Remember before the coronavirus pandemic when working at home and doing most meetings online were low-carbon ideas and not much more? Times have changed - and now support for a greener future is coming from lots of interesting and sometimes unlikely directions.

In Britain, four in five members of a citizens' assembly - created to reflect the country's diversity in age, geography, race and other demographics - just said the UK's COVID-19 recovery push should be designed to help the country achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

In the United States, young Republicans have begun buying ads on Fox News urging their leaders to back clean energy to help the economy bounce back from the pandemic. Even your virus-era staple - takeaway food - is going green. Glovo, a city delivery service that operates in 22 countries, says it will offset all its carbon emissions by the end of next year.

Think expanding forests is the way to curb climate change? Now there's a platform that matches those who want to fund tree-planting with those who know how to do it.

India, meanwhile, is thinking about how it can make its crowded streets and markets friendlier to walkers and cyclists as a result of the virus. And backers of emerging off-grid clean energy businesses in Africa and Asia are figuring out how to keep them operating - and power flowing to where it's needed more than ever - despite funding disruptions caused by the pandemic.

That's not to say everyone's moving in the right direction on emissions. But signs of progress are there - and in Britain they're soon going to be more visible than ever.

Later this year the country will begin issuing new licence plates for electric vehicles with a green stripe down one side, to make it easier for their drivers to access incentives, from cheaper parking to exemptions from pollution charges.

One more sign of a green light for change?

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