The latest 100 articles from Carbon Brief
June 2025
- Analysis: UK’s solar power surges 42% after sunniest spring on record
- Cropped 4 June 2025: ‘Tricks’ and ‘cover-ups’; Wild weather; Former UN nature negotiator interviewed
- World might have set itself an unachievable nature target, says former UK negotiator
- 分析：清洁能源首次助力中国碳排放下降
- Explainer: What is China’s ‘Shenzen model’ for low-carbon transition in cities?
May 2025
- DeBriefed 30 May 2025: Earth eyes 2C; Why net-zero is not behind UK bill hikes; US academics stage climate science ‘fire hose’
- China Briefing 29 May 2025: The ‘Shenzen model’; Record solar growth; NDRC rejected industrial ‘rat race’
- Guest post: How marine life provides climate benefits worth billions of dollars
- Global wheat yields would be ‘10%’ higher without climate change
- Factcheck: Why expensive gas – not net-zero – is keeping UK electricity prices so high
- Svalbard: Can scientists salvage climate data from rapidly melting glaciers?
- Svalbard: How it feels to be a climate scientist in the fastest-warming place on Earth
- DeBriefed 16 May 2025: Has China’s CO2 peaked?; US bill ‘would kill IRA’; Poland’s coal collapse
- Revealed: UK development body still has $700m invested overseas in fossil-fuel assets
- ‘Significant’ risk of Amazon forest dieback if global warming overshoots 1.5C
- China Briefing 15 May 2025: CO2 emissions fall; Drought affects food production; Climate diplomacy at CELAC
- Factcheck: How the UK is – and is not – studying solar geoengineering
- Interview: What the people of China’s coal-rich Shanxi think about climate change
- Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time
- Rising emissions from farm equipment could ‘hinder’ China’s net-zero goals
- Guest post: More than 70% of adaptation plans for European cities are ‘inconsistent’
- DeBriefed 9 May 2025: Australia elects climate action; Spain ‘committed’ to renewables
- Children born in 2020 will face ‘unprecedented exposure’ to climate extremes
- Cropped 7 May 2025: Ocean alarm; Tariff deforestation risk; West Africa’s fisheries
- Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’
- 解读：中国如何应对数据中心能源增长的需求
- DeBriefed 2 May 2025: Iberian blackout; Tony Blair’s ‘clumsy’ comments; Trump’s ‘cascading’ impact on European climate science
- Analysis: Attacks on Ed Miliband in UK newspaper editorials have already exceeded 2024 levels
- Forests taking longer to recover from severe ‘megafires’ since 2010
- Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief
- Guest post: How climate science is – and is not – shaping adaptation planning in southern Africa
- China Briefing 1 May 2025: Xi steadfast on climate; Solar and wind surpassed thermal power; Controlling short-term GHGs
April 2025
- Q&A: What we do – and do not – know about the blackout in Spain and Portugal
- CCC: England’s approach to climate adaptation is ‘not working’
- DeBriefed 25 April 2025: Brazil calls for country emissions plans; Global coral bleaching; Where top pope contenders stand on climate
- State of the climate: 2025 close behind 2024 as the hottest start to a year
- Australia election 2025: Where parties stand on climate change, energy and nature
- Canada election 2025: What the manifestos say on nature, energy and climate
- Analysis: Conservative election win could add 800m tonnes to Canada’s emissions by 2035
- Cropped 23 April 2025: Beef vs the Amazon; BRICS vs tariffs; Ag alphabet
- Guest post: Why hydrogen cars are being outsold by Ferraris
- China Briefing 17 April 2025: US-China tariff war; AI and data centres; Coal construction ‘till 2027’
- DeBriefed 17 April 2025: India and Pakistan heat ‘tests human limits’; UK steel crisis sparks net-zero attack; Why Nigerian households are turning to solar
- Explainer: How China is managing the rising energy demand from data centres
- 嘉宾来稿：沙特从中国进口太阳能电池板规模意外激增
- Guest post: Exploring the risks of ‘cascading’ tipping points in a warming world
- Glossary: Carbon Brief’s guide to 25 ‘climate-friendly’ farming methods
- DeBriefed 11 April 2025: Trump tariff chaos; Climate penalties for shipping; Why is biodiversity loss overlooked?
- Q&A: Nations agree carbon-pricing system to steer shipping towards net-zero
- Q&A: What does the new German coalition government mean for climate and energy?
- Survey: ‘Very few’ Africans place responsibility for climate action on ‘rich nations’
- Cropped 9 April 2025: Trump’s tariffs; UK megafarm ‘blocked’; ‘Sus timber’ in Tasmania
- Guest post: How to apportion ‘net-zero carbon debt’ if global warming overshoots 1.5C
- Analysis: Nearly 60 countries have ‘dramatically’ cut plans to build coal plants since 2015
- Power-sector CO2 hits ‘all-time high’ in 2024 despite record growth for clean energy
- DeBriefed 4 April 2025: Scientists issue Trump ‘SOS’; EU climate goal in jeopardy; Deep-sea mining talks
- China Briefing 3 April 2025: Solar exports; Carbon market expansion; Leaders’ climate commitments
- Global warming is ‘exposing’ new coastlines and islands as Arctic glaciers shrink
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