sept. 19 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement after a federal judge ruled President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) illegally cancelled $7 billion in funding for the Solar for All program. I introduced the Solar for All program to pr...

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How Solar Panel Prices Fell 90 Percent In 15 Years | OilPrice.com Solar power outpaced every other energy source in 2025, driven by falling costs, early policy bets and a global push for energy security.

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California produced over half its May electricity from solar, a world record New batteries to store solar electricity and low demand in May both contributed to high percentage of electricity that came from solar.

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The United Nations Secretary-General stood in London today and delivered the most direct warning of his tenure — fossil fuels are simultaneously destroying the planet's climate and threatening every nation's energy security at the same time. Speaking at London Climate Action Week on June 23, 2026, as a deadly heatwave gripped Europe, UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued an urgent appeal for far more ambitious global action on climate change, directly linking the world's dependence on oil to both the accelerating climate crisis and a growing energy sovereignty emergency being felt across dozens of nations.

Guterres drew a direct line between fossil fuel dependence and two simultaneous crises: the worsening climate emergency driven by carbon emissions, and the energy security crisis linked to massive shipping disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz caused by the ongoing war involving Iran, Israel, and the United States. He argued these twin crises share a single origin — the global economy's continued reliance on oil and gas that must be transported across contested sea lanes controlled by geopolitical rivals. His message was stark: the pathway out of both crises simultaneously runs directly through renewable energy. In the same speech, Guterres called on artificial intelligence companies to come clean about the full environmental cost of their data centers, specifically naming carbon footprint, water consumption, and land use as impacts the industry has consistently obscured from public view.

The speech landed on the same day European cities recorded record temperatures and scientists confirmed the first half of 2026 as the hottest six months in recorded human history. The Secretary-General's message was unambiguous — the window for preventing irreversible damage is closing, and renewable energy is the only path to both planetary survival and genuine national energy independence.

Source: UN News, June 23, 2026

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America is building more new power plants in 2026 than it has in any single year in its entire history — and nearly every single one of them is clean. According to the US Energy Information Administration, the United States is set to add 86 gigawatts of new electricity generating capacity in 2026, more than the country has ever built in a single calendar year. Solar alone will provide 51 percent of that record new capacity. Batteries will deliver 28 percent. Wind will add another 14 percent. Natural gas, the fossil fuel most actively supported by the Trump administration, accounts for just 7 percent of new capacity. Coal, the other fossil fuel the White House has pledged to revive, does not appear anywhere in the list of power plants currently under construction.

The numbers reveal a disconnect between political rhetoric and economic reality that the energy industry has stopped trying to reconcile publicly. While the Trump administration has gutted decarbonization legislation, imposed tariffs on solar components, and directed federal funds toward coal, private capital is voting loudly in the opposite direction. Clean energy — driven overwhelmingly by pure economics rather than policy support — is consuming nearly all of a vastly expanded construction pipeline, while gas gets a scant sliver and coal gets nothing.

The United States built 33 gigawatts less in 2025, itself the biggest yearly power plant buildout since 2002. The 2026 figure makes that record look modest. Whatever political turbulence follows in the years ahead, America will face it with tens of gigawatts of brand-new solar panels, batteries, and wind turbines already generating electricity across the grid.

Source: Canary Media / US Energy Information Administration, 2026

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How Denmark’s wind and solar investments shield it from global energy turmoil The European Union’s climate commissioner has told the 27-country b...