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Oil is a major source of revenue in Colombia, but the country's new president has promised 'a green, not a black future' (Credit: J Torres/ Getty Images)
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The country giving up oil extraction

By María Paula Rubiano A.

Western Australia's Greenbushes mine originally extracted tin, but now it is the world's largest lithium mine (Credit: Alamy)
Towards Net Zero

The source of half the world's lithium

By Royce Kurmelovs
Oil has been a source of great wealth and pride in Russia (Credit: Getty Images)
Towards Net Zero

Will Russia ever leave oil behind?

By Angelina Davydova
Morocco is home to the world's largest concentrated solar array (Credit: Getty Images)
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How Morocco went big on solar energy

By Aida Alami
How SUVs came to rule the world -and why that's a climate problem
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A large proportion of the developing world lack access to clean cooking methods (Credit: Getty Images)
Towards Net Zero

Why wood stoves have had their day

By Justice Nwafor
Workers in the coal-dependent eastern Indian state of Jharkhand are among those who would need to retrain if the areas coal mines closed down (Credit: Getty Images)
Towards Net Zero

India's plan for life after coal

By Akshay Deshmane
Brazil is home to much of the Amazon Rainforest, which has been illegally encroached upon for decades (Credit: Getty Images)
Towards Net Zero

How Brazil can end deforestation

By Ana Ionova
China has said it will end its involvement in overseas coal funding – what does that mean for the rest of the world? (Credit: Getty Images)
Towards Net Zero

How China shapes the world's coal

By Catherine Early
The conversion of vast tranches of primary forest to oil palm plantations harms nature, and it also contributes significantly to climate change (Credit: Reuters)
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Why palm oil is a climate problem

By Nithin Coca
The Netherlands is closing its largest gas field, and seeking new methods to heat homes instead (Credit: Getty Images)
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How the Dutch are ditching natural gas

By Laura Cole
The transport sector makes up the largest share of the US's carbon emissions, with cars the primary source of CO2 (Credit: Getty Images)
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America's greatest source of emissions

By Ula Chrobak
Dairy cattle farm in Vetschau Germany (Getty Images)
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New Zealand's race to reduce cow burps

By Ellen Rykers
A row of red electric buses line up in a depot
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How China's buses influenced the world's EVs

By Xiaoying You
Cody Two Bears founded Indigenized Energy, a native-led energy company installing solar farms for tribal nations in the US (Credit: Indigenized Energy)
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Native Americans are reclaiming energy

By Lucy Sherriff

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