100 articles from Carbon Brief between February 2023 and July 2023

July 2023

• Heat-related deaths ‘56% higher among women’ during record-breaking 2022 European summer
• Guest post: Coal-project financing outside of China hits 12-year low 
• DeBriefed 7 July 2023: World’s run of hottest days; Shipping’s climate reckoning; Revival for climate misinformation
• Sir David Attenborough: How polar ship will help scientists study climate change
• Cropped 5 July 2023: Grain deal fears; Peru deforestation; COP15 catch-up
• Guest post: Climate models underestimate food security risk from ‘compound’ extreme weather
• In-depth Q&A: How trees benefit nature, people and the climate 
• Q&A: Does a new ‘global pact’ accelerate climate finance for developing countries?
• Analysis: How low-sulphur shipping rules are affecting global warming
• Introducing Carbon Brief’s contributing editors

June 2023

• DeBriefed 30 June 2023: Deforestation rises; UK not a ‘climate leader’; Thailand field research; Pick of climate jobs
• China Briefing 29 June 2023: China-German climate deal; Coal vs clean; Record-breaking heatwave; Revving EVs
• CCC: Chance of UK meeting climate pledges has ‘worsened’ since last year
• ‘Striking’ new NASA videos show CO2 emissions rapidly building up in atmosphere
• Explicador: Cómo terminar la violencia de género ayudará a cumplir las metas de conservación
• DeBriefed 23 June 2023: Climate finance talks; UK marine heatwave; Deadly heat in India
• Vacancy: Data scientist
• In-depth: How climate change affects health in Africa
• Cropped 21 June 2023: Canada burns; El Niño arrives; Third Pole melts
• Explainer: How ending gender violence will help deliver conservation goals
• Guest post: How China’s rural solar policy could also boost heat pumps
• Analysis: UK would need less imported gas under a Labour government
• DeBriefed 16 June 2023: Bonn talks close; Shell sticks to fossil fuels; Record ocean heat
• Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2023 UN climate conference
• China Briefing 15 June 2023: CBAM fight; New energy milestone; Extreme heat
• Guest post: Nearly half of recent climate pledges plan to keep extracting fossil fuels 
• DeBriefed 9 June 2023: North American wildfires; Bonn climate talks; COP28 controversy
• Media reaction: Canada’s wildfires in 2023 and the role of climate change
• Guest post: What ‘credible’ climate pledges mean for future global warming
• Factcheck: Why banning new North Sea oil and gas is not a ‘Just Stop Oil plan’
• Guest post: New indicators will track climate change between IPCC reports
• Cropped 7 June 2023: EU nature law battles; Amazon in focus; Innovate4Climate conference
• Air-pollution monitors may hold ‘unnoticed’ wealth of biodiversity data
• DeBriefed 2 June 2023: US debt deal raises climate risk; Amazon under threat; China sizzles

May 2023

• Climate change had no ‘significant’ impact on northern Italy floods in May 2023
• ‘Safe and just’ climate boundary has already been breached, says contested study
• Jobs created by net-zero transition will ‘offset’ fossil-fuel job losses in Republican US states
• The Carbon Brief Profile: Pakistan
• Guest post: Half of developing countries still struggle to report greenhouse gas emissions
• Cropped 24 May 2023: Biggest debt-for-nature swap, AIM4Climate summit; Bahamian ag minister
• Q&A: How can countries stop subsidies harming biodiversity?
• Montreal Protocol has slowed loss of Arctic sea ice, say scientists
• Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions hit Q1 record high after 4% rise in early 2023 
• Commodity Profile: Coffee
• Helping ‘climate-compatible trees’ spread their seeds may benefit Europe’s forests
• Western-Mediterranean heatwave ‘almost impossible’ without climate change
• Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief – OLD
• Cropped 3 May 2023: Record ocean heat; Meat advertising tactics; East African drought

April 2023

• State of the climate: Growing El Niño threatens more extreme heat in 2023
• Deadly drought in Horn of Africa ‘would not have happened’ without climate change
• ‘Explosive’ growth means one in three new cars will be electric by 2030, IEA says
• Unprecedented heat extremes ‘could occur in any region globally’
• Guest post: How land use drives CO2 emissions around the world
• Analysis: Half the global population saw all-time record temperatures over past decade
• Q&A: Did World Bank and IMF spring meetings help to scale up climate finance?
• Analysis: Shell admits 1.5C climate goal means immediate end to fossil fuel growth
• Cropped 19 April 2023: Fortress conservation; Ukraine aftershocks; India’s tiger census
• ‘Alarming’ expansion of cropland in protected areas threatens biodiversity goals
• Q&A: What does the EU’s new deforestation law mean for climate and biodiversity?
• Climate change compounding inequalities faced by women in agriculture, FAO says
• Record clean-power growth in 2023 to spark ‘new era’ of fossil fuel decline
• Guest post: How Boaty McBoatface is becoming instrumental for ocean science
• Cropped 5 April 2023: Carbon offsets scrutinised; UN water talks; IPCC beef and food fraud
• Loss and damage: How can culture and heritage loss be measured and addressed?

March 2023

• In-depth Q&A: The UK’s ‘green day’ avalanche of climate and energy announcements
• CCC: England has ‘lost a decade’ in fight to prepare for climate change impacts
• Guest post: The gaps in India’s ‘heat action plans’
• Carbon Brief’s definitive guide to the entire IPCC sixth assessment cycle
• Q&A: IPCC wraps up its most in-depth assessment of climate change
• The Carbon Brief Interview: ‘Loss-and-damage’ finance pioneer Robert Van Lierop
• Cropped 22 March 2023: Willow project approved; Post-Brexit trade deal; Ocean roundup
• Guest post: How the energy crisis is boosting heat pumps in Europe
• ‘Exceptional’ surge in methane emissions from wetlands worries scientists
• Q&A: How the EU wants to race to net-zero with ‘Green Deal Industrial Plan’
• Guest post: What 13,500 citations reveal about the IPCC’s climate science report
• Analysis: Fuel-duty freezes have increased UK CO2 emissions by up to 7%
• Arctic sea ice winter peak in 2023 is fifth lowest on record
• UK spring budget 2023: Key climate and energy announcements
• Regrowth of degraded tropical forests offsets ‘a quarter’ of deforestation emissions
• Analysis: How the diversity of IPCC authors has changed over three decades
• Heavy rainfall from New Zealand’s Cyclone Gabrielle ‘more common on warmer planet’
• Food waste makes up ‘half’ of global food system emissions
• Climate resilience: Is the UK ready for the impacts of global warming?
• CCC: Here’s how the UK can get reliable zero-carbon electricity by 2035
• Cropped 8 March 2023: High seas; Trees; Wildlife unease
• Q&A: What does the ‘High Seas Treaty’ mean for climate change and biodiversity?
• Guest post: How climate adaptation plans for European cities are gradually getting better
• Analysis: UK emissions fall 3.4% in 2022 as coal use drops to lowest level since 1757

February 2023

• Heat pumps ‘up to three times cheaper’ than green hydrogen in Europe, study finds
• Cropped 22 February 2023: Amazon healing; Bird flu; Safeguard mechanism
• Guest post: Can higher ambition in developed countries create ‘carbon space’ for others?
• China: What the world’s largest food system means for climate change
• The Carbon Brief Profile: Nigeria
• Guest post: How quickly does the world need to ‘phase down’ all fossil fuels?
• South American drought in 2022 partly driven by ‘triple-dip’ La Niña
• Recent Alps snow cover decline ‘unprecedented’ in past 600 years
• Analysis: Contradictory coal data clouds China’s CO2 emissions ‘rebound’ in 2022
• Guest post: The causes and impacts of Pacific north-west’s brutal 2021 heatwave
• Fertiliser emissions could be cut to ‘one-fifth of current levels’ by 2050
• Cropped 8 February 2023: UK nature plans; EU-Mercosur talks; US logging ban