100 articles from Carbon Brief between March 2022 and September 2022
September 2022
- Cropped, 7 September 2022: Pakistan floods; China’s food security; 100 days to COP15
- Guest post: Solar power saved the EU €29bn this summer
- Falling crop yields under warming could see ‘rapid’ decline in bioenergy’s potential
- Guest post: Clam shells show how North Atlantic ‘tipped’ into Little Ice Age
- Guest post: The 50th anniversary of a remarkable global-warming prediction
- Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall by record 8% in second quarter of 2022
August 2022
- Factcheck: Is solar power a ‘threat’ to UK farmland?
- Cropped, 24 August 2022: Drought deluge; US climate bill tackles farming; Pantanal fires
- Guest post: How meeting the 2C goal cuts the climate risks for 25,000 marine species
- Planting trees in tropical cropland could create ‘win-win’ for nature and farming
- Media reaction: What Joe Biden’s landmark climate bill means for climate change
- Analysis: Why UK energy bills are soaring to record highs – and how to cut them
- The Arctic has warmed ‘nearly four times faster’ than the global average
- Cropped, 10 August 2022: Food crisis progress; Irish emissions targets; Amazon deforestation investigation
- Commodity Profile: Wheat
- Guest post: How China and South Korea could save money by steering clear of gas
- 深堀りQ＆A：気候変動が世界に与える影響に関するIPCCの第6次評価報告書
- Guest post: What we learned about coal phaseout by studying 15 countries
July 2022
- Climate change made 2022’s UK heatwave ‘at least 10 times more likely’
- Cropped, 27 July 2022: Heatwaves sweep northern hemisphere; Ukraine-Russia wheat deal; Africa’s conservation congress
- Global warming of 2C could ‘double’ flooding costs in China compared to 1.5C
- State of the climate: 2022 on track for a summer of extreme heat
- Climate change will make it harder for world’s poorest to migrate, study says
- Analysis: UK’s ‘jet-zero’ plan would allow demand for flying to soar 70%
- Media reaction: UK’s record-smashing 40C heatwave and climate change
- Analysis: How the UK’s ‘insane’ 40C heat was forecast ‘weeks in advance’
- Electric cars sales in the US ‘could prevent one-tenth of global cropland expansion’
- Factcheck: No, global warming has not ‘paused’ over the past eight years
- Cropped, 13 July 2022: Valuing biodiversity and wild species; Big meat’s forest pledges digested; Oceans and nature-based solutions
- Nature-based solutions: How can they work for climate, biodiversity and people?
- Q&A: What does the world’s reliance on fertilisers mean for climate change?
- Analysis: Record-low price for UK offshore wind is nine times cheaper than gas
- Guest post: Will China’s new renewable energy plan lead to an early emissions peak?
- Emissions from mining cause ‘up to £2.5tn’ in environmental damages each year
- Expanding ‘Azores high’ driving ‘unprecedented’ changes in western Europe’s climate
June 2022
- Cropped, 29 June 2022: Biodiversity talks; WTO subsidies; EU nature law
- COP15: Key outcomes for nature loss and climate change from UN talks in Nairobi
- CCC: Costly gas means reaching climate goals ‘could save UK 0.5% of GDP’
- Tropical cyclones now ‘13% less frequent’ due to climate change
- Guest post: Why 1.5C and ‘well below’ 2C are part and parcel of one temperature goal
- Video: Why does nature loss receive less international attention than climate change?
- Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2022 UN climate conference
- ‘Food miles’ have larger climate impact than thought, study suggests
- Guest post: China’s wind and solar potential is ‘nine times’ that needed for carbon neutrality
- Vacancy: Section Editor (Food, land and nature)
- Explainer: Can climate change and biodiversity loss be tackled together?
- The Carbon Brief Interview: UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa
- Cropped, 15 June 2022: LEAF Coalition concerns; Kiwis’ carbon pricing; Biofuel boom
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Dr Jonathan Pershing
- Guest post: Reducing material use could cut emissions from cars and homes by at least a third
- Windfarms raise incomes and house prices in rural US, study finds
- China Briefing, 1 June 2022: ‘Longest sustained’ emissions drop; Xie’s Europe trip; Road transport emissions
- Cropped, 1 June 2022: Fears for UN biodiversity summit; Food as a war weapon; Commodity flip-flops
May 2022
- Guest post: How the US can cut its emissions in half by 2030
- Vacancy: Interactive developer
- Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions see longest sustained drop in a decade
- Q&A: What does the new Australian Labor government mean for climate change?
- Climate change made India and Pakistan’s 2022 early heatwave ‘30 times more likely’
- In-depth Q&A: How the EU plans to end its reliance on Russian fossil fuels
- China Briefing, 19 May 2022: China to ‘significantly overachieve’ 2030 targets; Sea levels ‘highest on record’; Power cuts ‘must not occur’
- Guest post: Why China is set to significantly overachieve its 2030 climate goals
- Cropped, 18 May 2022: Great Barrier Reef bleaching unmasked; Food crisis worsens; World begins land negotiations
- Greenhouse gas removal: How could it help the UK reach net-zero by 2050?
- Guest post: How 12 key industries can cut emissions in line with 1.5C
- Australian election 2022: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change
- Climate change made extreme rains in 2022 South Africa floods ‘twice as likely’
- Satellite images reveal global losses of tidal wetlands over past two decades
- Communities in India flooded by ‘Amphan-scale cyclones’ could triple by 2100
- Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief – OLD
- China Briefing, 5 May 2022: ‘Gigantic’ wind and solar bases; Coal capacity ‘surge’; Loans for ‘clean’ coal
- Guest post: What have been the most extreme heatwaves in history?
- Media reaction: South Asia’s 2022 heatwave and the role of climate change
- Cropped, 4 May 2022: UN land report; State of the forests; Indonesia bans palm oil exports
- Guest post: How climate scientists should handle ‘hot models’
- Analysis: What do China’s gigantic wind and solar bases mean for its climate goals?
- Marine heatwaves can be predicted ‘up to a year ahead’
April 2022
- Climate change ‘already’ raising risk of virus spread between mammals
- UN land report: Five key takeaways for climate change, food systems and nature loss
- State of the climate: Start of 2022 is the fifth warmest on record
- China Briefing, 21 April 2022: ‘Unified national energy market’; Guidelines for petrochemical; Energy storage analysis
- ‘One quarter’ of US emissions since 2005 come from fossil fuels on public lands
- Cropped, 20 April 2022: Wheat deals; Protein sustainability report; Reneging on rainforest promises
- Guest post: How climate change is driving forest loss in India
- Guest post: Ranking the reasons why the Larsen C ice shelf is melting
- The Carbon Brief Profile: France
- Ocean warming drove 10% rise in ‘extreme’ rainfall from Atlantic hurricanes in 2020
- Analysis: How UK newspapers changed their minds about climate change
- Q&A: What does the UK’s new energy security strategy mean for climate change?
- China Briefing, 7 April 2022: Carbon peaking ‘around 2027’; EU-China summit; Food systems for cutting CO2
- Scientists react: What are the key new insights from the IPCC’s WG3 report?
- Cropped, 6 April 2022: IPCC on how land can tackle climate change; UN nature talks end in stalemate; Ukraine’s agricultural crisis
- Analysis: What the new IPCC report says about how to limit warming to 1.5C or 2C
- Digital Content Executive Vacancy
- In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s sixth assessment on how to tackle climate change
- Guest post: What seasonal forecasts can tell us about extreme heat this summer
- The Carbon Brief Interview: UN biodiversity chief Elizabeth Maruma Mrema
March 2022
- China Briefing, 31 March 2022: Impact of coal push; ‘No new overseas coal power projects’; Analysis on energy plans
- COP15: Key outcomes for nature loss and climate change from UN talks in Geneva
- Guest post: How not to interpret the emissions scenarios in the IPCC report
- Analysis: What does China’s coal push mean for its climate goals?