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Once upon a time, I took my family on a Caribbean cruise that docked on the island of Dominica — 290 square miles of rugged mountainous terrain. We circled down and through its rainforest until reaching a splendid waterfall. It’s the only excursion I can recall from that summer trip nearly two decades ago.

With the dead of winter approaching, it is appropriate to reflect on last year’s Winter Storm Elliott, which occurred over Christmas and caused millions of people to lose power across the eastern United States. It followed Winter Storm Uri, which happened in Texas a year earlier.

The Republic of Paraguay is a global leader in food security, sitting above Argentina, west of Brazil, and south of Bolivia. With less than 0.1% of global CO2 emissions, the South American nation is also one of the world’s largest natural carbon sinks.

Gabon’s political landscape has been tumultuous, but its environmental policies will remain unchanged — if not more aggressive. In August, the military led a relatively nonviolent coup d’etat, deposing its president, whose family held power over the African nation for 56 years.

For 25 years, I’ve watched nuclear energy get knocked down and back up — revived mainly because of the need to decarbonize and hit net-zero targets. But this time, it appears that nuclear’s roots in the electricity and industrial sectors will firm up in the next decade and beyond.

When President Biden got elected, he promised to help reinvent coal country. And he is fulfilling his promises by facilitating the Appalachian Hydrogen Hub, which will create 21,000 jobs and attract $925 million in public investment. EQTEQT +0.8% Corporation, Battelle, and GTI Energy are the private partners participating in the hub, stretching from West Virginia to Ohio to Pennsylvania.

Mr. October is on deck. Marciano Dasai, Suriname’s minister of spatial planning and environment, spoke at Climate Week in New York and is pitching 4.8 million carbon offsets to the real heavy hitters — the rich nations responsible for most of the globe’s CO2 emissions.

Plug Power Inc. will produce liquid hydrogen this year in Georgia to fuel the transportation sector, making 15 tons per day and upgrading to 30 tons daily. It will source green energy from a local rural electric cooperative to do so.

Most enterprises run into the ‘Steel Curtain’ when they try to decarbonize steel. But Electra sees a way around the impenetrable fortress — a tribute to the 1970s all-star Pittsburgh Steeler defense. Moreover, it’s a move to revitalize American-made steel; Pittsburgh closed those mills in the 1980s, and 150,000 workers lost jobs.

President Reagan gave a televised address in March 1983 that proposed a space-based program that could shoot down nuclear missiles fired at the United States, otherwise known as “Star Wars.” While it was a pipe dream, the increased U.S. military spending did force the Soviet Union also to squander scarce resources. Finally, the two sides reconciled, and the Cold War ceased.