100 articles from Carbon Brief between December 2015 and April 2016

April 2016

• Rising CO2 has ‘greened’ world’s plants and trees
• Guest post: Understanding CO2 fertilisation and climate change
• Video: Maritime experts on the need to reduce shipping emissions
• Arctic sea ice could ‘shrink to record low’ this summer, say scientists
• Scientists compare climate change impacts at 1.5C and 2C
• UK taxpayers handed Shell $123m in 2015
• Feeding the world: Can we preserve forests, go organic and eat meat?
• Mapped: How China dominates the global wind energy market
• Explainer: The adoption, signing and ratification of the UN climate deal
• Analysis: Is the UK relying on ‘negative emissions’ to meet its climate targets?
• The IPCC’s priorities for the next six years: 1.5C, oceans, cities and food security
• Guest post: Do we need BECCS to avoid dangerous climate change?
• Analysis: UK solar generation tops coal for the first time
• Timeline: How BECCS became climate change’s ‘saviour’ technology
• In-depth: Experts assess the feasibility of ‘negative emissions’
• ‘Disenfranchised’ small islands to become increasingly arid
• Explainer: 10 ways ‘negative emissions’ could slow climate change
• Analysis: the ‘highly unusual’ behaviour of Arctic sea ice in 2016
• Factcheck: Are climate models ‘wrong’ on rainfall extremes?
• The 35 countries cutting the link between economic growth and emissions
• Guest post: Understanding the government’s capacity market
• Explainer: Is climate change good news for the UK wine industry?

March 2016

• UK emissions lowest since the 1920s as renewables overtake coal
• New coal plants rise in 2015 despite falling consumption
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Tom Greatrex
• Seven charts show how renewable investment broke records in 2015
• Guest post: Failure to tackle food demand could make 1.5C limit unachievable
• England’s growing season now almost a month longer, says Met Office
• Climate change brings early grape harvests for French wine
• China is responsible for 10% of human influence on climate change, study says
• Shrinking of forest carbon sink under climate change may be ‘less than anticipated’
• Budget 2016: key climate and energy announcements
• Sea level rise could put 13m Americans at risk of flooding by 2100
• Cuts in Europe’s air pollution have boosted Arctic warming by 0.5C
• In-depth: the scientific challenge of extreme weather attribution
• Analysis: The legacy of the Fukushima nuclear disaster
• Mapped: The world’s nuclear power plants
• Climate change threatens staple crops in Africa, study says
• UK needs a ‘smart power revolution’, says Infrastructure Commission
• Carbon Briefly: Peter Stott
• Investor confidence in UK energy policy has ‘dipped’, warn MPs
• Mapped: How climate change will slow progress towards curbing malnutrition

February 2016

• Huge divide in spending on climate change adaptation across world’s megacities
• Analysis: Decline in China’s coal consumption accelerates
• Analysis: UK emissions fall again after record drop in coal use in 2015
• Ocean acidification: Decline of Great Barrier Reef likely to be worse than feared
• UK needs an ‘Energiewende’, says energy industry chief
• Cutting emissions could prevent nearly 300,000 US air pollution deaths
• EU referendum opinion tracker: energy and climate change
• Interactive: How satellites are used to monitor climate change
• Mapped: The sensitivity of the world’s ecosystems to climate
• Interactive: How the global oil trade is changing
• Explainer: Europe’s struggle to switch on low-carbon heating
• Heathrow 13: Prof Alice Bows-Larkin’s expert evidence on aviation and climate change
• How death of US Supreme Court judge might affect Clean Power Plan
• Analysis: How BP’s energy outlook has changed after the Paris agreement
• Water stored on land stopped recent sea level rise being up to 22% higher
• Who’s hitting the EU’s 2020 renewables target — and who’s holding it back?
• Countdown to 2025: Tracking the UK coal phase out
• Gas without carbon capture puts UK climate goals at risk, say MPs
• Sea level research says only a ‘brief window’ to cut emissions
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Valérie Masson-Delmotte
• US seafood species highly vulnerable to climate change, study says
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Lisa Nandy
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Matthew Bell
• Climate change boosted odds of UK 2013-14 wet winter by 43%
• Explainer: how surface and satellite temperature records compare

January 2016

• CCC: No need to tighten UK’s carbon budgets, despite Paris climate deal
• Analysis: Hinkley delay could put UK carbon budgets at further risk
• Analysis: The UK’s ‘looming’ electricity supply gap
• Energy in 2016: five highlights from World Bank commodities report
• Analysis: How much did El Niño boost global temperature in 2015?
• New study tracks nitrogen footprint of products made for export
• US could cut power emissions 78% by 2030 using existing technology, says study
• Levy Control Framework: The unanswered questions
• Focus on regional climate impacts to hasten emission cuts, scientists say
• Analysis: How 2015 became the hottest year on record
• Carbon capture delay ‘could add £20bn’ to UK climate costs
• Timeline: the Paris agreement’s ‘ratchet mechanism’
• Paris agreement on climate change: What happens next?
• Heat absorbed by oceans has doubled since 1997
• Higher beef production could lower Brazil’s emissions, study says
• Oil below $30: what does it mean for action on climate change?
• Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2015
• Guest post: Linking extreme rainfall, flooding and climate change in the recent UK deluges
• Carbon Briefly: Jason Box
• Q&A: How scientists link extreme weather to climate change
• Analysis: Record UK renewable energy investment overtakes North Sea spend
• Guest post: Untangling fact from fiction in media warnings of extreme weather
• Human emissions will delay next ice age by 50,000 years, study says
• State of the Union: How climate and energy have featured since 1989
• Giant icebergs boost Southern Ocean carbon storage, says study
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Tim Flannery
• Aliso Canyon: How bad is the California gas leak disaster?
• Droughts and heatwaves cause 10% drop in annual crop harvests
• Analysis: How December 2015 topped chart as UK’s wettest month on record
• Revealed: Emails undermine government’s argument for cutting renewables support
• Map: Where climate change could hit electricity production

December 2015

• EPA sees exciting future for utilities as Clean Power Plan takes effect
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Michel Jarraud