Recent Carbon Brief articles by Carbon Brief Staff
- 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
- IPCC report timeline still undecided after ‘most difficult’ meeting in China
- 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
- 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
- Infographic: How ‘digital sequence information’ can generate funds for biodiversity
- Guest post: How the global ‘water gap’ will grow under climate change
- The Carbon Brief Profile: Germany
- Mapped: How extreme weather is destroying crops around the world
- Just 17% of world’s peatlands are protected, new study warns
- Cropped 12 February 2025: Trump chaos; COP16 leadership in question; How global trade harms forest species
- Germany election 2025: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change
- Guest post: How atmospheric rivers are bringing rain to West Antarctica
- Guest post: How climate change is causing ‘ecological grief’ for farmers in Ghana
- ‘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
- Guest post: How ‘super pollutants’ harm human health and worsen climate change
- Met Office: Atmospheric CO2 rise now exceeding IPCC 1.5C pathways
- 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
- Media reaction: The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires and the role of climate change
- Analysis: UK newspaper editorials attacked Ed Miliband relentlessly throughout 2024
- Interactive: How the world is already adapting to climate change
- Analysis: UK’s electricity was cleanest ever in 2024
- 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
- Analysis: How the UK plans to reach clean power by 2030
- Guest post: The conflicting practices in using land to tackle climate change
- Cropped 4 December 2024: Climate talks omit nature; Land COP underway; ‘Frankenchickens’
- China Briefing 28 November 2024: How China approached COP29; Xi cuts energy deals in South America; Solar’s ‘disorderly’ expansion
- COP29: Key outcomes for food, forests, land and nature at the UN climate talks in Baku
- Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2024
- Webinar: Carbon Brief journalists discuss COP29’s key outcomes
- Five charts: Why a UN plastics treaty matters for climate change
- COP29: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Baku
- COP29 DeBriefed 22 November 2024: Countries split on climate finance; Fossil-fuel transition ‘reaffirmed’; Latest texts analysed
- Cropped 20 November 2024: Food at COP29; ‘Big ag’ in Baku; Brazil’s new climate pledge
- COP29: Five key takeaways from Brazil’s 2035 climate pledge
- Analysis: China’s emissions have now caused more global warming than EU
- Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world
- COP29 DeBriefed 15 November 2024: Azerbaijan’s shaky start; Finance and fossil fuels dominate negotiations; Free webinar today
- China Briefing 14 November 2024: COP29 special edition
- Analysis: Global CO2 emissions will reach new high in 2024 despite slower growth
- COP29: Six key reasons why international climate finance is a ‘wild west’
- Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP29?
- COP16: Principales resultados acordados en la conferencia de la ONU sobre biodiversidad en Cali, Colombia
- Guest post: What 1.5C overshoot would mean for climate impacts and adaptation
- Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at the COP29 climate summit
- Cropped 6 November 2024: COP16 concludes; Recognition for Indigenous peoples; Spain’s farms hit by ‘deadly floods’
- Webinar: Key outcomes from the UN’s COP16 biodiversity summit
- Interactive: Who wants what at the COP29 climate change summit
- COP16: Key outcomes agreed at the UN biodiversity conference in Cali, Colombia
- DeBriefed 1 November 2024: Spain’s deadly floods; UK budget ‘mixed’ on climate; Countries inch towards a deal at COP16
- Guest post: How COP29 host Azerbaijan could boost growth through climate action
- China Briefing 31 October 2024: Q3 emissions; EU’s EV tariff in effect; NDC expectations
- UK autumn budget 2024: Key climate and energy announcements
- Cropped 30 October 2024: The state of play at COP16
- DeBriefed 25 October 2024: COP16 kicks off; ‘Quantum leap’ needed for 1.5C; Where countries stand on reversing nature loss
- Q&A: Can ‘carbon border adjustment mechanisms’ help tackle climate change?
- Cropped 23 October 2024: COP16 kicks off; Water woes; Coral bleaching ‘worst ever’
- Webinar: What to watch at the UN’s COP16 biodiversity summit
- Analysis: Solar surge will send coal power tumbling by 2030, IEA data reveals
- Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at the UN’s COP16 biodiversity summit
- Guest post: The growing threat of climate-sensitive infectious diseases
- Cropped 9 October 2024: COP16 looms; ‘Parched’ Amazon river; UN biodiversity chief Q&A
- Guest post: How to minimise the risks from overshooting the 1.5C limit
- Interactive: Who wants what at the COP16 biodiversity summit
- Q&A：英国如何成为首个淘汰煤电的G7国家
- Guest post: Heat stress thresholds are not designed for vulnerable groups
- Guest post: How to track progress towards the ‘global goal on adaptation’?
- Guest post: How solar geoengineering could disrupt wind and solar power
- Q&A: How the UK became the first G7 country to phase out coal power
- Cropped 25 September 2024: Biodiversity loss ‘worse than terrorism’; Human-polar bear conflict; Australia’s ‘zombie’ forestry
- Guest post: The forgotten role of logistics in achieving net-zero
- Cropped 11 September 2024: Japan rice crisis; EU’s farming future; Environmental defender violence
- Q&A: What the Draghi report says about EU climate action and energy
- Q&A: Why methane levels are rising with no ‘hint of a decline’
- Q&A：中国蓬勃发展的电动汽车产业引起的“贸易战”争论
- Analysis: UK’s record-breaking renewable auction ‘will cut consumer bills’
- Guest post: Just 15 countries account for 98% of new coal-power development
- Q&A: The global ‘trade war’ over China’s booming EV industry
- Cropped 28 August 2024: Sicily sizzles; Exploratory seabed mining; Net-zero ag emissions
- Guest post: Using El Niño forecasts to give early warning of crop failures
- Cropped 14 August 2024: Worldwide wildfires; Offsets up in smoke; Joshua tree spotting
- Climate change made ‘monsoon downpour’ behind Kerala landslides 10% more intense
- Climate change made the ‘supercharged’ 2024 Pantanal wildfires 40% more intense
- IPCC meeting in Sofia fails to agree timeline for seventh assessment report
- Cropped 31 July 2024: Deep-sea mining talks; UN hunger report; Venezuela election and the Amazon
- Q&A: What does deep-sea mining mean for climate change and biodiversity loss?
- Guest post: The growing problem of how extreme heat damages mental health
- CCC: Labour must ‘make up lost ground’ to hit UK climate goals
- Cropped 17 July 2024: Climate change and wine; Seabed mining talks; Argentina’s beef habit