The fossil fuel divestment movement continues to grow worldwide. Bill McKibben is a veteran of climate action and a leading voice for civil society movements to protect the planet. Ahead of COP23, DW asked him what we can do to avert catastrophe.

France is getting into offshore wind energy with the recent launch of a cutting-edge pilot project: one of the few floating wind turbines existing in the world. Studies suggest France is set to become Europe's second biggest wind energy producer, after Germany. Local and national authorities are helping to power that transition and slash nuclear power's overwhelming dominance in the energy mix.

People in a small village near Manchester in England believe climate change is too important to be left to politicians. 10 years ago the ordinary citizens of Ashton Hayes set about trying to make their own village carbon neutral. DW revisits the village to find out how the project is faring a decade on.

In 2016 Senegal became a solar energy producing country. It's part of the country's plan to cut its greenhouse gas emissions and to provide electricity to the bulk of the population which isn’t connected to the grid. But one women’s collective has beat the government to it: by bringing small solar lamps to isolated communities.

Mexico City is notorious for traffic congestion and high levels of smog and noise pollution. One effort to tackle this problem involves electric scooters. Econduce is a privately-run pioneer scooter sharing scheme. It was the first scheme of this sort in Latin America, and is one of a select few worldwide. Since its launch, it has grown quickly. But can it really help fix the city's problems?

Norway is the electric car capital of the world. Nearly 40 percent of all new cars sold in the Scandinavian country are now electric. And the country is not stopping there. The aim is to phase out fossil fuelled vehicles altogether by 2025. But can it be done? And how much does it matter if one of the world’s largest oil and gas producers get rid of petrol and diesel cars?

Paris is carving out a reputation for itself as the most anti-car city in the world. Its mayor has banned the most polluting private cars from the city, turned a riverside highway into a leisure zone, and begun an ambitious program of motor-traffic limitation.

Senegalese farmers have long used traditional techniques to read the weather and predict rainfall. Now, a new method has been developed: Sending science-based climate information by text message to help farmers boost yields.

One cow produces as much 600-800 liters of methane a day — a gas way more potent than carbon dioxide. India is the world's largest milk-producing country and the third biggest exporter of beef. Now, some Indian farmers are doing their part to get their cows to burp and fart less.

In Costa Rica, coffee production makes up nine percent of country's greenhouse gas emissions. Fertilizers, especially nitrogen-based fertilizers, release the most emissions. But now, farmers are learning more eco-friendly techniques with help from Germany's GIZ development agency. Transforming the coffee sector, they hope, will help Costa Rica reach its goal of becoming climate-neutral by 2021.