100 articles from Carbon Brief between November 2024 and February 2025
February 2025
- 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
- UK belatedly publishes nature pledge at COP16 in Rome as it seeks ‘leadership role’
- 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
- DeBriefed 21 February 2025: Brazil joins oil bloc ahead of COP30; US ‘pulled’ from IPCC meeting; Cooling cities with ‘smart’ surfaces
- IPCC’s special report on cities is its first with majority-women authorship team
- Infographic: How ‘digital sequence information’ can generate funds for biodiversity
- China Briefing 20 February 2025: Missed climate deadline; Clean-tech’s economic contribution; New renewables pricing system
- Explainer: How China’s renewable pricing reforms will affect its climate goals
- Guest post: How the global ‘water gap’ will grow under climate change
- Analysis: Clean energy contributed a record 10% of China’s GDP in 2024
- The Carbon Brief Profile: Germany
- DeBriefed 14 February 2025: Nearly 95% of countries miss UN climate deadline; 1.5C on horizon; Behind-the-scenes of CB analysis
- Mapped: How extreme weather is destroying crops around the world
- Just 17% of world’s peatlands are protected, new study warns
- China’s construction of new coal-power plants ‘reached 10-year high’ in 2024
- Cropped 12 February 2025: Trump chaos; COP16 leadership in question; How global trade harms forest species
- 分析：2024年中国清洁能源创纪录增长遏制CO2上升
- Germany election 2025: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change
- Guest post: How atmospheric rivers are bringing rain to West Antarctica
- Analysis: 95% of countries miss UN deadline to submit 2035 climate pledges
- DeBriefed 7 February 2025: Hottest January on record; Trump tariffs; UN climate talks star in theatre thriller
- Media response to 2022 IPCC report suggests shift to ‘solutions-based reporting’
- China Briefing 6 February 2025: Emissions halt; ‘Green’ Asian Winter Games; US-China tariff war
- Mapped: How ‘natural’ world heritage sites are threatened by climate extremes
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Wang Can
- Guest post: How climate change is causing ‘ecological grief’ for farmers in Ghana
January 2025
- DeBriefed 31 January 2025: Closing Africa’s power gap; UK needs forest ‘twice size of London’ to offset airport plans; Kenya’s climate refugees
- ‘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
- Analysis: Record surge of clean energy in 2024 halts China’s CO2 rise
- DeBriefed 24 January 2025: Trump leaves Paris Agreement; EU solar outshines coal; Tracing climate fingerprints on tropical storms
- China Briefing 23 January 2025: China’s climate ‘concern’ over Trump; Peak oil debate; China’s energy storage lead
- Q&A: How China became the world’s leading market for energy storage
- EU’s solar and wind growth pushes fossil-fuel power to lowest level in 40 years
- Guest post: How ‘super pollutants’ harm human health and worsen climate change
- 专家：中国2025年能源与气候行动将有哪些期待？
- DeBriefed 17 January 2025: Trump looms; Fossil fuels made LA fires ‘burn hotter’; Has ‘cli-fi’ come of age?
- Met Office: Atmospheric CO2 rise now exceeding IPCC 1.5C pathways
- ‘Multi-year’ droughts have become more frequent, drier and hotter over past 40 years
- 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
- Vacancy: Data analyst
- Media reaction: The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires and the role of climate change
- DeBriefed 10 January 2025: Los Angeles burns; Trump tilts at ‘windmills’; What cricket chirps reveal about rainforest change
- State of the climate: 2024 sets a new record as the first year above 1.5C
- Analysis: UK newspaper editorials attacked Ed Miliband relentlessly throughout 2024
- China Briefing 9 January 2025: 2025 government priorities; China’s first energy law; What to watch in year ahead
- Experts: What to expect from China on energy and climate action in 2025?
- US emissions ‘unchanged’ in 2024 despite coal power at lowest level since 1967
- Interactive: How the world is already adapting to climate change
- DeBriefed 3 January 2025: ‘Decade of deadly heat’; Russian gas cut off; Europe’s forgotten overseas territories and climate change
- Analysis: UK’s electricity was cleanest ever in 2024
December 2024
- Q&A: 中美贸易战对能源转型意味着什么？
- DeBriefed 20 December 2024: Cyclone Chido hits; Coal’s new peak; Africa’s energy transition
- 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
- DeBriefed 13 December 2024: Arctic tundra emitting CO2; UK sets path to ‘clean power’; What climate scientists worry about
- Analysis: How the UK plans to reach clean power by 2030
- China Briefing 12 December 2024: Export controls; Carbon concentration figures; ‘War on sand’
- Record-breaking Philippines typhoon season was ‘supercharged’ by climate change
- Revealed: English farmers received record-high flood relief after last winter’s extreme rain
- Explainer: How China’s renewables rollout boosts its ‘war on sand’
- Q&A: What could a US-China trade war mean for the energy transition?
- DeBriefed 6 December 2024: Plastics talks collapse; $300bn finance goal analysed; Landmark climate case kicks off
- Interview: Prof Philippe Sands on UN court’s landmark climate-change hearing
- Guest post: The conflicting practices in using land to tackle climate change
- Cropped 4 December 2024: Climate talks omit nature; Land COP underway; ‘Frankenchickens’
- Analysis: Why the $300bn climate-finance goal is even less ambitious than it seems
November 2024
- DeBriefed 29 November 2024: COP29 disappoints developing countries; Plastics treaty talks; Brazil’s rocky road to COP30
- China Briefing 28 November 2024: How China approached COP29; Xi cuts energy deals in South America; Solar’s ‘disorderly’ expansion
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Lyu Wenbin and Prof Bai Quan
- Ireland election 2024: What the manifestos say on climate change and energy
- 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
- Q&A: The evolving science of ‘extreme weather attribution’
- Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world
- Webinar: Ask Carbon Brief anything about COP29
- 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
- DeBriefed 8 November 2024: Trump wins; COP16 ‘disarray’; Origin story of ‘$100bn’ climate-finance goal