Climate Change
Doesn't Discriminate
Six countries. Three contrasts. One atmosphere.
Low-carbon power supplies 95% of its electricity. In Paris, bicycles now make more journeys than cars.
Coal still supplies around 71% of its electricity. In 2025, 140,000 hectares of natural forest disappeared.
More than 40% of mainland France crossed 40°C during its hottest June on record.
Cities crossed 46°C as hundreds of millions endured a heatwave made about three times more likely by climate change.
More than half its electricity now comes from renewables. Coal has fallen to just 1%.
Coal still supplies more than 60% of its electricity. In 2025, 300,000 hectares of natural forest were lost.
Wildfires burned around 380,000 hectares and forced more than 35,000 people to evacuate.
Floods killed 1,204 people and displaced around 625,000.
Renewables supply 68% of its electricity consumption. Coal power has disappeared entirely.
Coal still supplies more than 80% of its electricity, and power generation produces over 40% of the country's greenhouse-gas emissions.
Around 274,000 hectares burned. Four people never came home.
Floods killed 103 people and left 4,724 people without homes.
489,000 people die from heat each year.
6.4 million hectares of tree cover are lost to fire in an average year.
Around one million species are threatened with extinction.
$224 billion was lost to natural disasters in 2025.
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