Change is already happening, and it won’t stop
17-09-2026 08:30 via energy-cities.eu

Change is already happening, and it won’t stop

What a summer! There is no need to list everything we have been through together over the past few months. The facts are not just statistics, maps and commentary. For many, they are traumatic experiences, and there is a dizzying sense that there will be no return to “normality.” “After decades of calling for change, being IN the transition is something else entirely”, my colleague Thomas Brose, director of Climate Alliance, pointed out to me. And that is indeed what we ar
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