100 articles from Carbon Brief between January 2024 and May 2024
May 2024
- DeBriefed 10 May 2024: 11 months of record heat; Climate scientists ‘hopeless and broken’; 40 years of the Thames Barrier
- Major emitters ‘may retain or expand’ fossil fuels despite net-zero plans
- Guest post: Solar plus batteries ‘cheaper than new coal’ for meeting China’s rising demand
- Cropped 8 May 2024: Food price spike; Infectious diseases; Indian ocean heatwave
- Wind and solar are ‘fastest-growing electricity sources in history’
- DeBriefed 3 May 2024: G7 sets end date for coal; Deadly floods around globe; Brazil’s pitch to tax ultra-rich
- CO2 removal ‘gap’ shows countries ‘lack progress’ for 1.5C warming limit
- Chart: How British electricity supplies are shifting decisively away from fossil fuels
- China Briefing 2 May 2024: Energy Law draft; 3.9% carbon intensity target; Guangdong floods
- Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief
- COP16: Tracking country pledges on tackling biodiversity loss
- Elección de México 2024: qué dicen las plataformas electorales sobre energía y cambio climático
- Mexico election 2024: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change
- Guest post: Ice-age analysis suggests worst-case global warming is less likely
- Drought behind Panama Canal’s 2023 shipping disruption ‘unlikely’ without El Niño
April 2024
- DeBriefed 26 April 2024: Extremes grip Asia; Human rights inquiry; Using climate science in court
- Latin America approves plan for protecting environmental defenders
- Cropped 24 April 2024: Mass coral bleaching; FAO report retraction request; Escazú Agreement
- Guest post: How shifting diets away from beef could cut Brazil’s emissions
- Alaska refuge drilling could threaten polar bears with ‘lethal’ oil spills
- Analysis: Fossil fuels fall to record-low 2.4% of British electricity
- State of the climate: 2024 off to a record-warm start
- 报告： 2023年中国新建煤电项目占全球的95%
- Q&A: Climate finance at World Bank and IMF spring meetings 2024
- DeBriefed 19 April 2024: ‘Most extensive’ global coral bleaching; World Bank spring meetings; India’s election kicks off
- China Briefing 18 April 2024: Clean-tech ‘overcapacity’; New coal construction; Interview with China Photovoltaic Industry Association
- India election 2024: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change
- Revealed: UK ‘double counting’ £500m of aid for war-torn countries as climate finance
- Climate change ‘bait and switch’ threatens sharks and rays
- DeBriefed 12 April 2024: ‘Historic’ European court victory; Climate migration explained; K-pop and climate change
- In-depth Q&A: How does climate change drive human migration?
- Inside HABITABLE: Investigating climate-driven migration in rural Thailand
- China responsible for 95% of new coal power construction in 2023, report says
- Cropped 10 April 2024: ‘Ghost roads’ deforestation; Record wildfires; Southern Africa drought
- Guest post: How climate change could reverse progress in global inequality
- How Nigeria is reeling from extreme heat fuelled by climate change
- DeBriefed 5 April 2024: Southern Africa’s drought ‘disaster’; Top electric car sales slump; Is Nigeria coping with extreme heat?
- China Briefing 4 April 2024: Heat-driven impact on economy; Coal capacity ‘pushed down’; China’s WTO complaint
- Factcheck: Why the recent ‘acceleration’ in global warming is what scientists expect
March 2024
- DeBriefed 28 March 2024: Amazon fund; China faces trade storm; How lifestyle changes could slash EU emissions
- Analysis: New oil and gas projects since 2021 could emit 14bn tonnes of CO2
- Cropped 27 March 2024: Bankrolling meat and dairy; EU nature restoration pushback; Missing cherry blossoms
- Explainer: Why some countries are aiming for ‘net-negative’ emissions
- Antarctic sea ice ‘behaving strangely’ as Arctic reaches ‘below-average’ winter peak
- Guest post: Mapping where tree-planting has the greatest climate benefit
- DeBriefed 22 March 2024: ‘Red alert’ for Earth; Heat-pump myths factchecked; Myanmar’s rare-earth mining crisis
- Factcheck: 18 misleading myths about heat pumps
- China Briefing 21 March 2024: New ‘trade-in’ policy; China ETS expands; ‘Two sessions’ geopolitical impact
- Climate change made west Africa’s ‘dangerous humid heatwave’ 10 times more likely
- Q&A: The impact of farmer protests on the EU’s upcoming parliamentary elections
- ‘Drill, baby, drill’: The surprising history of Donald Trump’s fossil-fuel slogan
- DeBriefed 15 March 2024: Global methane surge; Europe faces ‘urgent’ climate risks; Surprising origin of Trump’s ‘drill, baby, drill’
- Guest post: Climate adaptation becomes less effective as the world warms
- Shell abandons 2035 emissions target and weakens 2030 goal
- Q&A: What does China’s ‘two sessions’ mean for climate policy in 2024?
- Cropped 13 March 2024: Drought hits food supplies; ‘Mass bleaching’ of coral reefs; Industrialising African ag
- Loggers have ‘grabbed’ around 1m hectares of Indigenous land in DRC
- Analysis: UK emissions in 2023 fell to lowest level since 1879
- DeBriefed 8 March 2024: Climate cost of a Trump victory calculated; ‘Weird’ winter heat; China’s pivotal ‘two sessions’ meeting; Young female activist interview
- China Briefing 7 March 2024: ‘Two sessions’ readout; BYD’s EV megaships; Power upgrade
- UK spring budget 2024: Key climate and energy announcements
- Analysis: Trump election win could add 4bn tonnes to US emissions by 2030
- Guest post: The challenge of consensus decision-making in UN climate negotiations
- DeBriefed 1 March 2024: EU’s ‘flagship’ nature law approved; Glaciers losing their climate ‘memory’; UN environment assembly resolutions
February 2024
- Cropped 28 February 2024: Chocolate crisis; Tree-planting scrutinised; EU restoration law
- Q&A: What does the EU ‘nature restoration’ law mean for climate and biodiversity?
- UK emissions could rise by 15% if government uses ‘surplus’ to weaken climate goal, CCC warns
- DeBriefed 23 February 2024: Extreme heat from Asia to Africa; China risks missing 2025 CO2 targets; Why climate change matters for the pandemic treaty
- China Briefing 22 February 2024: Interview with Chinese govt climate advisor; Missing emissions targets; The cost of excluding China
- No ‘statistically significant’ link between climate change and Chile’s wildfires
- Analysis: Record drop in China’s CO2 emissions needed to meet 2025 target
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Pan Jiahua
- Interview: Why global support for climate action is ‘systematically underestimated’
- DeBriefed 16 February 2024: Atlantic and Amazon ‘tipping points’; New ‘troika’ for 1.5C; Global support for climate action ‘underestimated’
- Analysis: How UK winters are getting warmer and wetter
- Mystery over ‘unexpectedly large’ emissions from Africa’s tropical ecosystems
- Cropped 14 February 2024: Nature fund gets real; Migratory species in peril; EU rolls back regulations
- ‘Unprecedented’ stress in up to half of the Amazon may lead to tipping point by 2050
- The Carbon Brief Profile: Democratic Republic of the Congo
- DeBriefed 9 February 2024: EU told to cut emissions 90% by 2040; Labour’s £28bn in context; Can Northern Ireland ‘catch up’ on climate?
- Vacancy: Team Coordinator
- Ny-Ålesund: How UK scientists are studying climate change in the Arctic
- China Briefing 8 February 2024: Xi’s ‘green’ call; Renewables to top coal; No new EU solar support
- Q&A: European Commission calls for 90% cut in EU emissions by 2040
- Analysis: How do the EU farmer protests relate to climate change?
- Scientists challenge ‘flawed communication’ of study claiming 1.5C warming breach
- DeBriefed 2 February 2024: UK’s ‘slowing’ climate ambition; New top US climate diplomat; Surging methane from wetlands
- Guest post: Heavy use of CO2 removal would trigger high sustainability risks
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Zou Ji
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 2024: 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