Abrupt and much sooner than expected - that's how the disruption of biodiversity from climate change on land and in the oceans will be, according to the scientific journal Nature. Find out more on the University of Capetown's website.

The US -state of Hawaii has committed to generating 100 % of its power using renewable energy by the year 2045, demonstrating to other US states and island communities across the world that sustainable energy can be a reality. Read on at UN News.

In at least two-thirds of the world’s population, solar and onshore wind power have become the cheapest new sources of electricity. According to BloombergNEF, the levelized cost of electricity for onshore wind projects has fallen 9% to $44 a megawatt-hour since the second half of last year. Solar declined 4% to $50 a megawatt-hour. Read on here.

On the Spanish website Energías renovables, Pep Puig, chairman auf the Catalan and Spanish section of EUROSOLAR, points out:

The health emergency of the coronavirus clearly shows us that the continuation of the path of the 20th century leads us into the abyss. At the same time, it offers us the opportunity to rethink our society and rebuild it on the basis of a new worldview that sees the Earth as a planet where life means respecting certain boundaries. And one of these is the solar constant, because although our planet is a closed system in terms of materials, it is an open system in terms of energy, where life is based on the use of solar energy.