Solar power capacity has tripled globally in the last five years – and there’s more to come. How did we get here? And how can we make sure everyone gets to benefit?

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We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. We’ll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Credits:
Reporter: Kira Schacht
Video Editor: Frederik Willmann
Supervising Editor: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Fact Check: Kirsten Funck
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon

Read More:
International Energy Agency: Renewable Energy Progress Tracker:
https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/renewable-energy-progress-tracker

Global Solar Atlas:
https://globalsolaratlas.info/

Overview of Mission 300:
https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/energizing-africa/overview

DW Analysis on solar power subsidies in Europe:
https://www.dw.com/en/how-europe-is-paying-for-its-solar-boom/a-71640144

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:58 The solar boom
02:14 The equality issue
03:42 Large-scale solar power
05:55 Solar on your rooftop
08:28 Off-grid energy
10:09 Outro