Recent Carbon Brief articles by Carbon Brief Staff
- 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
- Q&A: Can debt-for-nature ‘swaps’ help tackle biodiversity loss and climate change?
- Guest post: Tracking G7 climate progress with data from 116,095 power plants
- Webinar: What are the key climate priorities for the new UK government?
- Q&A: How Denmark plans to tax agriculture emissions to meet climate goals
- Q&A：中国如何适应日益频繁的洪灾
- Interactive: Labour government’s in-tray for climate change, energy and nature
- Cropped 3 July 2024: Brazil wetlands blaze; Denmark agri carbon tax; Heat and drought hit crops
- Q&A: How China is adapting to increasingly frequent flooding
- Élections législatives Françaises 2024: Que disent les programmes sur l’énergie et le changement climatique
- Negative emissions: Scientists debate role of CO2 removal in tackling climate change
- Analysis: UK misses tree-planting targets by forest the ‘size of Birmingham’
- France election 2024: What the manifestos say on energy and climate
- Guest post: The critical role of ‘grounding zones’ in the retreat of Earth’s ice sheets
- Analysis: Wind and solar added more to global energy than any other source in 2023
- Cropped 19 June 2024: Why food prices are spiking; Bonn climate talks; Plunging polar bear populations
- Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2024 UN climate conference
- 分析：月度碳排放量下降或表明中国已在2023年碳达峰
- Cropped 5 June 2024: Sudan famine ‘imminent’; Pandemic treaty drags on; US backs offsets with ‘integrity’
- Guest post: Tracking the unprecedented impact of humans on the climate
- Nine key takeaways about the ‘state of CO2 removal’ in 2024
- 嘉宾来稿：中国能源系统如何在2055年前实现碳中和
- Analysis: European power-sector emissions fall by 20% since last EU election
- Guest post: The role of ‘blue carbon’ in addressing climate change
- 嘉宾来稿：满足中国增长的用电需求 光伏加储能“比新建煤电更实惠”
- Cropped 22 May 2024: Farmland ‘grabbing’; Ocean court ‘victory’ for small islands; Pre-COP16 talks
- Guest post: Heat pumps gained European market share in 2023 despite falling sales
- Guest post: How China’s energy system can reach carbon neutrality before 2055
- Q&A: What do India’s elections mean for coal communities and climate change?
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Octopus Energy’s Greg Jackson
- Guest post: Solar plus batteries ‘cheaper than new coal’ for meeting China’s rising demand
- Cropped 8 May 2024: Food price spike; Infectious diseases; Indian ocean heatwave
- Chart: How British electricity supplies are shifting decisively away from fossil fuels
- Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief
- COP16: Tracking country pledges on tackling biodiversity loss
- Guest post: Ice-age analysis suggests worst-case global warming is less likely
- Cropped 24 April 2024: Mass coral bleaching; FAO report retraction request; Escazú Agreement
- Guest post: How shifting diets away from beef could cut Brazil’s emissions
- Analysis: Fossil fuels fall to record-low 2.4% of British electricity
- Cropped 10 April 2024: ‘Ghost roads’ deforestation; Record wildfires; Southern Africa drought
- Guest post: How climate change could reverse progress in global inequality
- Cropped 27 March 2024: Bankrolling meat and dairy; EU nature restoration pushback; Missing cherry blossoms
- Guest post: Mapping where tree-planting has the greatest climate benefit
- Factcheck: 18 misleading myths about heat pumps
- Guest post: Climate adaptation becomes less effective as the world warms
- Cropped 13 March 2024: Drought hits food supplies; ‘Mass bleaching’ of coral reefs; Industrialising African ag
- Analysis: UK emissions in 2023 fell to lowest level since 1879
- China Briefing 7 March 2024: ‘Two sessions’ readout; BYD’s EV megaships; Power upgrade
- UK spring budget 2024: Key climate and energy announcements
- Analysis: Trump election win could add 4bn tonnes to US emissions by 2030
- Guest post: The challenge of consensus decision-making in UN climate negotiations
- Cropped 28 February 2024: Chocolate crisis; Tree-planting scrutinised; EU restoration law
- Q&A: What does the EU ‘nature restoration’ law mean for climate and biodiversity?
- China Briefing 22 February 2024: Interview with Chinese govt climate advisor; Missing emissions targets; The cost of excluding China
- No ‘statistically significant’ link between climate change and Chile’s wildfires
- Cropped 14 February 2024: Nature fund gets real; Migratory species in peril; EU rolls back regulations
- The Carbon Brief Profile: Democratic Republic of the Congo