100 articles from Carbon Brief between November 2022 and May 2023

May 2023

• 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
• Renewables will be world’s top electricity source within three years, IEA data reveals
• Tropical forests face ‘substantial carbon loss’ as humid areas contract
• Media reaction: US Inflation Reduction Act and the global ‘clean-energy arms race’
• Q&A: Will the UK’s new farm payments cut emissions and help nature?

January 2023

• Wind and solar were EU’s top electricity source in 2022 for first time ever
• Guest post: How can nature-based solutions help cities achieve their climate goals?
• Amazon’s least-deforested areas are due to ‘vital role’ of Indigenous peoples
• Climate change could make parts of Lebanon ‘too hot’ for producing olive oil
• Cropped 25 January 2023: Carbon offsets controversy; Trade wars; Methane round-up
• Guest post: How the UK’s push to reach net-zero could deliver key health benefits
• Guest post: Can ‘green hydrogen’ grow fast enough for 1.5C?
• Vacancy: Section Editor (Policy)
• Guest post: How the South Atlantic is overcoming its history as an under-researched ocean
• Guest post: The state of ‘carbon dioxide removal’ in seven charts
• State of the climate: How the world warmed in 2022
• Net-zero is ‘economic opportunity of 21st century’ for UK, says Skidmore review
• Explainer: Can the world ‘halt and reverse’ biodiversity loss by 2030?
• Tonga volcano eruption raises ‘imminent’ risk of temporary 1.5C breach
• Cropped 11 January 2023: Brazil under Lula; COP15 reaction; EU deforestation law
• Met Office: A review of the UK’s climate in 2022
• Analysis: How UK newspapers commented on energy and climate change in 2022
• Logged tropical forests are a ‘substantial’ carbon source for at least 10 years
• Half of world’s glaciers to ‘disappear’ with 1.5C of global warming
• Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2022

December 2022

• Cropped 21 December 2022: COP15 special edition
• Vacancy: Digital Content Executive
• Argentina’s record-breaking 2022 heatwave made ‘60 times more likely’ by climate change
• COP15: Key outcomes agreed at the UN biodiversity conference in Montreal
• Video: What needs to happen to make the COP15 Global Biodiversity Framework a success?
• Richest people in UK ‘use more energy flying’ than poorest do overall
• Guest post: ‘Fair’ climate-finance flows should be at least $250bn per year
• Guest post: Why the southern hemisphere is stormier than the northern
• Polar bears and climate change: What does the science say?
• State of the climate: 2022 is currently tied for fourth warmest year on record
• Interactive: Tracking progress at the COP15 biodiversity summit
• Analysis: IEA’s renewables forecast grows 76% in two years after ‘largest ever’ revision
• Interactive: Who wants what at the COP15 biodiversity summit
• Heat pumps are the ‘central technology’ for low-carbon heating, concludes IEA

November 2022

• Guest post: Intensive, lower-carbon animal farming could raise pandemic risks
• Vacancy: Section Editor (China)
• Cropped 24 November 2022: Deforestation pledges; Food systems at COP27; EU fertiliser communication
• COP27: Key outcomes for food, forests, land and nature at the UN climate talks in Egypt