The latest 100 articles from Carbon Brief
June 2025
- CCC: UK climate advisers now ‘more optimistic’ net-zero goals can be met
- Guest post: Investigating how volcanic eruptions can affect climate projections
- Guest post: How solar panels and batteries can now run ‘close to 24/365’ in some cities
- DeBriefed 20 June 2025: Three years to ‘keep 1.5C alive’; Bonn talks turn ‘bitter’; Inside Mumbai’s monsoon ‘war room’
- Guest post: How the world’s rivers are releasing billions of tonnes of ‘ancient’ carbon
- Guest post: Why 2024’s global temperatures were unprecedented, but not surprising
- Cropped 18 June 2025: High Seas Treaty ratifications; Ocean warming woes; Brazilian deforestation ‘surges’
- Staple crops yields face ‘substantial losses’ in warming world – even with adaptation
- 中国农机排放量上升或“阻碍”净零目标实现
- Analysis: Reform-led councils threaten 6GW of solar and battery schemes across England
- DeBriefed 13 June 2025: Trump’s ‘biggest’ climate rollback; UK goes nuclear; How Carbon Brief visualises research
- Chart: The rise, fall and rise of UK nuclear power over eight decades
- Guest post: How climate change is fuelling record-breaking extreme weather
- China Briefing 12 June 2025: Critical mineral exports; Electricity price; Coal ‘capacity payment’
- Guest post: China’s ‘capacity payments’ boosted coal-plant revenue by up to 8%
- UK spending review 2025: Key climate and energy announcements
- Ocean current ‘collapse’ could trigger ‘profound cooling’ in northern Europe – even with global warming
- Guest post: Why the global area for regrowing trees is 71% smaller than thought
- Explainer: How human-caused aerosols are ‘masking’ global warming
- 解读：何为中国城市低碳转型的“深圳模式”？
- DeBriefed 6 June 2025: Nigeria’s deadly flash floods; UK’s record spring drives solar surge; Lessons from Japan’s ‘Cool Biz’
- Guest post: How ‘feedback loops’ and ‘non-linear thinking’ can inform climate policy
- 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