100 articles from Carbon Brief between May 2024 and August 2024
August 2024
- Climate change made ‘monsoon downpour’ behind Kerala landslides 10% more intense
- 国际能源署：热泵可帮助中国减少75%为建筑供暖而产生的碳排放
- DeBriefed 9 August 2024: China’s first quarterly emissions fall since Covid; Harris chooses ‘climate vice president’; Athletes feel the heat
- China Briefing 8 August 2024: Record extreme weather; First quarterly CO2 fall since Covid; ‘Dual control’ of carbon emissions
- Climate change made the ‘supercharged’ 2024 Pantanal wildfires 40% more intense
- Analysis: China’s CO2 falls 1% in Q2 2024 in first quarterly drop since Covid-19
- IPCC meeting in Sofia fails to agree timeline for seventh assessment report
- ‘Critical turning point’ for coal poses risks for China’s state power firms, says report
- Analysis: UK could approve 13 new oil and gas projects despite North Sea pledge
- DeBriefed 2 August 2024: Deadly rains from India to Sudan; ‘Fossil-fuelled’ heat hits Olympics; Tuvalu’s plan to be first ‘digital nation’
- Heat pumps could help cut China’s building CO2 emissions by 75%, says IEA
- Rural ‘buffer ring’ can reduce urban heat island effect by more than 0.5C
- ‘Every 0.1C’ of overshoot above 1.5C increases risk of crossing tipping points
July 2024
- Cropped 31 July 2024: Deep-sea mining talks; UN hunger report; Venezuela election and the Amazon
- Q&A: What does deep-sea mining mean for climate change and biodiversity loss?
- Vacancy: Section Editor (Science)
- Net-zero transition will deliver at least ‘£164bn in benefits’ to UK
- DeBriefed 26 July 2024: Biden’s ‘climate legacy’; Global wildfires; Life in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’
- Study offers new policy tool for considering ‘Indigenous climate justice’
- China Briefing 25 July 2024: ‘Third plenum’ outcomes; ‘Low-carbon’ coal plants; EU probes wind subsidies
- State of the climate: 2024 now very likely to be warmest year on record
- 分析：中国清洁能源发展使五月燃煤发电份额降至53%的历史低点
- DeBriefed 19 July 2024: New political players in EU and US; UK govt urged to make up ‘lost ground’ on targets; AI’s climate impact
- Guest post: The growing problem of how extreme heat damages mental health
- Q&A: What China’s push for ‘new quality productive forces’ means for climate action
- CCC: Labour must ‘make up lost ground’ to hit UK climate goals
- ‘Significant shift’ away from coal as most new steelmaking is now electric
- Cropped 17 July 2024: Climate change and wine; Seabed mining talks; Argentina’s beef habit
- Q&A: Can debt-for-nature ‘swaps’ help tackle biodiversity loss and climate change?
- Guest post: Tracking G7 climate progress with data from 116,095 power plants
- DeBriefed 12 July 2024: 12 consecutive months above 1.5C; Labour sets UK climate agenda; West Africa’s fishing crisis
- China Briefing 11 July 2024: ‘Wartime’ flooding emergency; EU tariff impact; Record-low coal share
- Webinar: What are the key climate priorities for the new UK government?
- Analysis: China’s clean energy pushes coal to record-low 53% share of power in May 2024
- Experts: What is the Labour government’s top priority for meeting UK climate targets?
- Q&A: How Denmark plans to tax agriculture emissions to meet climate goals
- Q&A：中国如何适应日益频繁的洪灾
- Interactive: Labour government’s in-tray for climate change, energy and nature
- DeBriefed 5 July 2024: Key climate MPs in new UK parliament; Hurricane Beryl; Biden calls deniers ‘really, really dumb’
- Cropped 3 July 2024: Brazil wetlands blaze; Denmark agri carbon tax; Heat and drought hit crops
- Tropical forest degradation due to ‘edge effects’ is 200% higher than thought
June 2024
- DeBriefed 28 June 2024: Global floods; Heat deaths uncertainty; India’s climate protest music
- Q&A: How China is adapting to increasingly frequent flooding
- Q&A: What does the ‘landmark’ Horse Hill judgment mean for UK fossil fuels?
- Q&A: The state of the UK’s ‘food security’ in a fast-warming world
- Factcheck: How ‘scary-sounding numbers’ are being used to mislead the UK about net-zero
- China Briefing 27 June 2024: Extreme weather; New talks on EV tariffs; Coal power decline
- Élections législatives Françaises 2024: Que disent les programmes sur l’énergie et le changement climatique
- Negative emissions: Scientists debate role of CO2 removal in tackling climate change
- Analysis: UK misses tree-planting targets by forest the ‘size of Birmingham’
- France election 2024: What the manifestos say on energy and climate
- Guest post: The critical role of ‘grounding zones’ in the retreat of Earth’s ice sheets
- DeBriefed 21 June 2024: Deadly heat grips globe; Cost of cutting ‘green crap’ in UK; Rewilding with beavers
- Analysis: Wind and solar added more to global energy than any other source in 2023
- Cropped 19 June 2024: Why food prices are spiking; Bonn climate talks; Plunging polar bear populations
- Experts: What is causing food prices to spike around the world?
- Analysis: Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015
- DeBriefed 14 June 2024: Bonn climate talks; When Earth could breach 1.5C; How polluter taxes could raise climate funds
- Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2024 UN climate conference
- China Briefing 13 June 2024: EU EV tariffs; Grid buildout; US-China subnational climate cooperation
- Analysis: What record global heat means for breaching the 1.5C warming limit
- Afghanistan’s ‘deadly’ early spring rainfall made twice as likely by El Niño
- Agriculture ‘major driver’ of rise in nitrous oxide emissions over past 40 years
- Experts: What do the European elections mean for EU climate action?
- 分析：月度碳排放量下降或表明中国已在2023年碳达峰
- UK election 2024: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change
- DeBriefed 7 June 2024: Sheinbaum and Modi elected; Hottest May; Factchecking net-zero costs
- Analysis: UK climate aid reaches record £1.8bn in 2023 after loosening rules
- Cropped 5 June 2024: Sudan famine ‘imminent’; Pandemic treaty drags on; US backs offsets with ‘integrity’
- Better refrigeration could avoid almost 2bn tonnes of CO2 per year from food loss
- Guest post: Tracking the unprecedented impact of humans on the climate
- Nine key takeaways about the ‘state of CO2 removal’ in 2024
- 嘉宾来稿：中国能源系统如何在2055年前实现碳中和
May 2024
- DeBriefed 31 May 2024: 52C in South Asia; Biden’s carbon offsets overhaul; Tell us what you think
- Analysis: European power-sector emissions fall by 20% since last EU election
- China Briefing 30 May 2024: March emissions drop; ‘United’ G7 stance on ‘overcapacity’; Li Shuo on climate finance
- Interview: China’s position on ‘international climate finance’ ahead of COP29
- Rich countries met $100bn climate-finance goal by ‘relabelling existing aid’
- Guest post: The role of ‘blue carbon’ in addressing climate change
- 嘉宾来稿：满足中国增长的用电需求 光伏加储能“比新建煤电更实惠”
- Analysis: Monthly drop hints that China’s CO2 emissions may have peaked in 2023
- DeBriefed 24 May 2024: ‘Surprise’ UK election; Oceans court ruling; China and Russia’s fossil-fuel pact
- EU election 2024: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change
- Dual impact of extreme heat and Covid-19 had ‘deadly consequences’ for UK
- Cropped 22 May 2024: Farmland ‘grabbing’; Ocean court ‘victory’ for small islands; Pre-COP16 talks
- South Africa election 2024: What the manifestos say on energy and climate
- Q&A: The evolving debate about using genetically modified crops in a warming world
- Guest post: Heat pumps gained European market share in 2023 despite falling sales
- Experts: What are the biggest geopolitical risks to climate action in 2024?
- DeBriefed 17 May 2024: Biden’s clean-energy tariff blitz; Modi’s coal plans examined; Deadly heat in Mexico
- Discriminatory ‘redlining’ increases climate risk in disadvantaged US neighbourhoods
- Clean cooking: What new global pledge means for climate, nature and gender goals
- China Briefing 16 May 2024: Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs; State media pushback; Xi’s Europe trip
- Interview: China’s renewables ‘pave the way to rapidly reduce coal reliance’
- Guest post: How China’s energy system can reach carbon neutrality before 2055
- Analysis: Benefits of UK ‘sustainable aviation fuel’ will be wiped out by rising demand
- English schools face ‘overheating’ for one-third of year under 2C warming
- EU spending up to €48bn on nature-harming activities each year, report says
- Q&A: What do India’s elections mean for coal communities and climate change?
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Octopus Energy’s Greg Jackson