100 articles from Carbon Brief between October 2023 and January 2024
January 2024
- Cropped 31 January 2024: French farmers and the far right; Amazon affairs; EU offsetting ban
- Q&A: What progress has been made on protecting nature a year on from COP15?
- Q&A: What does Biden’s LNG ‘pause’ mean for global emissions?
- Guest post: Why 2023 was an exceptional year for Antarctic sea ice
- DeBriefed 26 January 2024: EU eyes ‘ambitious’ 2040 target; IPCC decides on new climate reports; Gender inequality at COPs
- China Briefing 25 January: Clean energy drives growth; ‘Beautiful China’ instructions; Interview with EFC’s Prof Zou Ji
- Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of China’s economic growth in 2023
- IPCC: Governments split on ‘accelerated’ climate reports for next UN global stocktake
- DeBriefed 19 January 2024: John Kerry retires; Uncertainty over UK Labour’s pledge; China’s new climate envoy profiled
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Chris Skidmore
- Cropped 17 January 2024: Norway’s deep-sea disquiet; Panama drought; New species discovered
- Wind and solar capacity in south-east Asia climbs 20% in just one year, report finds
- DeBriefed 12 January: 2023 ‘smashes’ global heat record; UK MP quits over oil and gas; Studying Antarctica’s mammoth icebergs
- State of the Climate: 2023 smashes records for surface temperature and ocean heat
- Analysis: Surge in heat pumps and solar drives record for UK homes in 2023
- Analysis: World will add enough renewables in five years to power US and Canada
- Met Office: A review of the UK’s climate in 2023
- China Briefing 11 January: Expectations for 2024; Top climate negotiator interviewed; NDRC promotes ‘green’ industry
- Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2023
- Analysis: Record opposition to climate action by UK’s right-leaning newspapers in 2023
- DeBriefed 5 January 2024: US offshore wind; UK’s second warmest year; Carbon Brief’s top articles of 2023
- Analysis: UK electricity from fossil fuels drops to lowest level since 1957
December 2023
- DeBriefed 21 December 2023: Major oil auction in US; EU missing targets; Climate change threatens nature’s ‘unique values’
- Cropped 20 December 2023: COP28 special edition
- Guest post: Why ‘jet-streak’ winds will get faster as the climate warms
- Webinar: Carbon Brief journalists discuss COP28’s key outcomes
- COP28 DeBriefed 15 December 2023: Carbon Brief’s key takeaways; Food, forests and nature; Free webinar today
- COP28: Key outcomes for food, forests, land and nature at the UN climate talks in Dubai
- China Briefing 14 December: COP28 special edition
- COP28: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Dubai
- Guest post: What would an ambitious ‘global goal on adaptation’ look like at COP28?
- Guest post: Why some ‘developing’ countries are already among largest climate-finance contributors
- COP28 DeBriefed 8 December 2023: The fight over fossil fuels; Al Jaber defends ‘respect’ for science; Has COP ever finished on time?
- Interactive: The pathways to meeting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit
- Cropped 6 December 2023: COP28 greenwashing; Nature finance; Food pledge
- Q&A: Climate tipping points have put Earth on ‘disastrous trajectory’, says new report
- Q&A: Why defining the ‘phaseout’ of ‘unabated’ fossil fuels is so important at COP28
- Analysis: Growth of Chinese fossil CO2 emissions drives new global record in 2023
- COP28 DeBriefed 1 December 2023: Countries strike loss and damage deal; Oil influence; Key issues to watch
- Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at COP28 climate summit
- Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP28?
November 2023
- China Briefing 30 November: China at COP28; Xi’s ‘unwavering’ climate commitment; Voluntary carbon market restart
- The Carbon Brief Profile: China
- Q&A: How Great Britain’s ‘demand flexibility service’ is cutting costs and CO2 emissions
- Revealed: Colonial rule nearly doubles UK’s historical contribution to climate change
- Revealed: How colonial rule radically shifts historical responsibility for climate change
- DeBriefed 24 November 2023: Fossil fuels under fire on eve of COP28; Record heat from Brazil to South Africa; IEA’s ‘moment of truth’ for oil and gas
- Q&A: What does China’s new methane plan mean for its climate goals?
- Autumn statement 2023: Key climate and energy announcements
- Guest post: Why resolving how land emissions are counted is critical for tracking climate progress
- Cropped 22 November 2023: COP28 curtain-raiser; Food security fear; Dust, bugs and ice
- Q&A: Why deals at COP28 to ‘triple renewables’ and ‘double efficiency’ are crucial for 1.5C
- Interactive: Who wants what at the COP28 climate change summit
- UNEP: Humanity is still ‘breaking all the wrong records’ in fast-warming world
- DeBriefed 17 November 2023: Countries fail 1.5C test; US and China agree on renewables; Why runners care about climate change
- Q&A: What is the ‘global stocktake’ and could it accelerate climate action?
- Q&A: Warming of 2C would trigger ‘catastrophic’ loss of world’s ice, new report says
- China Briefing 16 November: Sunnylands statement; China methane plan; Coal capacity payments
- Lancet report: Heat stress wiped out equivalent of 4% of Africa’s GDP in 2022
- The Carbon Brief Quiz 2023
- Analysis: China’s emissions set to fall in 2024 after record growth in clean energy
- DeBriefed 10 November 2023: Loss-and-damage fund; UNEP warns of petrostate plans; Solar’s forgotten kidnapping
- Cropped 8 November 2023: ‘Hidden costs’ of food; Gas auction controversy; Looking towards COP28
- Climate change: Intensity of ongoing drought in Syria, Iraq and Iran ‘not rare anymore’
- Q&A: The fight over the ‘loss-and-damage fund’ for climate change
- Guest post: How 120 of the world’s major cities could cut transport CO2 by 22%
- DeBriefed 3 November 2023: King at COP28; 1.5C in ‘rearview mirror’; Life of ‘climate revolutionary’ Prof Saleemul Huq
- China Briefing 2 November: Fossil fuel peak in 2024; Graphite curbs; Xie to ‘retire’
- Guest post: Three major gaps in climate-adaptation finance for developing countries
- Q&A: What the ‘underwhelming’ Three Basins Summit means for tropical forests
October 2023
- How to follow Carbon Brief’s WhatsApp channel
- Vacancy: Multimedia producer
- DeBriefed 27 October 2023: Antarctic ice melt ‘unavoidable’; EV factcheck; China-Russia fossil fuel trade
- Analysis: Global CO2 emissions could peak as soon as 2023, IEA data reveals
- Guest post: Why all fossil fuels must decline rapidly to stay below 1.5C
- Cropped 25 October 2023: Agri-disasters costing trillions; Bankrolling deforestation; COP15 official finale
- Analysis: Africa’s extreme weather has killed at least 15,000 people in 2023
- Guest post: Fixing the gaps in England’s ‘biodiversity net-gain’ policy
- Factcheck: 21 misleading myths about electric vehicles
- State of the climate: Global temperatures throughout mid-2023 shatter records
- Analysis: UK ‘adds’ £450m to its climate-finance spending by changing definition
- DeBriefed 20 October 2023: Earth’s hottest year ‘for millennia’; Countries set out stall on fossil fuels; Saving shrinking Lake Chad
- China Briefing 19 October: BRI funding; coal job losses; extreme weather damage
- Lough Neagh: How climate change intensified toxic algae on the UK’s largest lake
- Rubber drives ‘at least twice’ as much deforestation as previously thought
- Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2023
- Analysis: ‘Greater than 99% chance’ 2023 will be hottest year on record
- DeBriefed 13 October 2023: Israel and Hamas conflict hits oil prices; 1.5C ‘breached’; Lessons from India’s flash floods
- Revealed: Tenth of UK’s climate-aid spending goes via private consultancies
- Cropped 11 October 2023: Amazon dolphin deaths; EU agri round-up; ‘Exploitative’ carbon offsets
- Analysis: How the UK has fallen 40% behind on its £11.6bn climate-finance pledge
- Analysis: How the UK has spent its foreign aid on climate change since 2011
- Kew report: Five key extinction risks facing the world’s plants and fungi
- Experts: How will the next decade of China’s ‘belt and road initiative’ impact climate action?
- DeBriefed 6 October 2023: ‘Gobsmackingly bananas’ global heat; EU’s carbon border tax; UK solar claims factchecked
- China Briefing 5 October: EV investigation; Forest rules; BRI and climate
- World’s electricity supply close to ‘peak emissions’ due to growth of wind and solar
- Drying of Amazon could be early warning of ‘tipping point’ for the rainforest
- In-depth Q&A: What food waste means for climate change
- Guest post: How heat pumps became a Nordic success story