GOOD NEWS: Activists successfully pressured the Bank of England into no longer accepting bonds linked to the coal industry, and their new policy is stricter than most other financial institutions that have restrictions on doing business with the coal industry.

E-bikes, scooters, and mopeds are reducing more demand for oil than electric vehicles! Always wear a helmet and don’t forget to pressure your local government for protected bike lanes!

Liverpool is set to spend £30 million over the next few years to reduce stormwater runoff!

This headline from nearly 20 years ago is making its rounds on social media again, and some are using it to spread climate doom. If James were still alive today, he would be equally horrified at how bad climate change has gotten and how people are using that as an excuse to give up.

A new analysis has shown that New England's offshore wind farms prevented significant strain on the electric grid during the most recent heatwave, and that positive impact would've been much greater if the Trump administration would quit trying to stop construction at new offshore wind farms.

We could all use a bit of hope these days! Read more: goodclimatenews.substack.com/p/edition-47...

I 💚 both kinds of IPAs, but I wish the world had more of the Indigenous-led stewardship kind!

Let’s not hate on rural solar farms just because we need to be covering parking lots in solar panels too!

A bridge a little over an hour from me was recently named after Donald Trump, but it keeps getting “vandalized” with posters like this one.

The highlight of my week was attending a fundraiser for a nearby nature center where I got to watch this black bear go to town on frozen fruits and veggies.

Giving up quite literally isn’t an option.

Italy recently commissioned its largest solar farm to date. It's a 243 MW facility that was built on land impacted by desertification, and the property was restored with over 60,000 native plants aimed at preventing further desertification.

China began incentivizing the manufacturing and sale of low emission vehicles starting in 2008, and that low vehicle emission adoption is helping save an esimated 262,000 lives a year that would've otherwise died from air pollution caused by fossil fuel-burning vehicles.

Mangrove forests around the world were destroyed for decades, but after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, things quickly changed. Inspired by how mangroves protect coastlines from storms, the world ramped up conservation efforts to reverse mangrove forest destruction on a global scale by the 2010s.

Environmental campaigners recently convinced the Sri Lankan government to outright ban the purchase and use of single-use plastic water bottles at all government buildings and events in order to force public servants to practice what they preach in terms of addressing the plastic waste crisis.

A new study unveiled at the Our Ocean Conference in Kenya has mapped approximately 165,000 square kilometers (63,000 square miles) of climate resilient coral reefs around the world, and the majority of them can be found in Asia, Australia, and the Caribbean. Discover more good news in the replies:

I promise there’s still good news out there even in this extreme heat 🫡

Here’s a little evidence-based message of hope to get y’all through these heatwaves!

There’s a mushroom growing in the pond!

These mushrooms popped up overnight under my milkweed plants!

I am allegedly one year away from being able to drive two hours to the nearest passenger rail station, and once that service is restored, the next station to reopen will be just 30 minutes from my house!!!

After more than half a million people signed a petition opposing plans to build a data center right next to the Nashville Zoo, Mayor O'Connell announced they might use eminent domain to take the property so no data center can ever be built there. Let's hope the mayor follows through!

The bee balm I recently planted on the edge of the tiny wildlife pond I built last month just bloomed!

The Bleaching Event Early Predictor — or BEEP for short — is a new tool developed by researchers at Woods Hole to predict coral bleaching events months instead of weeks in advance. Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

It’s my first time growing bell peppers from seed, and the first pepper is forming!!

Climate change is absolutely causing #AMOC to weaken, but scientists aren’t convinced a collapse is imminent. So keep up your activism because that’s how we prevent a collapse of AMOC moving forward!

Decarbonizing things like industrial heating systems isn’t very sexy, but it’s still an important climate solution — even for whisky distilleries!

I tried filming this without the cat, but he kept meowing at me just out of frame 😂 Read more in the latest edition of Good Climate News: goodclimatenews.substack.com

GOOD NEWS: Solar generated more electricity than coal for the first time ever in the United States last month! Solar generated 12.8% in May while coal generated 12.2%.

ICYMI: Clean energy projects have helped the United Kingdom save £1.7 billion and counting in fossil fuel imports since the beginning of the war with Iran.