100 articles from Carbon Brief between November 2014 and January 2015
January 2015
- UK coal use to fall to lowest level since industrial revolution
- Global sea levels rising faster than previously thought, study shows
- How small volcanic eruptions may have slowed surface temperature rise
- Five innovations that could cut the cost of offshore wind
- Expert views: How low oil prices affect the UK’s climate and energy policy
- Farming overtakes deforestation and land use as a driver of climate change
- Long-term economic shocks imply taking strong, early action on climate change, study shows
- Scientists discuss how strongly a warming Arctic is implicated in extreme weather
- The implications of $50-a-barrel oil for the worlds energy mix
- London set to miss mayor’s climate change targets as population booms
- Trade wind “tug of war” to blame as scientists lower odds of an El Niño
- Meeting two degree climate target means 80 per cent of world’s coal is “unburnable”, study says
- Early EU carbon market reform paramount – UK study
- Germany makes slow but steady progress towards ambitious climate goals
- Warming oceans less able to store organic carbon, study suggests
- What falling oil prices may mean for the future of renewable energy investment
- Old coal and gas plants won largest share of capacity market, final results confirm
- 2014 was the UKs hottest year on record, confirms the Met Office
- Holiday news roundup
December 2014
- The year in climate science
- Back to the future: The year in international climate politics
- Energy trends in 2014 and how they affect climate change
- Five bits of research that shaped climate science in 2014
- 25 inspirational texts about climate change
- The year in UK climate politics
- Pacific winds change the speed of global warming, says new study
- Capacity market secures some new gas while providing stay of execution to old coal
- First look at new NASA satellite map reveals global carbon dioxide hotspots
- What do squirrels, beavers and reindeer have to do with methane emissions?
- UK energy statistics: Gas power increases, renewables cover nuclear shortfall and power consumption falls
- Insights from a global survey of climate change opinion
- Deforestation in the tropics affects climate around the world, study finds
- Why aren’t climate models better at predicting Arctic sea ice loss?
- Government holds first capacity market auction
- New satellite maps reveal hidden intricacies of Greenland ice loss and sea level rise
- New paper raises question of tropical forest carbon storage
- Good COP, bad COP: Winners and losers at the Lima climate conference
- Briefing: Lima Call for Climate Action lays out policy options for new global deal
- Formulating five ways just to thank Ban Ki-moon: Behind the scenes at the Lima climate conference
- Glossary: International climate change negotiations
- Infographic: Mapping country alliances at the international climate talks
- What happens if we overshoot the two degree target for limiting global warming?
- Briefing: Country pledges to the UN’s Green Climate Fund
- Low carbon policies could cut household energy costs after 2030, Committee on Climate Change says
- Two degrees: Will we avoid dangerous climate change?
- European summer heatwaves ten times more likely with climate change
- Why the UN says climate adaptation could cost developing countries $1 trillion a year
- Lima week one recap: climate talks falter as governments evade scrutiny
- Two degrees: The history of climate change’s speed limit
- Five things we’ve learned from the first five days of the Lima climate change conference
- ‘Brave’ legal challenge launched against UK capacity market
- Dissecting Germanys new climate action plan
- 2014 on course to be the hottest year on record
- A summary of climate and energy announcements in the Autumn statement 2014
- Meat and dairy consumption could mean a two-degree target is “off the table”
- Truth is “the first casualty” in the energy and climate debate – a report from the Spectator Energy Forum
- Climate policy goes commercial: E.ON takes advantage of the new economics of a low carbon energy market
- Road to Paris: a timeline of negotiations for a global climate deal
- Factcheck: The Times claims climate-related deaths estimate is exaggerated
- Europe’s energy and climate policies get mixed review
November 2014
- Education is “top priority” for climate change adaptation, study shows
- The five massive changes to how we use energy that could limit climate change
- Climate change set to increase extreme weather risk to UK population
- Scientists dig deep into earth’s history for clues to El Niño past, present and future
- Is India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, a climate leader?
- Remote-controlled submarines reveal Antarctic sea ice is thicker than previously thought
- World Bank: ending poverty might become impossible because of climate change
- How the UK’s nuclear new-build plans keep getting delayed
- Will more floods change the debate about climate change?
- Tackle air pollution to kickstart climate action, says new study
- UN report says energy efficiency integral to bridging emissions gap
- Tackling climate while maximising oil extraction: UK-Canada meeting glosses the paradox
- Why feeding more people doesn’t have to be at the expense of the climate
- How an IPCC graph linked fossil fuel use to climate change, and why it led to a heated debate
- Seven charts showing why we need China’s help to stop dangerous warming
- Germany debates programme to save 2020 climate target
- Imported meat comes with a climate cost, new study warns
- Are countries contributing their fair share to the UN’s climate adaptation fund?
- US lightning strikes to increase under climate change
- A detailed look at the US and Chinas historic climate deal
- Can we use gas as a ‘bridging fuel’ to a low carbon world?
- Six years worth of current emissions would blow the carbon budget for 1.5 degrees
- Warmer temperatures and more acidic oceans put crabs into survival mode
- Flood warnings could come three days earlier, study suggests
- Study links hot weather to violent conflict in Africa
- Remote-control robots reveal why the Antarctic ice sheet is melting
- Q&A: Coal and the UK’s carbon targets
- Five things we learned from DECC’s annual energy statement
- Why the government adds green levies to household energy bills
- Can (green) energy policy create jobs?
- Climate change puts bees and flowering plants out of sync
- What the Republicans midterm election victory means for global climate policy
- How can climate negotiators avoid Paris 2015 being a rerun of Copenhagen 2009?
- Media round-up: The IPCC synthesis report
- Untangling greenhouse gas emissions highlights the importance of carbon dioxide
- The implications of the US midterm elections for climate change policy: An international perspective
- Carbon Brief’s guide to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fifth assessment report
- The IPCC’s untapped resource: the frequently asked questions
- Rising temperatures will delay disease reduction in China, study shows
- 10 charts illustrating the IPCC’s report, from rising emissions to transforming the energy sector