100 articles from Carbon Brief between June 2020 and January 2021
January 2021
- Lake heatwaves will be ‘hotter and longer’ by the end of the century
- Guest post: Refining the remaining 1.5C ‘carbon budget’
- Q&A: What does the Brexit deal say about climate change and energy?
- State of the climate: 2020 ties as warmest year on record
- Climate change could have a ‘profound’ negative impact on child malnourishment
- Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2020
- Met Office: A review of the UK’s climate in 2020
- Analysis: Which countries met the UN’s 2020 deadline to raise ‘climate ambition’?
- Guest post: How to ‘fairly’ share emissions from goods traded around the world
December 2020
- Guest post: How human activity threatens the world’s carbon-rich peatlands
- Analysis: Why the new Met Office temperature record shows faster warming since 1970s
- In-depth Q&A: How does the UK’s ‘energy white paper’ aim to tackle climate change?
- New climate models suggest faster melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet
- Tackling gender inequality is ‘crucial’ for climate adaptation
- Analysis: China’s new 2030 targets promise more low-carbon power than meets the eye
- Global Carbon Project: Coronavirus causes ‘record fall’ in fossil-fuel emissions in 2020
- UNEP: Net-zero pledges provide an ‘opening’ to close growing emissions ‘gap’
- CCC: UK must cut emissions ‘78% by 2035’ to be on course for net-zero goal
- 分析：中国粗钢产量激增，助推二氧化碳排放量创下历史新高
- Emissions cuts in line with Paris Agreement would see benefits ‘within two decades’
- Analysis: When might the world exceed 1.5C and 2C of global warming?
- Analysis: Surge in China’s steel production helps to fuel record-high CO2 emissions
- Guest post: Investigating climate change’s ‘humidity paradox’
November 2020
- Guest post: Why climate change will cause more ‘strong’ Indian Ocean Dipole events
- In-depth Q&A: Does the world need hydrogen to solve climate change?
- Guest post: The perils of counter-intuitive design in IPCC graphics
- Media reaction: Boris Johnson’s ‘10-point’ net-zero plan for 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
October 2020
- Guest post: How declining ice in clouds makes high ‘climate sensitivity’ plausible
- Mapped: How climate change disproportionately affects women’s health
- The Carbon Brief Quiz 2020
- State of the climate: 2020 on course to be warmest year on record
- 高影响力学者揭示中国如何达成“碳中和”目标
- Guest post: Demand for cooling is blind spot for climate and sustainable development
- Guest post: How the global coronavirus stimulus could put Paris Agreement on track
- Influential academics reveal how China can achieve its ‘carbon neutrality’ goal
- Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA
- Nitrogen fertiliser use could ‘threaten global climate goals’
- 分析：中国“后新冠”化石燃料重点项目三倍于“低碳”
- Guest post: How ‘urban heat islands’ will intensify heatwaves in UK cities
September 2020
- Greenland to lose ice far faster this century than in the past 12,000 years
- US election tracker 2020: Democrats and Republicans on energy and climate
- 分析：在2060年实现“碳中和”可使中国“更富足”
- Guest post: The oceans are absorbing more carbon than previously thought
- Vacancy: China specialist at Carbon Brief
- Analysis: Going carbon neutral by 2060 ‘will make China richer’
- US sees ‘alarming’ increase in combined heatwaves and droughts
- Analysis: China’s Covid stimulus plans for fossil fuels three times larger than low-carbon
- Arctic sea ice shrinks to second-lowest summer minimum on record
- Guest post: Calculating the true climate impact of aviation emissions
- Guest post: Are low- and middle-income countries bound to eat more meat?
- Webinar: Do we need to stop eating meat and dairy to tackle climate change?
- Guest post: Coronavirus food waste comes with huge carbon footprint
- Experts: How do diets need to change to meet climate targets?
- Analysis: World has already passed ‘peak oil’, BP figures reveal
- In-depth Q&A: What does the global shift in diets mean for climate change?
- Interactive: What is the climate impact of eating meat and dairy?
- Met Office: The UK’s record-breaking August 2020 heatwave
- Q&A: How the ‘climate assembly’ says the UK should reach net-zero
- Guest post: Why would anyone finance another coal power plant in China?
- Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2020
- Guest post: Why does land warm up faster than the oceans?
August 2020
- Guest post: How climate change is turning glaciers into lakes
- Guest post: Learning from the contentious history of ‘carbon removal’
- Wind and solar are 30-50% cheaper than thought, admits UK government
- Vacancy: Journalist at Carbon Brief
- Guest post: Are European cities delivering on their climate commitments?
- Tree planting can help tropical forests ‘recover 50% faster’ from logging
- 分析：2020年全球煤电容量首次下降
- Coronavirus: Green recovery ‘could prevent 0.3C’ of warming by 2050
- ‘Extreme’ glacier loss events linked to human-caused climate change for first time
- Analysis: The global coal fleet shrank for first time on record in 2020
July 2020
- State of the climate: 2020 set to be first or second warmest year on record
- In-depth: Hydrogen ‘required’ to meet UK net-zero goal, says National Grid
- Guest post: The era of ‘negative-subsidy’ offshore wind power has almost arrived
- Guest post: Who should be responsible for removing CO2 from the atmosphere?
- Webinar: Is climate change making wildfires worse?
- Guest post: Why low-end ‘climate sensitivity’ can now be ruled out
- Siberia’s 2020 heatwave made ‘600 times more likely’ by climate change
- Scientists concerned by ‘record high’ global methane emissions
- Explainer: How climate change is affecting wildfires around the world
- Guest post: Why Africa’s heatwaves are a forgotten impact of climate change
- Guest post: Global warming edges closer to Paris Agreement 1.5C limit
- Guest post: Where in the UK might be suitable for BECCS?
- Guest post: How public attitudes towards ‘CO2 removal’ differ in the UK and US
- Scientists discover new ‘human fingerprint’ on global drought patterns
- Guest post: How ‘discourses of delay’ are used to slow climate action
- Explainer: How the rise and fall of CO2 levels influenced the ice ages
June 2020
- Risk of 40C heat in the UK ‘rapidly increasing’, says Met Office
- Scientists shed light on human causes of North Atlantic’s ‘cold blob’
- South pole warmed ‘three times faster’ than global average over past 30 years
- Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions surged past pre-coronavirus levels in May
- Guest post: How climate change misinformation spreads online
- CCC: UK risks ‘egg on face’ unless it accelerates climate plans
- Land purchases by private companies accelerate tropical deforestation, data shows
- In-depth: BP data reveals clean electricity matched coal for the first time in 2019
- IEA: ‘Green’ coronavirus recovery would keep global emissions below 2019 peak
- Coronavirus: Tracking how the world’s ‘green recovery’ plans aim to cut emissions