100 articles from Carbon Brief between June 2023 and September 2023
September 2023
- In-depth Q&A: What are ‘biodiversity offsets’?
- ‘Exceptional’ Antarctic melt drives months of record-low global sea ice cover
- Mapped: The impacts of carbon-offset projects around the world
- Infographic: How are carbon offsets supposed to work?
- Timeline: The 60-year history of carbon offsets
- Glossary: Carbon Brief’s guide to the terminology of carbon offsets
- In-depth Q&A: Can ‘carbon offsets’ help to tackle climate change?
- DeBriefed 22 September 2023: UN’s first ‘climate-ambition’ summit; UK govt’s climate U-turn; How to protect the north-east Atlantic
- Q&A: How scientists tackle the challenges of estimating wildfire CO2 emissions
- In-depth Q&A: What do Rishi Sunak’s U-turns mean for UK climate policy?
- China Briefing 21 September 2023: New power-market rules; 1,000GW of solar ‘by 2026’; Impact of ‘EV wars’
- Analysis: UK government’s climate U-turns put legally binding targets in jeopardy
- Guest post: Plans for new oil and gas power plants have grown by 13% in 2023
- Q&A: How are Libya’s ‘medicane’-fuelled floods linked to climate change?
- DeBriefed 15 September 2023: G20’s big bet on renewables; Libya’s catastrophe; Interview with IEA chief
- Guest post: Ice cores reveal Antarctica is warming twice as fast as global average
- Cropped 13 September 2023: G20 meeting; Cargill deforestation investigation; Invasive species report
- Halving reliance on meat and dairy could cut land-use emissions ‘by 31%’
- DeBriefed 8 September 2023: Africa’s first climate summit; Wildfire study controversy; Palestine’s struggle for climate funds
- Analysis: UK renewables still cheaper than gas, despite auction setback for offshore wind
- Factcheck: Scientists pour cold water on claims of ‘journal bias’ by author of wildfires study
- Q&A: Major global report reveals how climate, land use and trade drive ‘invasive species’
- China Briefing 7 September 2023: Coal ‘spree’; Geopolitical ‘cooperation’; Interview with China policy experts
- Guest post: Behind the scenes at Senegal’s ‘just energy transition partnership’
- DeBriefed 1 September 2023: ‘Destructive’ Hurricane Idalia; UK cabinet shake-up; Ireland’s temperate rainforests
August 2023
- Cropped 30 August 2023: New nature fund; Ecuador referendum; Forest amendments challenged
- EU’s use of fossil fuels for electricity falls 17% to ‘record low’ in first half of 2023
- Guest post: How climate change will hit snow levels across Europe’s ski resorts
- DeBriefed 25 August 2023: Canada’s wildfires; Ecuador chooses Amazon over oil; Getting angry about climate change
- Vacancy: Digital Content Executive
- China Briefing 24 August 2023: ‘Anti-spy’ measures for energy; Green electricity certificates; Trading carbon credits
- Q&A: How is climate change affecting China’s cropland?
- Risk of heat-related deaths has ‘increased rapidly’ over past 20 years
- Global warming could push tropical forest leaves past a ‘critical temperature’
- Eastern Canada wildfires: Climate change doubled likelihood of ‘extreme fire weather’
- Guest post: Gauging the success of climate change adaptation
- DeBriefed 18 August 2023: Landmark US youth climate case; Himalayan landslides; Ecuador votes on Amazon’s future
- Q&A: What does the UK’s new biomass strategy mean for net-zero?
- Cropped 16 August 2023: Amazon Summit; Hawaii’s wildfire aftermath; Indonesia peat investigation
- Guest post: How the Inflation Reduction Act narrows the gap to US climate goals
- Q&A: How China is using nuclear power to reduce its carbon emissions
- DeBriefed 11 August 2023: Amazon Summit; Hawaii fires; Limits of UK rooftop solar
- Q&A: What the Amazon Summit means for deforestation and climate change
- China Briefing 10 August 2023: Severe floods; G20 ‘obstruction’; Q&A on nuclear power
- Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions in Q2 2023 rebound to 2021’s record levels
- Guest post: How Ukraine could emerge from war as a climate leader
- DeBriefed 4 August 2023: UK to ‘max out’ oil and gas; South America winter heatwave; How Indigenous women fight Amazon fires
- Migration: Ties to ‘home’ are key for Himalayan communities that stay despite climate risks
- Cropped 2 August 2023: Piecemeal UN food summit; Agriculture impacted; Indigenous water defender interview
- Revealed: Thousands of chickens in transit died from heat stress on day UK hit 40C
- Fires could lock vast parts of the Amazon into ‘treeless state’
July 2023
- Dwindling sea ice linked to decline of Arctic foxes in Canada’s Hudson Bay
- DeBriefed 28 July 2023: ‘Global boiling’ era arrives; UK net-zero under attack; Climate change and the human brain
- ‘Climate-altered’ Pacific could see conflict between tuna fishing and deep-sea mining
- Prioritising threatened species could help ‘guide’ expansion of EU protected areas
- China Briefing 27 July 2023: Kerry in Beijing; ‘Collapsing’ hydro; ‘Soaring’ solar
- State of the climate: 2023 now likely hottest year on record after extreme summer
- Autobahn speed limit would cut carbon and bring €1bn in benefits, study says
- Record-breaking 2023 heat events are ‘not rare anymore’ due to climate change
- Guest post: What would it take to phase out coal in Indonesia?
- DeBriefed 21 July 2023: Earth ‘set’ for hottest year; John Kerry in China; UK’s ‘weak’ climate plan
- Steel industry makes ‘pivotal’ shift towards lower-carbon production
- Cropped 19 July 2023: EU nature restoration law vote; Deep-sea mining; Extreme weather everywhere
- Media reaction: Extreme weather hits world’s seven continents in July 2023
- Guest post: How ‘locally led’ adaptation can help address climate change
- DeBriefed 14 July 2023: US says ‘no’ to climate reparations; ‘Plan’ for COP28; Extreme weather ‘intensifies’; Just Stop Oil prisoner interview
- Q&A: The shipping industry climate goals backed – and blocked – by China
- ‘Malaria resurgence’ feared in Ethiopia amid El Niño and climate change
- China Briefing 13 July 2023: Emissions cap; Heat and floods; New climate talks; Gallium and germanium restrictions; Shipping carbon levy
- In-depth Q&A: Will the new global shipping deal help deliver climate goals?
- 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’