Green sky thinking needed to help combat climate change

Saving and restoring tropical forests offers one of the cheapest large-scale forms of emissions abatement or capture, writes Lorenzo Bernasconi.

In early October, shortly after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that his company could, given the opportunity, rebuild the island’s electrical grid using solar power.

Coming in the midst of so much human suffering, it was a bold claim. But from a technological perspective, the timing was perfect.