This chart shows that progress has actually been made on climate change

Global efforts to address climate change are — still — going far better today than they were a decade ago, even with recent politics pushing the problem to the back burner.

Why it matters: We humans usually operate on daily, monthly and yearly time frames. So it can be easy to miss the energy transition unfolding over decades and centuries.

Driving the news: The chart above compares two projections on greenhouse gas emissions from the International Energy Agency to one it did more than a decade ago. • The larger gap between the top line compared to the lower two shows the progress made on clean energy over the last decade.

What they're saying: "This progress is not part of the prevailing view of climate change, but it should be," philanthropist Bill Gates said in his recent controvers