Brown coal is the Datsun Sunny of electricity. It's time to upgrade or be overtaken | Richard di Natale

Businesses around the world are investing in low carbon technology. Political leaders can either seize the opportunity or get left behind

2016 is promising to be a happy new year. The remarkable achievement of 196 nations signing up to the successor of the Kyoto protocol means the first ever year with a global agreement to end the old ways of pumping heat-trapping carbon pollution into our atmosphere and oceans.

Now the hard and exciting work begins.