100 articles from Carbon Brief between August 2021 and January 2022
January 2022
- 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- Cropped, 1 December 2021: Brazilian deforestation soars; Fishing subsidy fights; Indian farm laws repealed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
- Fossil fuel use ‘will peak by 2025’ if countries meet climate pledges, says IEA
- Guest post: What 100,000 studies tell us about climate impacts around the world
- Guest post: An Indigenous peoples’ approach to climate justice
- China Briefing, 7 October 2021: ‘All out’ to beat power shortages; 2050 ‘net-zero’ for airlines; ‘Critical decade” for global warming
- Researchers: The barriers to climate science in the global south
- Experts: Why does ‘climate justice’ matter?
- Climate justice: The challenge of achieving a ‘just transition’ in agriculture
- Analysis: The lack of diversity in climate-science research
- Analysis: Which countries are historically responsible for climate change?
- In-depth Q&A: What is ‘climate justice’?
September 2021
- China Briefing, 30 September 2021: Widespread power cuts; New orders on ‘dual control’; Emissions peak likely ‘before 2028’
- Cropped, 29 September 2021: Food Systems Summit concludes; Farmers on strike; Droughts and food prices
- Guest post: The role ‘emulator’ models play in climate change projections
- Today’s youth will face ‘unmatched’ climate extremes compared to older generations
- Q&A: How did climate change feature at the UN Food Systems Summit?
- China Briefing, 23 September 2021: Xi’s ‘no overseas coal’ pledge; More orders on domestic coal; ‘Ball in China’s court’
- Arctic sea ice summer minimum in 2021 is ‘12th lowest’ on record
- Guest post: How to assess regional climate information for adaptation planning
- China Briefing, 16 September 2021: Xi and Biden discuss climate; Johnson’s ‘last-ditch’ talks with Xi; Advice for China’s carbon goals
- Guest post: The climate-change gaps in the UK school curriculum
- Endangered African montane forests could be a key ‘carbon store’, scientists say
- Guest post: How world’s coal-power pipeline has shrunk by three-quarters
- China Briefing, 9 September 2021: Sharma’s Tianjin trip; Steel production ‘could increase’; ‘Most stringent control’ for ‘dual high’
- Guest post: Reviewing the summer of extreme weather in 2021
- Guest post: How artificial intelligence is fast becoming a key tool for climate science
- China Briefing, 2 September 2021: Kerry meeting Xie in Tianjin; Sharma ‘heading to China’; Lockdown’s impact on climate
- Guest post: Energy needed to eradicate poverty ‘compatible with climate goals’
August 2021
- China Briefing, 26 August 2021: Closed coal mines reopened; Rapid warming for Tibet; ‘Record low’ carbon prices
- China Briefing, 19 August 2021: Kerry ‘to visit China’ again; Explanation of ‘campaign-style carbon reduction’; Emissions ‘administrators’
- Dietary shift to potatoes could cut staple crop emissions in China by 25%
- In-depth Q&A: How will the UK’s hydrogen strategy help achieve net-zero?
- Analysis: China’s post-lockdown emissions surge shows signs of cooling
- IPCC: How the AR6 WG1 summary for policymakers compares to its predecessor
- China Briefing, 12 August 2021: Beijing’s response to IPCC report; Climate ‘blue paper’; Coal price rises
- Media reaction: IPCC’s new climate science report and what it means for the world
- Scientists react: What are the key new insights from the IPCC’s WG1 report?
- Analysis: What the new IPCC report says about when world may pass 1.5C and 2C
- Explainer: What the new IPCC report says about extreme weather and climate change
- In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s sixth assessment report on climate science
- China Briefing, 5 August 2021: New climate instructions; Xie’s latest speech; Flooding death toll surges
- China issues new ‘single-game’ instructions to guide its climate action