June’s good news in numbers

500,000... electric car batteries will be made every year in the Tesla Gigafactory, which is currently being built in Nevada and will run entirely on renewable energy.

2016... The year Beijing has announced it will close the capital’s last coal-fired power station (switching to gas-fired power) in an effort to curb emissions and reduce pollution.

1000... electric vehicles planned for a car-sharing scheme in Montreal, which has a population of 1.6 million.

662kg... of confiscated elephant ivory being symbolically destroyed in China, which has outlawed the product.

$1.6 billion... the size of the investment fund for Syracuse University, which no longer invests money in the fossil fuel industry – along with 220 other institutions.