1. Electricity generation from coal power stations fell around 3 per cent this year, the largest drop on record, and 42 per cent of the world's coal fleet is now losing money.
2. New Zealand passed a bill to reach zero carbon by 2050, committed to planting a billion trees in the next decade, and said it would run its grid entirely from clean energy by 2035.
3. The world's second largest economy, the United States, generated more electricity from wind, sun and water in April than from coal for the first time.
4. Car makers finally put money on the table, collectively committing $225 billion for electric vehicles in the next five years in an electric offensive.
5. In March, the European Union announced that plastic cutlery, plates, straws, cotton buds, balloons, food containers and polystyrene cups would no longer be allowed by 2021. (Via Future Crunch)
