Weekly Climate Solutions Digest

Welcome

In the north, the morning light rests on frost like sugar on cedar needles. Far south, cicadas stitch a warm hum through eucalyptus shade. Nature holds its own quiet poise, and that balance is our theme this week.

So many of these stories are about keeping what matters and storing what we can. Saudi Arabia completes the world’s largest grid battery to steady supply and welcome more wind and sun, while Egypt’s hybrid solar and storage moves to calm the Aswan grid. Washington’s carbon market sets money flowing into transit and local upgrades. Communities in the DRC secure a million hectares for wildlife to move, and neighbors in Peru’s high Andes tend hillsides back to health. Builders in Kenya press earth into cooler, cleaner walls. Quebec sinks CO2 for good, as companies commit to durable removal.

Taken together, it reads like a quiet promise. Reliability, rooted in place. Human hands learning from the way a winter sun lingers and a summer chorus keeps time. Here are the week’s standouts that turn that promise into practice.

Top Climate Solutions Of The Week

• Saudi Arabia has completed the world’s largest grid battery, with the project delivering large-scale storage to stabilize the power system and integrate more renewables.
• Amea Power has begun building a 1 GW solar plant with 600 MWh of storage in Egypt, helping the Aswan grid deliver steadier clean power.
• Washington state’s cap and invest program has generated billions for climate, transit, and air quality projects, turning polluter payments into local benefits.
• In the DRC, communities are using community forest concessions to create a 1 million hectare biodiversity corridor, protecting habitat while supporting livelihoods.
• In Peru’s high Andes, a long-term effort shows community-led forest restoration can succeed, improving water security and storing carbon.
• Builders in Kenya’s drylands are adopting compressed earth blocks that keep homes cooler while cutting emissions and costs, reducing reliance on cement and air conditioning.
• CDR market momentum continued as Quebec logged its first permanent CO2 injection, marking a step from pilots to real deployment.
• New durable carbon removal purchase agreements are scaling, giving developers bankable demand to build and lower costs over time.

Progress on grids, corridors, forests, homes, and carbon removal is about steadiness, not spectacle. The same is true for how we care for ourselves while we work for change.

If you are struggling...

If the world has you feeling tired, angry, anxious, hopeless, or frustrated, you are not alone. Exhaustion usually means you have been carrying something that matters. Anger can be a compass that points to what needs repair. Anxiety is your nervous system trying to protect you. Even despair can be a sign that you have loved something enough to grieve it.

You do not need to become a different person to meet this moment. Start small. Ask what care looks like today. Name what is clear. Get curious about one next step. Take a brave, doable action. Many leaders grow by practicing care, clarity, curiosity, and courage, and so can you.

If you feel scattered, let that be information too. You contain more than one voice. You can learn to hold them with steadiness, to be the sky that holds every weather. Let the calm part and the stormy part both have a seat, then choose what serves.

Attention is a form of energy. Without ignoring pain, give some of your gaze to what is alive and possible. Like a plant at a window, we lean toward what we face. Choose where to face. Remember that where attention goes, energy flows.

Drink water. Text one friend. Step outside. Fix one small thing. Rest. Tomorrow, begin again.

For people and planet,
Bri Chapman
brichapman.com