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Can the clean-energy revolution save us from climate catastrophe?

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Seven charts show the remarkable growth in renewable power and the challenges to ending the fossil-fuel age.

In China, sources of electricity that don’t involve fossil fuels — which includes solar, wind, hydropower, nuclear and biomass energy — have grown by 2.8 times over the past decade. That has been driven mainly by a tenfold expansion in wind and solar power. India has also seen a massive surge in green energy — although at a slower rate than China. “For the first time, China’s clean-energy growth, especially solar and wind, has been big enough to cover all of the growth in electricity demand and energy demand,” says Lauri Myllyvirta, lead analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and…

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