Wind turbines, solar farms, geothermal power plants — the green transition is happening all over the world, and the Global South is currently taking the lead in renewable energies.

BRICS countries such as China and Brazil are leaders in solar energy production. Kenya gets 90% of its energy from renewable sources, primarily geothermal. But there is also a downside.

No country builds more solar power plants than China. At the same time, China is the world's largest emitter of CO2. Brazil is drilling for oil in the Amazon estuary, even though almost all of the country's electricity comes from renewable sources.