Recent Carbon Brief articles by Robin Webster

• And it’’s goodbye to all that: Robin’’s review of the climate and energy world since 2010
• High renewables ambition, but fossil fuels still dominate: UK and Germany electricity systems compared
• Failure to tackle emissions from power sector could undermine environmental case for HS2
• Cutting emissions without onshore wind: it may be possible, but it would cost us
• Carbon Briefing: how energy demand could drink up global water resources
• Study: “plumes” of methane released into the atmosphere by a few super-emitting shale gas wells
• IPCC review of farming and forests leaves key questions about effect on climate change “unresolved”
• Degrees of change: the IPCC’s projections for future temperature rise
• Not just another climate report: main messages from the UN report on tackling emissions
• It’’s a bit of a downer: can climate change be a good news story?
• Trees at risk, poverty pockets and the risk of tipping: five hidden stories about the impacts of climate change
• Carbon briefing: changing views on biofuels reflected in forthcoming climate report
• The carbon price floor: disliked, divisive and about to be frozen
• Telegraph uses Sky-high estimate for cost of energy infrastructure
• Mail’’s dodgy maths bumps up the cost of wind
• Government 77 years behind on plans to cut emissions through solid wall insulation
• UK isn’t alone in tackling carbon emissions
• UK electricity mix in 2013: less gas, still lots of coal, but wind’s on the up
• Factcheck: how much is the government really spending on flood defences?
• Issues of resilience, interdependence and growth affect global climate change risk
• Too much water, or not enough: why climate change could threaten our power supplies
• Are we underestimating natural gas emissions?
• Cutting emissions could save the UK £100 billion – if others take action too
• A rough guide to tidal lagoons
• Government plans to increase road traffic by 40 per cent could bust climate targets
• Polls show shale gas is more popular in theory than practice
• How the cost of energy in the UK compares to other European countries, in five graphs
• Mail takes gloomiest view of how windfarms affect house prices
• Resources, reserves, exploration wells and onshore licences: a glossary of shale gas terms in the UK
• Npower changes ‘misleading’ figure in energy report
• Do we need new laws on shale gas?
• European battle over 2030 energy system drawing to a close
• No shortage of energy as emissions rise: BP
• UK leads the charge against European Union shale gas regulation
• Seven energy events that surprised us in 2013
• Five graphs that tell the future story of coal
• Can the government legally change the fourth carbon budget?
• Old coal puts energy bill into ping pong
• More for offshore wind, less for onshore and solar: what the new subsidies announcement says about the government’s renewable energy plans
• What’s new about the government’s energy efficiency announcements?
• Parliamentary Committee challenges weakening of government fuel poverty targets
• Is the government prepared to talk about fuel poverty?
• Shale gas could restrain rising energy costs, says report
• The climate change benefits of high speed rail rest on decarbonising the power sector
• Energy companies’ network costs estimate 10 times larger than Ofgem’s
• Why it’s hard to cut the ‘green crap’
• UK limitation on coal funding could close door on controversial coal plant
• Unpopular but tenacious: A guide to the UK carbon price floor
• No backing down on energy efficiency, says Ed Davey, as ECO’s future hangs in the balance
• A blagger’s guide to the Warsaw climate talks
• Will the UK meet its 2020 renewables target?
• The UK public likes renewables, is worried about the cost of energy
• Could old coal threaten the UK’s carbon budgets?
• UK energy statistics show wind power and biomass push renewable electricity to record high – for a bit
• Low carbon zones: an energy efficiency proposal that might work
• Carbon Briefing: energy companies appear before the Energy and Climate Change Committee
• ECO shouldn’t be driving up bills, according to government data
• How the media covered the ‘green taxes’ story – in 5 stages
• Analysis: What are green taxes, could they be scrapped, and what would the effect be
• Four big questions about the nuclear deal
• People don’t trust energy companies to give them advice about energy efficiency
• Wholesale energy and the network grid: the parts of our energy bill politicians can’t control?
• Nearly everyone hates ECO – but how else can we make houses more energy efficient?
• 2,000 solar farms unlikely to materialise under government roadmap
• Are energy companies making excess profits?
• Committee on Climate Change fires a salvo in battle over carbon budget
• Turning energy policy into the war over wind
• Profits, green policies and the return of socialism: a roundup of reaction to Miliband’s energy price freeze
• UK power stations to carry on burning wood, spelling uncertainty for emissions
• Businesses not allowed to be ‘unconcerned’ about green charges in npower poll
• Solar power: how renewable energy’s Cinderella got a fancy new dress and went to the ball
• Shale gas: more or less polluting than coal
• Where’s hot – and not: where would you rather be a wind turbine?
• How the Conservatives sextupled the CCC’s estimate for green power costs
• What’s the difference between natural gas, liquid natural gas, shale gas, shale oil and methane? An oil and gas glossary
• Where next for shale gas in the UK?
• Carbon Briefing: how much of our water will fracking use?
• Is shale gas good or bad for climate change?
• The quickest Q & A on shale gas you’ll see all week: Carbon Brief’s shale gas back catalogue
• Is David Cameron right to be confident in the UK’s shale gas regulation?
• Power company profit figures don’t take investment into account, says energy industry
• The battle of Balcombe, misinformation and not much on climate change: a week in shale gas
• A people’s history of shale gas: How the media story moved from myth to reality
• Fuel poverty policy is ‘frozen’, says parliamentary committee. Can the government fix it?
• Government en route to failure on fuel poverty targets and energy efficiency
• DECC’s conflicting gas price projections
• The UK’s agriculture, coastline and natural habitats are all threatened by climate change – so what’s the government’s response?
• How PCC complaints on climate and energy are won and lost
• UK shale gas unlikely to bring down gas prices in short term, say experts
• Peat, windfarms and wild lands: does wind power reduce emissions in Scotland?
• Will Britain really have blackouts and power rationing? Or not?
• British Geological Survey warns on the dangers of confusing shale gas resources with reserves
• Carbon Briefing: Britain’s shale gas
• The Committee on Climate Change’s fifth progress report, in more detail
• Is more solar power a problem for the grid? No, says the Grid
• The question Horizon missed: What might UK shale gas mean for greenhouse gas emissions?
• What climate change means for vulnerable communities, and what that could mean for us
• Has the Sunday Telegraph revealed the ‘true cost’ of windfarms?
• A climate debate beyond windfarms: engaging the centre-right on climate change
• Soil carbon makes biomass calculations even more complicated