Timothy Gardner is a Energy & Environment Correspondent at Reuters.
There was a 25% rise in jobs making cleaner vehicles last year, while employment in solar energy rose by about 5% and wind power jobs climbed by about 3%.
The global coal plant capacities rose by nearly 1%, or 18.2 gigawatts last year as the world recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, and despite climate pledges.
Atmospheric rivers carry up to 15 times the volume of the Mississippi River, according to the NASA Earth Observatory and are causing flooding in Canada's British Columbia.
TerraPower LLC hopes to build small advanced nuclear power stations to store electricity to supplement grids currently supplied by solar and wind power.
A US study has suggested that in addition to affecting physical health, climate change can increase anxiety and depression.
