100 articles from Carbon Brief between September 2017 and February 2018

February 2018

• Every five-year delay in meeting Paris goals could ‘add 20cm’ to global sea levels
• Guest post: How ‘enhanced weathering’ could slow climate change and boost crop yields
• Animals with white winter camouflage could struggle to adapt to climate change
• Small drones could be better for climate than delivery trucks, says study
• Carbon emissions from Amazon wildfires could ‘counteract’ deforestation decline
• Acidification could leave oceans ‘uninhabitable’ for cold-water corals
• New study questions impact of ending fossil fuel subsidies
• Long-term climate variability ‘could fall’ as the world warms
• In-depth: Renewables are ‘key’ to lower UK industrial electricity prices
• Polar bears could be struggling to catch enough prey, study shows

January 2018

• Negative emissions have ‘limited potential’ to help meet climate goals
• The EU got less electricity from coal than renewables in 2017
• Rainforests: Scientists concerned climate change is altering the tropical life cycle
• Q&A: How will China’s new carbon trading scheme work?
• State of the climate: how the world warmed in 2017
• Climate change and deforestation threaten world’s largest tropical peatland
• Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2017
• Geoengineering carries ‘large risks’ for the natural world, studies show
• Explainer: What climate models tell us about future rainfall
• Guest post: Why clouds hold the key to better climate models
• New study ‘reduces uncertainty’ for climate sensitivity
• In-depth: Scientists discuss how to improve climate models
• UK will miss climate goals despite new strategy, says official watchdog
• Timeline: The history of climate modelling
• Q&A: How do climate models work?
• China leading on world’s clean energy investment, says report
• Analysis: UK government slashes outlook for new gas power plants
• El Niño causes West Antarctica’s ice shelves to gain height yet lose mass
• Severe coral reef bleaching now ‘five times more frequent’ than 40 years ago
• Analysis: Low-carbon sources generated more UK electricity than fossil fuels in 2017

December 2017

• 2017: Carbon Brief’s end-of-year review
• Guest post: Bioenergy ‘flaw’ under EU renewable target could raise emissions
• Deforestation and drought threaten carbon storage in Borneo’s rainforests
• IEA says world coal demand will rise, despite slashing forecast growth in India
• Analysis: Why scientists think 100% of global warming is due to humans
• Climate change ‘tripled chances’ of Hurricane Harvey’s record rain
• Shipping industry must take ‘urgent action’ to meet Paris climate goals
• Germans most worried about climate change, analysis shows
• UK wind power potential could fall by 10% by 2100 because of climate change
• Solar, wind and nuclear have ‘amazingly low’ carbon footprints, study finds
• Q&A: Will the reformed EU Emissions Trading System raise carbon prices?
• Guest post: Is gas a bridge to nowhere for UK climate policy?
• UK could cut food emissions by 17% by sticking to a healthy diet
• Guest post: Trees are the dominant source of methane emissions in Amazon wetlands
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Dr Bill Hare

November 2017

• Analysis: How developing nations are driving record growth in solar power
• Guest post: ‘Keeping lights on’ is not just about increasing supply
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Dr Katharine Hayhoe
• Autumn Budget 2017: Key climate and energy announcements
• COP23 video: Three need-to-knows from the UN climate talks in Bonn
• COP23: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Bonn
• COP23 video: What needs to happen by COP24 to keep the Paris Agreement on track?
• In-depth: IEA predicts rise of cheap renewables and China’s move away from coal
• COP23 video: Does Donald Trump make limiting global warming to 1.5C impossible?
• Unregulated solar geoengineering could spark droughts and hurricanes, study warns
• Shifting storms under climate change could bring wilder winters to the UK
• Analysis: Global CO2 emissions set to rise 2% in 2017 after three-year ‘plateau’
• State of the climate: 2017 shaping up to be warmest ‘non-El Niño’ year
• Guest post: How China has reduced the carbon footprint of developed countries
• Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP23?
• Mapped: Where multilateral climate funds spend their money
• Analysis: WRI data suggests emissions have already ‘peaked’ in 49 countries
• Rapid CO2 cuts could allow some cool-water corals to adapt to global warming

October 2017

• UNEP: Six crucial actions to help close the world’s ‘emissions gap’
• Impact of climate change on health is ‘the major threat of 21st century’
• Guest post: Who will deliver the negative emissions needed to avoid 2C warming?
• Guest post: Dieter Helm’s review is not as radical as it might first appear
• Reaction: Dieter Helm’s ‘least cost’ ideas for meeting the UK’s climate targets
• Climate change threatens the survival of Madagascar’s bamboo lemurs
• Analysis: How could the Agung volcano in Bali affect global temperatures?
• Study: Ending extreme poverty and limiting warming to 2C still possible
• New York City could face damaging floods ‘every five years’ in a warmer climate
• In-depth: How will climate change affect animal sex ratios?
• Renewables will give more people access to electricity than coal, says IEA
• California’s new law aims to tackle imported emissions
• Guest Post: How IPCC graphics could be made more accessible
• In-depth: How the ‘Clean Growth Strategy’ hopes to deliver UK climate goals
• Geoengineering: Scientists in Berlin debate radical ways to reverse global warming
• The Carbon Brief Quiz 2017
• Mapped: How the US generates electricity
• Guest post: Interpreting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C temperature limit
• Mapped: How UK foreign aid is spent on climate change
• Hyperthermals: What can they tell us about modern global warming?
• Analysis: How well have climate models projected global warming?
• IEA: Renewable electricity set to grow 40% globally by 2022
• Grass-fed beef will not help tackle climate change, report finds
• World can meet growing food demands and limit warming to 1.5C, study says

September 2017

• Analysis: What does revised methane data mean for the Paris Agreement?
• Tropical forests are ‘no longer carbon sinks’ because of human activity
• Guest post: Authors respond to misinterpretations of their 1.5C carbon budget paper
• Report lays out vision for ‘ambitious’ UK energy efficiency plan
• German election 2017: Where the parties stand on energy and climate change
• Factcheck: Climate models have not ‘exaggerated’ global warming
• Arctic sea ice summer minimum in 2017 is eighth lowest on record
• Guest post: Why the 1.5C warming limit is not yet a geophysical impossibility
• Guest post: What will be in the next IPCC climate change assessment
• Limiting global warming to 1.5C could save two-thirds of Asia’s glacier ice
• Media reaction: Hurricane Irma and climate change
• Coffee faces dual threat of farmland loss and bee decline in a warmer climate
• Analysis: UK auction reveals offshore wind cheaper than new gas