The latest 100 articles from Carbon Brief
November 2026
October 2026
- COP17: Key outcomes agreed at the UN biodiversity conference in Yerevan
- Experts: What China wants from the COP31 climate talks
- Analysis: China’s clean-tech exports in 2026 to avoid as much CO2 as Brazil emits in a year
- UK budget 2026: Key climate and energy announcements
- Analysis: How the UK spent more than £11.6bn on climate aid since 2021
- Revealed: UK relied on £2bn of ‘questionable accounting’ to hit its climate-aid goal
- Q&A: Why are UK energy bills so high – and how could they be lowered?
- Guest post: Greenland ice sheet shrinks for 30th year in a row
- Chart: A record two-thirds of car sales in China are now electric vehicles
- Experts: How are climate scientists using artificial intelligence?
- Revealed: Expensive gas behind ‘nearly 90%’ of rise in UK electricity bills
- UNEP: Opportunity has ‘been lost’ to meet 1.5C warming limit without ‘overshoot’
- Q&A: Why a pivotal IPCC meeting in Ethiopia ended in ‘profound disappointment’
- COP17: Which countries have released new pledges to tackle nature loss?
- COP17: Tracking progress towards the UN’s 2030 nature targets
- COP17: Developed countries ‘fall far short’ of UN targets for nature finance
- Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at the COP17 biodiversity summit
- Factcheck: UK Conservatives double the ‘cost of net-zero’ after spreadsheet blunder
September 2026
- Analysis: Wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis
- Analysis: Lula presidency saved at least 20,000km2 of Brazilian Amazon since 2022
- ‘Concerning’ low sea ice persists as Antarctic hits third-lowest winter peak
- Interactive: What China’s dozens of ‘five-year plans’ say about climate and energy
- Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK
- Explainer: How sea level rise poses an ‘existential threat’ to humans, heritage and nature
- Analysis: Nepal’s $20m ‘loss-and-damage’ claim only covers 0.7% of flood costs
- Analysis: ‘Super El Niño’ breaks ‘remarkable’ all-time record
- Analysis: India’s power-sector emissions flat for two years due to clean-energy surge
- Analysis: Global fossil-fuel emissions set to fall in 2026 amid Hormuz crisis
- CCC: Heathrow expansion could push flights to ‘80% of UK emissions by 2050’
- Revealed: England’s June 2026 heatwave sparked record demand for ambulances
- El Niño: Indonesia fire emissions in 2026 ‘on track’ to match record for this century
- Factcheck: Reform UK’s 45 false or misleading claims about climate and energy
- Revealed: More than 1,000 NHS operations cancelled due to record UK heatwaves
- Guest post: How extreme heat is ‘creeping’ from summer into autumn and spring
- UK aviation emissions to be 50% higher than thought by 2050, government admits
- Q&A: What can – and cannot – be said about global warming’s role in the 2026 Himalayan floods
- Analysis: UK solar power hits record high over summer 2026
- How this summer’s heat and drought impacted crops in Europe – in six charts
- Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use
- Guest post: Why tough methane cuts are crucial for keeping warming ‘well-below’ 2C
- Explainer: The CMIP7 emissions scenarios – and how they explore future climate change
August 2026
- Climate change exposes 580 million children to 20 extra ‘heat-stress days’ every year
- Factcheck: 10 flaws in the Conservative report on ‘cheap power’
- Q&A: What is ‘long-duration energy storage’ – and why does the UK need it?
- Explainer: How the ‘super El Niño’ will reshape the world’s weather
- Analysis: The two largest reservoirs in the US have hit record-low levels
- Why land-use emissions have fallen by a third this century – in six charts
- Q&A: What does China’s 15th five-year plan for coal mean for climate action?
- Analysis: Weaker EV targets could cost UK consumers £3bn a year by 2030
- Q&A: What is in China’s new five-year plan for climate change?
- Factcheck: How nuclear, gas, wind and solar power are affected during heatwaves
- Q&A: Does the world need ‘carbon capture and storage’ to reach net-zero?
July 2026
- Correcting climate ‘misperceptions’ may not boost climate action
- Factcheck: No, Europe is not having its ‘quietest’ year for wildfires
- World falling short on 22 of 23 nature targets for 2030, says draft UN report
- Climate change is driving a ‘shift’ in childhood malaria risk across Africa
- Q&A: What does China’s 15th ‘five-year plan’ for renewables mean for climate change?
- Analysis: Wind and solar power overtake fossil fuels in Germany for first time ever
- Analysis: 84% of nations miss deadline to identify ‘nature-harming’ subsidies by 2025
- Factcheck: No, Europe’s heatwaves are not being ‘caused’ by declining air pollution
- Access to finance ‘strengthens climate resilience’ among sub-Saharan women
- State of the climate: Rapidly developing El Niño raises chance of record-warm 2026
- Q&A: What the EU’s carbon market review means for climate action
- Q&A: How heat-related deaths are counted by scientists and public health authorities
- UK withdraws millions in funding from world’s second-largest rainforest in Congo
- 28 quotes from new UK leader Andy Burnham on climate, net-zero and fossil fuels
- Interview: COP31 president says electrification is ‘surest way to protect citizens’
- Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate
- Interview: Dr Sun Yixian on his new database tracking Chinese climate ‘leadership’
- Guest post: France’s June heatwave caused more than 2,700 heat-related deaths
- Q&A: How will the World Bank’s abandoned finance goal affect climate action?
- Q&A: Where do the UN secretary general candidates stand on climate change?
- Analysis: UK newspapers have already printed 63 editorials in 2026 backing North Sea drilling
June 2026
- Six charts show how clean power was world’s largest source of new energy in 2025
- Guest post: Climate change has caused one-fifth of Pine Island glacier retreat
- Q&A: What change of power in Colombia could mean for world’s fossil-fuel transition
- Media reaction: How climate change intensified Europe’s record-breaking June heat
- Livestock heat deaths in transit doubled in UK record-hot summer of 2025
- Analysis: UK sales of electric vehicles just overtook petrol cars for the first time
- Guest post: How US renewable-energy growth persists despite federal policy uncertainty
- Mombasa: Key outcomes from the Our Ocean Conference in Kenya
- CCC: Faster electrification of UK will ‘put money back into people’s pockets’
- Prof Detlef van Vuuren: The climate scientist most cited by the IPCC
- Prof Philippe Ciais: The world’s most highly cited climate scientist
- Introducing Project Cosmos: Carbon Brief’s ‘universe’ of climate science
- Mapped: Inside Carbon Brief’s Cosmos database of 1.8 million climate studies
- Project Cosmos
- Carbon Brief’s ranking of the most highly cited climate scientists
- Carbon Brief’s ranking of the most highly cited climate publications
- Carbon Brief’s ranking of the most highly cited institutions
- Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2026 UN climate conference
- Experts: Why carbon removal needs a ‘major scale up’ to return warming to 1.5C
- Q&A: What do China’s provincial five-year plans say about climate and energy?
- Analysis: Energy-efficient air conditioning could save Indian homes 69bn rupees a year
- Analysis: UK’s EV drivers are now saving £1,100 each a year – and £3bn in total
- Analysis: Solar overtakes gas power in Asia for first time ever
- Guest post: How a record-high ‘energy imbalance’ is driving global warming
- Chart: Why China’s solar boom is slowing down
- Analysis: China’s CO2 climbs 2% in early 2026 due to ‘wasted’ wind and solar