The latest 100 articles from Carbon Brief
April 2025
March 2025
- Guest post: Saudi Arabia’s surprisingly large imports of solar panels from China
- DeBriefed 28 March 2025: South Korea’s record-breaking wildfires; Arctic sea ice hits record-low peak; Butterfly biodiversity imperilled
- Arctic sea ice winter peak in 2025 is smallest in 47-year record
- Global soil moisture in ‘permanent’ decline due to climate change
- Glossary: Decoding how China talks about energy and climate change
- Experts: What do Trump’s tariffs mean for global climate action?
- Cropped 26 March 2025: US birds in peril; UK ecologists ‘job fears’; Finance ‘fuelling’ deforestation
- Guest post: How human behaviour shapes effective climate policies
- DeBriefed 21 March 2025: Germany’s climate win; Conservatives’ net-zero row-back; Key messages from major UK climate conference
- Glacier melt threatens water supplies for two billion people, UN warns
- China Briefing 20 March 2025: Miliband in China; ‘Two new’ promoted; ‘Two sessions’ ended
- Q&A: How China’s ‘two new’ policy aims to help cut emissions
- ‘One-third’ of 2012 soya crop failure in the Americas was due to climate change
- Guest post: Why action on extreme heat in Indian cities is falling short
- Factcheck: Why Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is wrong about UK’s net-zero goal
- Guest post: China will need 10,000GW of wind and solar by 2060
- DeBriefed 14 March 2025: US’s ‘moral case for fossil fuels’; Rainforest felled for ‘COP30 road’; Myanmar’s energy crisis
- Explainer: What does China’s ‘two sessions’ mean for climate policy in 2025?
- Cropped 12 March 2025: Trump and timber; Food fights; Peru’s peatlands
- Analysis: UK emissions fall 3.6% in 2024 as coal use drops to lowest since 1666
- Carbon Brief 采访清华大学王灿教授
- Factcheck: Climate change is not making extreme cold more common
- Analysis: Nearly a tenth of global climate finance threatened by Trump aid cuts
- DeBriefed 7 March 2025: China’s pivotal ‘two sessions’; IPCC indecision; Lessons from UK’s 1950s ‘Super Grid’
- Major banana exporters could face ‘60% drop’ in growing area due to warming
- China Briefing 6 March 2025: ‘Two sessions’ climate news; New vice-minister; Targets missed
- IPCC report timeline still undecided after ‘most difficult’ meeting in China
- Half of global croplands could see a drop in suitable crops at 2C of warming
- Webinar: Key outcomes from the resumed UN COP16 biodiversity summit
February 2025
- DeBriefed 28 February 2025: COP16 lands finance deal; More than half of nations skip key nature pledge; UK eyes cost-saving emissions plan
- COP16: Key outcomes agreed at the resumed UN biodiversity conference in Rome
- Cropped 26 February 2025: COP16 biodiversity talks resume; Farmers sue Trump; Mapping extreme weather’s ag impacts
- UK belatedly publishes nature pledge at COP16 in Rome as it seeks ‘leadership role’
- Revelado: Más de la mitad de las naciones no protegen el 30% de la tierra y el mar en sus planes de biodiversidad de la ONU
- 分析：2024年清洁能源对中国GDP的贡献将达到创纪录的10%
- CCC: Reducing emissions 87% by 2040 would help ‘cut household costs by £1,400’
- Revealed: More than half of nations fail to protect 30% of land and sea in UN nature plans
- DeBriefed 21 February 2025: Brazil joins oil bloc ahead of COP30; US ‘pulled’ from IPCC meeting; Cooling cities with ‘smart’ surfaces
- IPCC’s special report on cities is its first with majority-women authorship team
- Infographic: How ‘digital sequence information’ can generate funds for biodiversity
- China Briefing 20 February 2025: Missed climate deadline; Clean-tech’s economic contribution; New renewables pricing system
- Explainer: How China’s renewable pricing reforms will affect its climate goals
- Guest post: How the global ‘water gap’ will grow under climate change
- Analysis: Clean energy contributed a record 10% of China’s GDP in 2024
- The Carbon Brief Profile: Germany
- DeBriefed 14 February 2025: Nearly 95% of countries miss UN climate deadline; 1.5C on horizon; Behind-the-scenes of CB analysis
- Mapped: How extreme weather is destroying crops around the world
- Just 17% of world’s peatlands are protected, new study warns
- China’s construction of new coal-power plants ‘reached 10-year high’ in 2024
- Cropped 12 February 2025: Trump chaos; COP16 leadership in question; How global trade harms forest species
- 分析：2024年中国清洁能源创纪录增长遏制CO2上升
- Germany election 2025: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change
- Guest post: How atmospheric rivers are bringing rain to West Antarctica
- Analysis: 95% of countries miss UN deadline to submit 2035 climate pledges
- DeBriefed 7 February 2025: Hottest January on record; Trump tariffs; UN climate talks star in theatre thriller
- Media response to 2022 IPCC report suggests shift to ‘solutions-based reporting’
- China Briefing 6 February 2025: Emissions halt; ‘Green’ Asian Winter Games; US-China tariff war
- Mapped: How ‘natural’ world heritage sites are threatened by climate extremes
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Wang Can
- Guest post: How climate change is causing ‘ecological grief’ for farmers in Ghana
January 2025
- DeBriefed 31 January 2025: Closing Africa’s power gap; UK needs forest ‘twice size of London’ to offset airport plans; Kenya’s climate refugees
- ‘Catastrophic’ 2023 lake outburst in India driven by glacial melt and permafrost thaw
- Cropped 29 January 2025: Trump takes office; UK nature ‘falling short’; Egg prices soar
- Met Office: A review of the UK’s climate in 2024
- Analysis: UK would need forest ‘twice size of London’ to offset new airport expansion
- Analysis: Record surge of clean energy in 2024 halts China’s CO2 rise
- DeBriefed 24 January 2025: Trump leaves Paris Agreement; EU solar outshines coal; Tracing climate fingerprints on tropical storms
- China Briefing 23 January 2025: China’s climate ‘concern’ over Trump; Peak oil debate; China’s energy storage lead
- Q&A: How China became the world’s leading market for energy storage
- EU’s solar and wind growth pushes fossil-fuel power to lowest level in 40 years
- Guest post: How ‘super pollutants’ harm human health and worsen climate change
- 专家：中国2025年能源与气候行动将有哪些期待？
- DeBriefed 17 January 2025: Trump looms; Fossil fuels made LA fires ‘burn hotter’; Has ‘cli-fi’ come of age?
- Met Office: Atmospheric CO2 rise now exceeding IPCC 1.5C pathways
- ‘Multi-year’ droughts have become more frequent, drier and hotter over past 40 years
- Cropped 15 January 2025: LA up in flames; Illegal rewilding in Scotland; COP30 dredging cancelled
- Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2024
- Vacancy: Data analyst
- Media reaction: The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires and the role of climate change
- DeBriefed 10 January 2025: Los Angeles burns; Trump tilts at ‘windmills’; What cricket chirps reveal about rainforest change
- State of the climate: 2024 sets a new record as the first year above 1.5C
- Analysis: UK newspaper editorials attacked Ed Miliband relentlessly throughout 2024
- China Briefing 9 January 2025: 2025 government priorities; China’s first energy law; What to watch in year ahead
- Experts: What to expect from China on energy and climate action in 2025?
- US emissions ‘unchanged’ in 2024 despite coal power at lowest level since 1967
- Interactive: How the world is already adapting to climate change
- DeBriefed 3 January 2025: ‘Decade of deadly heat’; Russian gas cut off; Europe’s forgotten overseas territories and climate change
- Analysis: UK’s electricity was cleanest ever in 2024
December 2024
- Q&A: 中美贸易战对能源转型意味着什么？
- DeBriefed 20 December 2024: Cyclone Chido hits; Coal’s new peak; Africa’s energy transition
- Analysis: Only five proposals for coal plants remain across OECD’s 38 countries
- Cropped 18 December 2024: No UN deal for drought; Brazil beef investigations; New IPBES reports
- IPBES nexus report: Five takeaways for biodiversity, food, water, health and climate
- DeBriefed 13 December 2024: Arctic tundra emitting CO2; UK sets path to ‘clean power’; What climate scientists worry about
- Analysis: How the UK plans to reach clean power by 2030
- China Briefing 12 December 2024: Export controls; Carbon concentration figures; ‘War on sand’
- Record-breaking Philippines typhoon season was ‘supercharged’ by climate change
- Revealed: English farmers received record-high flood relief after last winter’s extreme rain
- Explainer: How China’s renewables rollout boosts its ‘war on sand’