Climate change does not lend itself to good news stories. But as the writer and activist Bill McKibben said in a recent interview, energy from the sun represents a fresh chance for civilisation to break from big oil. China is undoubtedly the world leader in solar generation, having installed a whopping 357GW (357,000MW) of solar PV in 2024. But while China leads in volume, Pakistan is one of the world’s fastest-growing markets for rooftop, distributed solar power.
This is no mean feat for a developing nation of 257 million people that is one of the top 10 most vulnerable nations to climate change. Since 2022, after suffering a large flooding event driven by the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in its history, Pakistan has seen an extraordinary citizen-led transformation of its energy system.
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