Recent Carbon Brief articles by Carbon Brief Staff
- Guest post: Solar plus batteries ‘cheaper than new coal’ for meeting China’s rising demand
- Cropped 8 May 2024: Food price spike; Infectious diseases; Indian ocean heatwave
- Chart: How British electricity supplies are shifting decisively away from fossil fuels
- Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief
- COP16: Tracking country pledges on tackling biodiversity loss
- Guest post: Ice-age analysis suggests worst-case global warming is less likely
- Cropped 24 April 2024: Mass coral bleaching; FAO report retraction request; Escazú Agreement
- Guest post: How shifting diets away from beef could cut Brazil’s emissions
- Analysis: Fossil fuels fall to record-low 2.4% of British electricity
- Cropped 10 April 2024: ‘Ghost roads’ deforestation; Record wildfires; Southern Africa drought
- Guest post: How climate change could reverse progress in global inequality
- Cropped 27 March 2024: Bankrolling meat and dairy; EU nature restoration pushback; Missing cherry blossoms
- Guest post: Mapping where tree-planting has the greatest climate benefit
- Factcheck: 18 misleading myths about heat pumps
- Guest post: Climate adaptation becomes less effective as the world warms
- Cropped 13 March 2024: Drought hits food supplies; ‘Mass bleaching’ of coral reefs; Industrialising African ag
- Analysis: UK emissions in 2023 fell to lowest level since 1879
- China Briefing 7 March: ‘Two sessions’ readout; BYD’s EV megaships; Power upgrade
- UK spring budget 2024: Key climate and energy announcements
- Analysis: Trump election win could add 4bn tonnes to US emissions by 2030
- Guest post: The challenge of consensus decision-making in UN climate negotiations
- Cropped 28 February 2024: Chocolate crisis; Tree-planting scrutinised; EU restoration law
- Q&A: What does the EU ‘nature restoration’ law mean for climate and biodiversity?
- China Briefing 22 February: Interview with Chinese govt climate advisor; Missing emissions targets; The cost of excluding China
- No ‘statistically significant’ link between climate change and Chile’s wildfires
- Cropped 14 February 2024: Nature fund gets real; Migratory species in peril; EU rolls back regulations
- The Carbon Brief Profile: Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Vacancy: Team Coordinator
- China Briefing 8 February: Xi’s ‘green’ call; Renewables to top coal; No new EU solar support
- Q&A: European Commission calls for 90% cut in EU emissions by 2040
- Guest post: Heavy use of CO2 removal would trigger high sustainability risks
- Cropped 31 January 2024: French farmers and the far right; Amazon affairs; EU offsetting ban
- Q&A: What progress has been made on protecting nature a year on from COP15?
- Q&A: What does Biden’s LNG ‘pause’ mean for global emissions?
- Guest post: Why 2023 was an exceptional year for Antarctic sea ice
- China Briefing 25 January: Clean energy drives growth; ‘Beautiful China’ instructions; Interview with EFC’s Prof Zou Ji
- IPCC: Governments split on ‘accelerated’ climate reports for next UN global stocktake
- Cropped 17 January 2024: Norway’s deep-sea disquiet; Panama drought; New species discovered
- Met Office: A review of the UK’s climate in 2023
- China Briefing 11 January: Expectations for 2024; Top climate negotiator interviewed; NDRC promotes ‘green’ industry
- Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2023
- Analysis: Record opposition to climate action by UK’s right-leaning newspapers in 2023
- DeBriefed 5 January 2024: US offshore wind; UK’s second warmest year; Carbon Brief’s top articles of 2023
- Analysis: UK electricity from fossil fuels drops to lowest level since 1957
- DeBriefed 21 December 2023: Major oil auction in US; EU missing targets; Climate change threatens nature’s ‘unique values’
- Cropped 20 December 2023: COP28 special edition
- Guest post: Why ‘jet-streak’ winds will get faster as the climate warms
- Webinar: Carbon Brief journalists discuss COP28’s key outcomes
- COP28 DeBriefed 15 December 2023: Carbon Brief’s key takeaways; Food, forests and nature; Free webinar today
- COP28: Key outcomes for food, forests, land and nature at the UN climate talks in Dubai
- China Briefing 14 December: COP28 special edition
- COP28: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Dubai
- Guest post: What would an ambitious ‘global goal on adaptation’ look like at COP28?
- Guest post: Why some ‘developing’ countries are already among largest climate-finance contributors
- COP28 DeBriefed 8 December 2023: The fight over fossil fuels; Al Jaber defends ‘respect’ for science; Has COP ever finished on time?
- Interactive: The pathways to meeting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit
- Cropped 6 December 2023: COP28 greenwashing; Nature finance; Food pledge
- Q&A: Why defining the ‘phaseout’ of ‘unabated’ fossil fuels is so important at COP28
- Analysis: Growth of Chinese fossil CO2 emissions drives new global record in 2023
- COP28 DeBriefed 1 December 2023: Countries strike loss and damage deal; Oil influence; Key issues to watch
- Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at COP28 climate summit
- China Briefing 30 November: China at COP28; Xi’s ‘unwavering’ climate commitment; Voluntary carbon market restart
- The Carbon Brief Profile: China
- Revealed: Colonial rule nearly doubles UK’s historical contribution to climate change
- Revealed: How colonial rule radically shifts historical responsibility for climate change
- DeBriefed 24 November 2023: Fossil fuels under fire on eve of COP28; Record heat from Brazil to South Africa; IEA’s ‘moment of truth’ for oil and gas
- Autumn statement 2023: Key climate and energy announcements
- Guest post: Why resolving how land emissions are counted is critical for tracking climate progress
- Cropped 22 November 2023: COP28 curtain-raiser; Food security fear; Dust, bugs and ice
- Q&A: Why deals at COP28 to ‘triple renewables’ and ‘double efficiency’ are crucial for 1.5C
- Interactive: Who wants what at the COP28 climate change summit
- Q&A: What is the ‘global stocktake’ and could it accelerate climate action?
- Q&A: Warming of 2C would trigger ‘catastrophic’ loss of world’s ice, new report says
- China Briefing 16 November: Sunnylands statement; China methane plan; Coal capacity payments
- Cropped 8 November 2023: ‘Hidden costs’ of food; Gas auction controversy; Looking towards COP28
- Q&A: The fight over the ‘loss-and-damage fund’ for climate change
- Guest post: How 120 of the world’s major cities could cut transport CO2 by 22%
- China Briefing 2 November: Fossil fuel peak in 2024; Graphite curbs; Xie to ‘retire’
- Guest post: Three major gaps in climate-adaptation finance for developing countries
- Q&A: What the ‘underwhelming’ Three Basins Summit means for tropical forests
- How to follow Carbon Brief’s WhatsApp channel
- Vacancy: Multimedia producer
- Analysis: Global CO2 emissions could peak as soon as 2023, IEA data reveals
- Guest post: Why all fossil fuels must decline rapidly to stay below 1.5C
- Cropped 25 October 2023: Agri-disasters costing trillions; Bankrolling deforestation; COP15 official finale
- Guest post: Fixing the gaps in England’s ‘biodiversity net-gain’ policy
- China Briefing 19 October: BRI funding; coal job losses; extreme weather damage
- Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2023
- Cropped 11 October 2023: Amazon dolphin deaths; EU agri round-up; ‘Exploitative’ carbon offsets
- Kew report: Five key extinction risks facing the world’s plants and fungi
- China Briefing 5 October: EV investigation; Forest rules; BRI and climate
- Guest post: How heat pumps became a Nordic success story
- Webinar: How can carbon offsets be reformed?
- Analysis: How some of the world’s largest companies rely on carbon offsets to ‘reach net-zero’
- Cropped 27 September 2023: UN’s ‘climate ambition’ summit; Carbon offsets series; Brazil Indigenous victory
- In-depth Q&A: What are ‘biodiversity offsets’?
- Mapped: The impacts of carbon-offset projects around the world
- Infographic: How are carbon offsets supposed to work?
- Timeline: The 60-year history of carbon offsets
- Glossary: Carbon Brief’s guide to the terminology of carbon offsets