Recent Carbon Brief articles by Polly Bennett

Polly Bennett is our digital content manager. She holds a BSc in biology from the University of Southampton and a MSc in science communication from Imperial College London. She has spent several years working in digital communications and marketing for charity and academic organisations, such as CERN and King's College London.

• Pacific Ocean behind recent Antarctic sea ice growth, study says
• UK aims for 57% carbon cut but lacks policies to get there
• Guest post: Why Paris climate pledges need to overdeliver to keep warming to 2C
• Brexit: 94 unanswered questions for climate and energy policy
• Scientists find common ground over climate sensitivity
• Sahel rainfall recovery linked to warming Mediterranean, study says
• Explainer: When will the European Union ratify the Paris Agreement?
• Discovery exposes fragility of Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf
• Alpine soils storing up to a third less carbon as summers warm
• Low oil prices could ‘hamper’ action on climate change, say scientists
• Analysis: Negative emissions tested at world’s first major BECCS facility
• Arctic could warm by 17C if all known fossil fuels are burned, study finds
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Debra Roberts
• Guest Post: What does the Paris Agreement mean for the oceans?
• Video: Experts on the challenges of climate change adaptation
• Shell outlines ‘below 2C’ climate change scenario
• Guest post: How to improve clarity in greenhouse gas emissions targets
• Climate change to widen range of disease-carrying mosquitoes, says study
• Mapped: The climate change conversation on Twitter
• Rising CO2 has ‘greened’ world’s plants and trees
• Guest post: Understanding CO2 fertilisation and climate change
• Timeline: How BECCS became climate change’s ‘saviour’ technology
• In-depth: Experts assess the feasibility of ‘negative emissions’
• Explainer: 10 ways ‘negative emissions’ could slow climate change
• Factcheck: Are climate models ‘wrong’ on rainfall extremes?
• The 35 countries cutting the link between economic growth and emissions
• Guest post: Understanding the government’s capacity market
• UK emissions lowest since the 1920s as renewables overtake coal
• China is responsible for 10% of human influence on climate change, study says
• Shrinking of forest carbon sink under climate change may be ‘less than anticipated’
• Budget 2016: key climate and energy announcements
• Mapped: The world’s nuclear power plants
• Carbon Briefly: Peter Stott
• UK needs an ‘Energiewende’, says energy industry chief
• EU referendum opinion tracker: energy and climate change
• How death of US Supreme Court judge might affect Clean Power Plan
• Analysis: How BP’s energy outlook has changed after the Paris agreement
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Valérie Masson-Delmotte
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Lisa Nandy
• Analysis: Hinkley delay could put UK carbon budgets at further risk
• Analysis: How much did El Niño boost global temperature in 2015?
• Levy Control Framework: The unanswered questions
• Focus on regional climate impacts to hasten emission cuts, scientists say
• Analysis: How 2015 became the hottest year on record
• Heat absorbed by oceans has doubled since 1997
• Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2015
• Guest post: Linking extreme rainfall, flooding and climate change in the recent UK deluges
• Carbon Briefly: Jason Box
• Guest post: Untangling fact from fiction in media warnings of extreme weather
• Human emissions will delay next ice age by 50,000 years, study says
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Tim Flannery
• Aliso Canyon: How bad is the California gas leak disaster?
• Map: Where climate change could hit electricity production
• Guest post: Climate change before the court
• UK now burning 33% of world’s wood pellet imports
• Poaching could reduce carbon storage of tropical forests, study says
• AGU 2015: Scientists react to Paris agreement on climate change
• Interactive map: Historical emissions around the world
• Piers Forster: 1.5C is a brave new world
• Global reaction: the Paris Agreement on climate change
• COP21 video: Miguel Cañete reacts to Paris climate deal
• Analysis: The final Paris climate deal
• Myles Allen: Can we hold global temperatures to 1.5C?
• COP21: Experts discuss ‘greenhouse gas emissions neutrality’
• Storm Desmond: scientists and media examine role of climate change
• COP21: Five things to look out for in the final Paris text
• Scientists discuss the 1.5C limit to global temperature rise
• Analysis: How the draft Paris text has changed
• Analysis: Developing countries need $3.5 trillion* to implement climate pledges by 2030
• Analysis: which countries have sent the most delegates to COP21?
• COP21 video: St Lucia’s James Fletcher on loss and damage
• Decrease in China’s coal use sees global emissions fall in 2015
• Explainer: Why ‘differentiation’ is key to unlocking Paris climate deal
• Explainer: the ‘ratchet mechanism’ within the Paris climate deal
• Dr James Hansen: UK is ‘screwing its children’ with fracking policy
• Analysis: the key announcements from Day 1 at COP21
• Video: Visualising methane emissions as they happen
• Paris 2015: What do the negotiating alliances want?
• Animation: Satellite images of ‘surging’ glaciers in Asia
• CCC: Cut UK emissions 61% by 2030 for fifth carbon budget
• Interactive: the Paris climate deal
• Hottest five-year period on record is 2011-2015, says WMO
• Analysis: UK government quietly slashes renewable energy forecast
• Factcheck: Media reacts to Prince Charles’s comments on Syria and climate change
• Carbon Briefly: Chris Rapley
• In-depth: UK pledges coal phase out by 2025, but uncertainty remains
• Melting Antarctic ice sheets could add up to 30cm to sea levels by 2100
• Video: NASA satellites show our ‘breathing’ planet in action
• Carbon Briefly: Katharine Hayhoe
• Indonesian fires now on a par with Brazil’s total annual emissions
• The contrasting fortunes of Atlantic cod in warming oceans
• Hurricane Patricia: The role of El Niño, climate change and good fortune
• Heat and humidity could make parts of the Middle East ‘unbearable’ by 2100
• Old battlelines resurface as countries meet for last time ahead of Paris climate summit
• Carbon Briefly: Nick Nuttall
• Factcheck: The steel crisis and UK electricity prices
• Five charts that show how Arctic and Antarctic sea ice is faring in 2015
• CCC: UK wind and solar will be cheaper than gas by 2020
• IEA: UN pledges will cause dramatic slowdown in energy emissions by 2030
• Climate change adding to hurricane damage costs, study suggests