Recent Carbon Brief articles by Josh Gabbatiss

Josh covers climate and energy policy. Josh holds a BSc in zoology from the University of Bristol. He previously worked as science correspondent at The Independent and prior to that was a freelance journalist for a variety of scientific publications including New Scientist and BBC Earth.

• Analysis: Why the $300bn climate-finance goal is even less ambitious than it seems
• COP29: What is the ‘new collective quantified goal’ on climate finance?
• Analysis: UK must spend £1.7bn more on nature by 2026 to meet climate-finance goal
• How a UK government-backed company has fuelled gas power in Africa
• DeBriefed 13 September 2024: US presidential debate skirts climate; Global fires and floods; How a UK-backed firm fuels African gas 
• US election 2024: How Kamala Harris and Donald Trump differ starkly on energy and climate
• Revealed: Three-quarters of prisons in England and Wales face ‘high risk’ of overheating
• Net-zero transition will deliver at least ‘£164bn in benefits’ to UK
• DeBriefed 14 June 2024: Bonn climate talks; When Earth could breach 1.5C; How polluter taxes could raise climate funds
• Analysis: UK climate aid reaches record £1.8bn in 2023 after loosening rules
• Rich countries met $100bn climate-finance goal by ‘relabelling existing aid’
• EU election 2024: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change
• Analysis: Benefits of UK ‘sustainable aviation fuel’ will be wiped out by rising demand
• Major emitters ‘may retain or expand’ fossil fuels despite net-zero plans
• Q&A: Climate finance at World Bank and IMF spring meetings 2024
• Revealed: UK ‘double counting’ £500m of aid for war-torn countries as climate finance 
• Analysis: New oil and gas projects since 2021 could emit 14bn tonnes of CO2
• ‘Drill, baby, drill’: The surprising history of Donald Trump’s fossil-fuel slogan
• DeBriefed 15 March 2024: Global methane surge; Europe faces ‘urgent’ climate risks; Surprising origin of Trump’s ‘drill, baby, drill’
• Shell abandons 2035 emissions target and weakens 2030 goal
• Loggers have ‘grabbed’ around 1m hectares of Indigenous land in DRC
• UK emissions could rise by 15% if government uses ‘surplus’ to weaken climate goal, CCC warns
• Analysis: World will add enough renewables in five years to power US and Canada
• Analysis: UK ‘adds’ £450m to its climate-finance spending by changing definition
• Revealed: Tenth of UK’s climate-aid spending goes via private consultancies
• Analysis: How the UK has fallen 40% behind on its £11.6bn climate-finance pledge
• Analysis: How the UK has spent its foreign aid on climate change since 2011
• DeBriefed 6 October 2023: ‘Gobsmackingly bananas’ global heat; EU’s carbon border tax; UK solar claims factchecked
• In-depth Q&A: Will the new global shipping deal help deliver climate goals?
• Q&A: Does a new ‘global pact’ accelerate climate finance for developing countries?
• DeBriefed 16 June 2023: Bonn talks close; Shell sticks to fossil fuels; Record ocean heat
• Jobs created by net-zero transition will ‘offset’ fossil-fuel job losses in Republican US states
• ‘Explosive’ growth means one in three new cars will be electric by 2030, IEA says
• Q&A: Did World Bank and IMF spring meetings help to scale up climate finance?
• Analysis: Shell admits 1.5C climate goal means immediate end to fossil fuel growth
• Record clean-power growth in 2023 to spark ‘new era’ of fossil fuel decline
• The Carbon Brief Interview: ‘Loss-and-damage’ finance pioneer Robert Van Lierop
• Heat pumps ‘up to three times cheaper’ than green hydrogen in Europe, study finds
• Net-zero is ‘economic opportunity of 21st century’ for UK, says Skidmore review
• Richest people in UK ‘use more energy flying’ than poorest do overall
• Analysis: IEA’s renewables forecast grows 76% in two years after ‘largest ever’ revision
• Heat pumps are the ‘central technology’ for low-carbon heating, concludes IEA
• Explainer: How can climate finance be increased from ‘billions to trillions’?
• Timeline: The struggle over ‘loss and damage’ in UN climate talks
• Analysis: Bolsonaro election loss could cut Brazilian Amazon deforestation by 89%
• Electric cars sales in the US ‘could prevent one-tenth of global cropland expansion’
• Windfarms raise incomes and house prices in rural US, study finds
• Australian election 2022: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change
• ‘One quarter’ of US emissions since 2005 come from fossil fuels on public lands
• The Carbon Brief Profile: France
• Analysis: How UK newspapers changed their minds about climate change
• Spring statement 2022: Key climate and energy announcements
• Oil majors ‘not walking the talk’ on climate action, study confirms
• Climate-adaptation funds have not reached half of ‘most vulnerable’ nations, study finds
• Coal and trucks pushed US ‘further off track’ for climate targets in 2021
• Q&A: What does the new German coalition government mean for climate change?
• Analysis: Why climate-finance ‘flows’ are falling short of $100bn pledge
• In-depth Q&A: How will the UK’s ‘heat and buildings strategy’ help achieve net-zero?
• In-depth Q&A: How will the UK’s hydrogen strategy help achieve net-zero?
• In-depth Q&A: What is the UK’s ‘net-zero’ plan for transport?
• CCC: UK will miss climate goals by ‘huge margin’ without new policies
• Perfil Carbon Brief: México
• The Carbon Brief profile: Mexico
• Analysis: How will England’s strategies for trees and peat help achieve net-zero by 2050?
• IEA: Mineral supplies for electric cars ‘must increase 30-fold’ to meet climate goals
• The Carbon Brief Profile: United States
• In-depth Q&A: How the UK plans to cut industrial emissions by two-thirds
• UN: New national climate pledges will only cut emissions ‘by 2%’ over next decade
• Analysis: Shell says new ‘Brazil-sized’ forest would be needed to meet 1.5C climate goal
• IEA: India is on ‘cusp of a solar-powered revolution’
• Floating solar panels on 1% of reservoirs ‘could double’ Africa’s hydropower capacity
• Q&A: What does the Brexit deal say about climate change and energy?
• Analysis: Which countries met the UN’s 2020 deadline to raise ‘climate ambition’?
• In-depth Q&A: How does the UK’s ‘energy white paper’ aim to tackle climate change?
• Media reaction: What Joe Biden’s US election victory means for climate change
• IEA: Wind and solar capacity will overtake both gas and coal globally by 2024
• US election: Climate experts react to Joe Biden’s victory
• US election tracker 2020: Democrats and Republicans on energy and climate
• In-depth Q&A: What does the global shift in diets mean for climate change?
• Coronavirus: Green recovery ‘could prevent 0.3C’ of warming by 2050
• IEA: ‘Green’ coronavirus recovery would keep global emissions below 2019 peak
• ‘Construction fever’ responsible for one fifth of China’s CO2 emissions
• Four more years of Donald Trump could ‘delay global emissions cuts by 10 years’
• IEA: Coronavirus ‘accelerating closure’ of ageing fossil-fuelled power plants
• Fuel savings in US cars have ‘cut 17bn tonnes of CO2 since 1975’
• IEA: Coronavirus impact on CO2 emissions six times larger than 2008 financial crisis
• The Carbon Brief Profile: South Korea
• Coal mines emit more methane than oil-and-gas sector, study finds
• In-depth Q&A: How will tree planting help the UK meet its climate goals?
• The Carbon Brief Profile: Iran
• CCC: One fifth of UK farmland must be used to tackle climate change
• Emissions from Chinese aviation ‘could quadruple by 2050’
• COP25 video: Messages from climate marchers to politicians
• Election 2019: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change