100 articles from Carbon Brief between November 2023 and April 2024
April 2024
- 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
- 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 2024: 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 2023: 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 2023: 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