Recent Carbon Brief articles by Mat Hope

• National carbon market on the horizon for China
• Shale gas remains UK’s most divisive energy source, poll shows
• Newspapers’ skeptic views persisted in ‘Climategate’ aftermath, study shows
• New US poll shows gap between scientists, the public, and politicians on climate change
• Coal returns as most-used fuel for electricity generation, new government statistics show
• Fracking divides UK media as Lancashire Council defers Cuadrilla decision
• In depth: Infrastructure bill amendments on fracking, fossil fuels, and zero carbon homes
• Survey shows partisan split among MPs on climate and energy issues
• Briefing: India’’s energy and climate change challenge
• Lancashire council report recommends refusing fracking plans
• Obama’’s strong words on climate change in sixth State of the Union address
• Oil industry cuts jobs and exploration budgets in response to falling prices
• Expert views: How low oil prices affect the UK’s climate and energy policy
• Long-term economic shocks imply taking strong, early action on climate change, study shows
• The implications of $50-a-barrel oil for the world’s energy mix
• Germany makes slow but steady progress towards ambitious climate goals
• Energy trends in 2014 and how they affect climate change
• The year in UK climate politics
• Capacity market secures some new gas while providing stay of execution to old coal
• UK energy statistics: Gas power increases, renewables cover nuclear shortfall and power consumption falls
• Government holds first capacity market auction
• Good COP, bad COP: Winners and losers at the Lima climate conference
• Briefing: Lima Call for Climate Action lays out policy options for new global deal
• Glossary: International climate change negotiations
• Briefing: Country pledges to the UN’s Green Climate Fund
• Low carbon policies could cut household energy costs after 2030, Committee on Climate Change says
• Why the UN says climate adaptation could cost developing countries $1 trillion a year
• Five things we’ve learned from the first five days of the Lima climate change conference
• Dissecting Germany’s new climate action plan
• Climate policy goes commercial: E.ON takes advantage of the new economics of a low carbon energy market
• Factcheck: The Times claims climate-related deaths estimate is ‘exaggerated’
• Is India’’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, a climate leader?
• UN report says energy efficiency integral to bridging emissions gap
• Germany debates programme to save 2020 climate target
• Are countries contributing their fair share to the UN’’s climate adaptation fund?
• A detailed look at the US and China’s historic climate deal
• Why the government adds green levies to household energy bills
• What the Republicans’ midterm election victory means for global climate policy
• How can climate negotiators avoid Paris 2015 being a rerun of Copenhagen 2009?
• The implications of the US midterm elections for climate change policy: An international perspective
• 10 charts illustrating the IPCC’s report, from rising emissions to transforming the energy sector
• What is the emissions impact of switching from coal to gas?
• The gas industry’s delicate climate policy balancing act
• US emissions increase hints at limitations of Obama’s clean power plan
• Why a healthy carbon market underpins the EU’s 2030 climate goals
• How National Grid keeps the lights on when a large power station catches fire
• US military outlines plan to deal with increasing climate change threat
• How much of China’s carbon dioxide emissions is the rest of the world responsible for?
• Why the European Commission approved the UK’’s plans for a new nuclear plant
• What the UK’’s capacity market could mean for the future of coal, gas and energy sector emissions
• Analysis: Will Labour’’s energy efficiency overhaul work?
• Labour’s vision for a low carbon UK
• How TV news covered the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s three big reports
• World on course to overshoot 2C target, study shows
• US hints at vision for a new global climate deal
• Why ExxonMobil is betting on a higher carbon price than Google
• Three graphs showing why climate action is good for the economy
• Why we may never get a Montreal protocol for climate change
• UN seeks billions to fill climate adaptation funding gap – but where’s it going to come from?
• The UK’’s plan for a new global climate deal
• Global carbon intensity is falling – but not quickly enough to avoid worst impacts of climate change
• Why undersea fracking is unlikely to give Scotland a £600 billion windfall
• Is there enough water to frack?
• Analysis: China’s big carbon market experiment
• The trouble with Europe’’s ageing nuclear power plants
• Could an independent Scotland deliver a low carbon future?
• Climate change a ‘major challenge’ to South Asia’’s economic development – report
• Why scientists need public backing to engineer the climate
• Transition énergétique: What France’s energy law learns from Germany and the UK
• Public remains divided or undecided on fracking, government data shows
• Fracking’s impact on house prices is unclear, but people still don’t want it (or anything else) in their back yards
• Infographic: Cutting emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change
• Government data hints at future challenges for curbing natural gas emissions
• Three White House charts showing why the world needs to take immediate action on climate change
• Why measuring fugitive methane emissions from shale gas production matters
• UK’’s energy efficiency ranking falls due to government policy rollbacks
• The future of coal in China, India, Australia, the US, EU, and UK
• Funding boost nudges UK carbon capture and storage industry forwards
• What the fossil fuel industry thinks of the ‘carbon bubble’
• Updated: The science of fracking and earthquakes
• Explained: Fugitive methane emissions from natural gas production
• Record renewable energy consumption dampens impact of cold weather on UK’’s annual emissions
• Scotland doesn’t have much shale gas, new estimates indicate
• What EU policy responses to the Ukraine crisis reveal about energy security priorities
• New statistics show world’’s tentative steps towards low carbon energy
• Lord Stern says economic models of climate change need better climate science
• Rain-obsessed: Brits concerned about climate change likely to think weather has got worse
• Why National Grid will pay companies to switch off
• Carry on coal? The cost of keeping the UK’s dirty power stations alive
• Can the world curb global warming and save $740 billion? Only if the alternative becomes more costly
• Intensity, pragmatism & flexibility: Three key components of Obama’’s carbon pollution plan
• Could rebranding environmentalism help tackle climate change?
• Analysis: Newspapers less interested in climate impacts of shale oil than gas
• The state of carbon pricing: Around the world in 46 carbon markets
• Lord Deben and the Committee on Climate Change agree on onshore wind’s potential
• Does evidence suggest the words “global warming” make people care more about “climate change”?
• What Google searches can (and can’’t) reveal about climate skepticism
• What house prices say about concern for future climate change
• Get on with carbon capture and storage, climate change committee MPs say
• Factcheck: Three things The Guardian’’s Simon Jenkins gets wrong about coal’’s supremacy, and one he gets right