Sin embargo, estos avances contrastan con un sector que ha quedado claramente al margen: la industria carbonífera parece decidida a lucrar a expensas del medio ambiente planetario.
Universities, pension funds, churches, banks, and even the heirs to the Rockefeller oil fortune are pulling their money out of fossil-fuel assets or are considering the possibility of divestment – an option made increasingly attractive by the swiftly falling cost of renewable energy. In the face of this progress, though, one sector stands apart.