Weekly Climate Solutions Digest
Welcome
November settles in and the light turns precise. It feels like the world is quietly organizing itself.
Two threads run together in this week’s stories: scale and precision. Gigawatts move from headline to hardware, as Germany advances a grid-scale battery in Jänschwalde and Uzbekistan lines up solar across Samarkand. On the streets, BasiGo opens fast charging hubs for Nairobi’s e-buses, while Brazilian cities get the support they need to turn plans into projects. Along the coast, a new facility aims to channel billions into living infrastructure with the Mangrove Breakthrough.
And the tools get sharper. Climate TRACE brings facility-level mapping that shows where solutions fit. A drone and AI building MRI promises faster retrofits, building by building.
The season reminds us that big migrations are made of small, exact wingbeats. So is the energy transition, steady, patterned, and underway. Here is what that looks like this week.
Top Climate Solutions Of The Week
- Uzbekistan is adding 1.2 GW of utility-scale solar in the Samarkand region, with procurement and delivery outlined in these project announcements to expand clean power and cut gas use.
- LEAG and Fluence advanced the 1 GW Jänschwalde GigaBattery toward construction, using grid-scale storage to replace coal capacity and improve stability per this project update.
- The Mangrove Breakthrough launched a financing facility to mobilize 4 billion dollars for protection and restoration, channeling capital to nation-led projects through a new program framework targeting large-scale impact by 2030.
- C40 Cities and the Global Covenant of Mayors launched a Mutirão effort to help Brazilian municipalities structure bankable projects and unlock finance via a national support program.
- BasiGo opened three fast charging hubs in Nairobi capable of charging 100 electric buses per day, enabling larger zero-emission bus fleets through new depot infrastructure.
- Climate TRACE launched a facility-level mapper that pairs major emissions sources with tailored abatement options, giving operators and policymakers actionable mitigation pathways.
- A drone-and-AI building MRI system is being deployed to rapidly detect heat loss and structural risks, cutting audit time and speeding upgrades as shown in pilot deployments.
Taken together, these moves show how big systems change through concrete steps. Gigawatts connect to the grid. Bus routes get cleaner. Finance finds living shorelines. Data guides precision fixes at the level of a single facility or building.
If you are struggling...
If you feel tired, angry, anxious, or stuck, there is nothing wrong with you. It makes sense to feel this way.
When everything seems to be tipping, it can help to remember a different picture of action: defenders holding the line, moving slowly, protecting what is tender. That image lives inside what is emerging and what is in the way. You do not have to push the world uphill alone. You can keep a small circle from sliding.
We are not waiting for the perfect fix. Change arrives in pieces. Think Silver Buckshot: many small efforts aimed in the same direction. Text a neighbor. Cook for a friend. Join a local meeting. Donate what you can. Vote. Plant something. Learn a name. Rest so you can return. No one act is enough, and that is okay.
Finally, try Holding Both. You can care deeply and still pause. You can be heartbroken and still notice joy. You can set a boundary and stay committed. Let more than one truth be true at once.
Drink water. Put your feet on the ground. Choose one next right thing today. Then another, when you are ready. You are not alone.
For people and planet,
Bri Chapman
brichapman.com