Energy transition schemes: a potential alternative to fossil fuel divestment

A spate of environmental activism in the run-up to the COP27 climate summit has seen soup, mashed potatoes, maple syrup, and oil splattered over artworks in galleries around the world. The protests, whose professed aim is to put an end to the use of fossil fuels, have garnered much public attention — and the jury is still out on their impact. Meanwhile, a much less splashy event in the battle against carbon emissions took place in the Philippines, when a coal-fired power plant 90 …