100 articles from Carbon Brief between October 2021 and March 2022
March 2022
- China Briefing, 24 March 2022: 14FYP energy plan; More plans on energy storage and hydrogen; China’s emissions analysis
- Spring statement 2022: Key climate and energy announcements
- Cropped, 23 March 2022: War sparks food security fears; Geneva biodiversity talks; Mass coral bleaching
- Arctic sea ice winter peak in 2022 is 10th lowest on record
- Guest post: Why estimates of the ‘cost’ of climate action are overly pessimistic
- China Briefing, 17 March 2022: Beijing ‘doubling down on fossil fuels’; China’s CO2 emissions increase; Coal production growth
- ‘Imminent’ tipping point threatening Europe’s permafrost peatlands
- China Briefing, 10 March 2022: Changes to energy targets; Xi’s coal directives; Analysis on ‘record high’ coal consumption
- Cropped, 9 March 2022: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; IPCC report; Palm oil deforestation plunge
- Guest post: In conflict and peace, what drives deforestation in Colombia?
- Declining ‘resilience’ pushing Amazon rainforest towards tipping point
- China Briefing, 3 March 2022: Impacts of Ukraine invasion; Annual statistical report; Bitcoin ‘getting even dirtier’
- Guest post: Why gender justice matters in the transition away from coal
- Scientists react: What are the key new insights from the IPCC’s WG2 report?
- Guest post: How heat pump sales are starting to take off around the world
February 2022
- In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s sixth assessment on how climate change impacts the world
- Q&A: What does Russia’s invasion of Ukraine mean for energy and climate change?
- Guest post: How to model society’s response to climate change
- Using land to tackle climate change could have ‘adverse impacts’ on global hunger
- China Briefing, 24 February 2022: New economics measures; Assessing China’s climate pledges; Coal plant research
- Factcheck: Can new UK oil and gas licences ever be ‘climate compatible’?
- Cropped, 23 February 2022: World financing ‘own extinction’; Catastrophic wildfires; Ethanol emissions
- Guest post: Is China living up to its pledges on climate change and energy transition?
- China Briefing, 17 February 2022: New energy transition guidance; Five coal plants approved; Energy-efficiency targets raised
- Guest post: How much could restoring forests reduce India’s emissions?
- Oil majors ‘not walking the talk’ on climate action, study confirms
- Eradicating ‘extreme poverty’ would raise global emissions by less than 1%
- Guest post: Why does the Arctic warm faster than the rest of the planet?
- Mapped: African world heritage sites threatened by sea level rise ‘to triple by 2050’
- China Briefing, 10 February 2022: ‘Green’ Olympics; Steel industry instructions; Beijing-Moscow energy deal
- Analysis: How China is powering the Winter Olympics 2022 in Beijing
- Cropped, 9 February 2022: Food security fears; ‘Crypto’ carbon markets; Indigenous victories
- China Briefing, 3 February 2022: Power market reform; ‘Energy-conserving’ 14FYP scheme; Xi’s trip to coal province
- Guest post: Does renewable energy threaten efforts to conserve biodiversity on land?
- Revealed: The 11 slides that finally convinced Boris Johnson about global warming
- Last refuges for coral reefs to disappear above 1.5C of global warming, study finds
January 2022
- US flooding increase will ‘disproportionately’ impact black and low-income groups
- China Briefing, 27 January 2022: Surge in offshore wind; Xi’s new speech; IEA’s report
- Coffee, cashew and avocado growers will be ‘seriously affected’ by climate change
- Cropped, 26 January 2022: Agribusiness-linked deforestation; India’s forest plantations; European agriculture policy
- Guest post: Why oceans could face more extremes like the Pacific ‘Blob’
- Climate-adaptation funds have not reached half of ‘most vulnerable’ nations, study finds
- China Briefing, 20 January 2022: ‘Record-high’ coal output; Winter Olympics 2022; Xi’s new directives
- Vacancy: China specialist at Carbon Brief
- Analysis: Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £2.5bn to UK energy bills
- Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2021
- State of the climate: How the world warmed in 2021
- Cropped, 12 January 2022: Brazilian deforestation; Wildfires rage; UK ‘rewilding’ scheme
- Guest post: How the Keeling Curve will need to bend to limit global warming to 1.5C
- Met Office: A review of the UK’s climate in 2021
- Rich nations could see ‘double climate dividend’ by switching to plant-based foods
- Coal and trucks pushed US ‘further off track’ for climate targets in 2021
- Analysis: UK nuclear output falls to lowest level since 1982
- China Briefing, 6 January 2022: New ‘giant’ coal power plant; Hottest year on record; HFC policy
December 2021
- China Briefing, 23 December 2021: Analysis of Beijing’s new pledge; Interview with senior advisers; Economic planning meeting
- Guest post: How weather forecasts can spark a new kind of extreme-event attribution
- 深掘りQ&A: 気候科学に関するIPCCの第6次評価報告書
- Global warming will make undocumented migration into US ‘increasingly dangerous’
- Q&A: What does China’s new Paris Agreement pledge mean for climate change?
- Cropped, 15 December 2021: Land and water report; Agribusiness investigations; Rainforest roundup
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Wang Yi and Prof Wang Zhongying
- Guest post: Are the world’s peatlands better protected after COP26?
- Q&A: What does the new German coalition government mean for climate change?
- China Briefing, 2 December 2021: Quarterly emissions fall; Power shortages’ impact; China-Russia energy cooperation
- Climate change not the main driver of Madagascar food crisis, scientists find
- Cropped, 1 December 2021: Brazilian deforestation soars; Fishing subsidy fights; Indian farm laws repealed
- Q&A: Can ‘nature-based solutions’ help address climate change?
November 2021
- Avoiding temperature ‘overshoot’ reduces multiple climate change risks, say scientists
- Guest post: How COP26 finally recognised the latest IPCC climate science
- Melting Arctic sea ice linked to ‘worsening fire hazards’ in western US
- Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions see first quarterly fall since post-lockdown surge
- The Carbon Brief Quiz 2021
- China Briefing, 18 November 2021: Xi-Biden meeting; Methane emissions; ‘Historic new high’ for coal
- Guest post: How hourly rainfall extremes are changing in a warming climate
- Cropped, 17 November 2021: Deforestation declarations; Food systems; Nature-based solutions
- COP26: Key outcomes for food, forests, land use and nature in Glasgow
- Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2021
- COP26: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Glasgow
- COP26 video: What is the one key outcome you want to see at COP26?
- China Briefing, 11 November 2021: US-China Glasgow declaration; Calls for ‘concrete actions’; Xi’s absence at COP26
- Analysis: Do COP26 promises keep global warming below 2C?
- Carbon Brief Quiz 2021: Round 3 – Energy sankeys
- Global CO2 emissions have been flat for a decade, new data reveals
- Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP26?
- Guest post: The Global Methane Pledge needs to go further to help limit warming to 1.5C
October 2021
- Interactive: Who wants what at the COP26 climate change summit
- China Briefing, 28 October 2021: ‘1+N’; Xi’s energy instruction; Climate ‘white paper’
- Autumn budget 2021: Key climate and energy announcements
- Cropped, 27 October 2021: COP26; Committee on World Food Security meets; Climate change in Africa
- Analysis: How delegations at COP climate summits have changed over time
- UNEP: Current climate commitments are ‘weak promises, not yet delivered’
- Analysis: Why climate-finance ‘flows’ are falling short of $100bn pledge
- Analysis: Nine key moments that changed China’s mind about climate change
- China Briefing, 21 October 2021: ‘Power woes may worsen’; Xi ‘not expected to join’ COP26; UK-China climate ties
- In-depth Q&A: The UK’s net-zero strategy
- In-depth Q&A: How will the UK’s ‘heat and buildings strategy’ help achieve net-zero?
- State of the climate: Summer 2021 sets new high for average land temperature
- China Briefing, 14 October 2021: Instructions to tackle power shortages; COP15 opens; Carbon-neutrality standards
- Analysis: How power shortages might ‘accelerate’ China’s climate action
- Cropped, 13 October 2021: Biodiversity COP; Palm oil investigation; Food shortages