India, March 28 -- The world is at a precipice of sorts in terms of a response to the climate crisis. The US, under Donald Trump's second presidency, has walked out of the Climate Accord once again even as the planet officially breached the 1.5degC threshold of warming of pre-industrial temperatures for the first time in 2024. To be sure, the threshold has been defined for longer-term averages rather than just a year.

One of the biggest imperatives to mitigate global warming and its adverse effects is to change the world's energy basket from carbon emitting fossil fuels to renewables. The International Energy Agency's 2024 Review of Global Energy report gives a snapshot of the progress (or lack of it) on this front. Here are four charts ...