The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the other planetary emergency coming to us via Brazil, the decimation of 500,000,000 bees through the use of pesticides illegal elsewhere; on how Costa Rica offers hope to the burning Amazon Rainforest; on using plastic waste to pay for bus fares in Indonesia and Ecuador; and on a huge health warning sign I wrote that should be slapped on the side of petrol- and diesel-powered buses everywhere in the world. Hero of the Week: Lilly (11), an international environmental champion. Villain of the Week: Japan's public finance institutions, for financing $17bn of coal power in India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Bangladesh - countries with some of the dirtiest air anywhere- that’s up to 40 times dirtier than coal Japan builds at home.

The Angry Clean Energy Guy is back on 13 September