Recent Carbon Brief articles by Sophie Yeo

• World is ‘backsliding’ on gasoline subsidies, finds study
• Clean energy: The challenge of achieving a ‘just transition’ for workers
• US trying harder on climate change than ‘unambitious’ China, says study
• Solar panels have been benefitting the climate ‘since 2011’
• EU energy package: What it means for coal, renewables and efficiency
• Autumn statement 2016: Key climate and energy announcements
• COP22: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Marrakech
• Climate finance: the challenge of ‘shifting the trillions’
• Preview: The UN’s COP22 climate talks in Marrakech
• ‘Trees on steroids’: Issam Dairanieh on turning CO2 into products
• Explainer: Why a UN climate deal on HFCs matters
• Explainer: Paris Agreement on climate change to ‘enter into force’
• Anthropocene: The journey to a new geological epoch
• In-depth: How can fossil fuel supplies be constrained?
• Explainer: How aviation could, finally, agree a climate deal
• Carbon capture and storage could be cheaper than nuclear, says report
• UK set to miss renewable energy targets, warn MPs
• Analysis: Jeremy Corbyn promises 65% share of renewables by 2030
• Where do the 10 UN secretary general candidates stand on climate change?
• Seven charts showing how countries’ carbon footprints compare
• US election tracker 2016: Democrats and Republicans on energy and climate
• Nick Hurd confirmed as climate minister in new UK department
• Reshuffle: DECC folded into new department headed by Greg Clark
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Mark Watts
• UK faces urgent climate change risks, says CCC
• CCC: Fracking would breach UK climate goals without tougher conditions
• Explainer: When will the European Union ratify the Paris Agreement?
• Low oil prices could ‘hamper’ action on climate change, say scientists
• UK electricity is secure without coal, says Conservative thinktank
• IEA: There are now more than one million electric cars on the world’s roads
• Chatham House: Brexit could harm UK climate and energy policy
• UK can decarbonise without harming nature, says RSPB
• Video: Maritime experts on the need to reduce shipping emissions
• Explainer: The adoption, signing and ratification of the UN climate deal
• ‘Disenfranchised’ small islands to become increasingly arid
• New coal plants rise in 2015 despite falling consumption
• Budget 2016: key climate and energy announcements
• Analysis: The legacy of the Fukushima nuclear disaster
• Investor confidence in UK energy policy has ‘dipped’, warn MPs
• Analysis: Decline in China’s coal consumption accelerates
• EU referendum opinion tracker: energy and climate change
• Explainer: Europe’s struggle to switch on low-carbon heating
• Who’s hitting the EU’s 2020 renewables target — and who’s holding it back?
• Energy in 2016: five highlights from World Bank commodities report
• US could cut power emissions 78% by 2030 using existing technology, says study
• Timeline: the Paris agreement’s ‘ratchet mechanism’
• Paris agreement on climate change: What happens next?
• COP21: Five things to look out for in the final Paris text
• Analysis: Developing countries need $3.5 trillion* to implement climate pledges by 2030
• Explainer: the ‘ratchet mechanism’ within the Paris climate deal
• Paris 2015: What do the negotiating alliances want?
• In-depth: UK pledges coal phase out by 2025, but uncertainty remains
• Old battlelines resurface as countries meet for last time ahead of Paris climate summit
• IEA: UN pledges will cause dramatic slowdown in energy emissions by 2030
• New nuclear: Finland’s cautionary tale for the UK
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Michael Jacobs
• New UN climate deal text: what’s in, what’s out
• Analysis: Brazil’s climate pledge represents slight increase on current emissions
• Explainer: How does climate change fit within the Sustainable Development Goals?
• Paris 2015: Tracking requests for climate finance
• The rise, fall and future of the cleantech industry
• Russian industry paid to increase emissions under UN carbon credits scheme
• Islamic climate declaration calls for fossil fuel phase out
• Explainer: The rise and possible fall of Australia’s Carmichael coal mine
• Australia disappoints with weak UN climate pledge
• Explainer: New negotiating text provides clarity on UN climate deal
• Explainer: Amber Rudd ends Green Deal energy efficiency scheme
• DECC: Amber Rudd reduces subsidies for renewable energy
• Japan’s 2030 climate pledge leaves room for coal expansion
• Climate finance: Funding a low-carbon global economy
• Analysis: How much does the UK spend abroad on ‘climate finance’?
• Reports show how UK and the world can achieve ‘deep decarbonisation’
• Raise carbon price to address aviation emissions, says Airports Commission
• Explainer: Aviation’s battle to limit rising emissions
• In-depth: the science behind the papal encyclical
• The story of the papal encyclical, as told by the media
• In-depth: Is the 1.5C global warming goal politically possible?
• Coal in the G7: Who’s burning what?
• Expert views: Countries meet in Bonn to restart negotiations on UN climate deal
• Cutting soot and methane distracts from 2C goal, says Oxford scientist
• Carbon pricing schemes climb to $50bn, despite Australian backtracking
• Mismatched graph creates confusion in Canada’s UN climate pledge
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Tony de Brum
• Countries fail to set shipping climate target
• EU strikes deal to boost emissions trading scheme
• UK must reform climate policies to become global leader, say economists
• Vatican spells out vision for zero-carbon world
• How successfully can the Arctic Council tackle climate change?
• HSBC outlines four ways to divest from fossil fuels
• 10 of the best YouTube videos on climate change
• Scientists set out eight essential elements for UN climate deal
• Is BP’s shareholder resolution really an “activist victory”?
• Explainer: What we know about the Pope’s encyclical
• Forest degradation as bad for climate as deforestation, says report
• Explainer: What are ‘Intended Nationally Determined Contributions’?
• Are National Trust libraries at risk from climate change?
• Cost of carbon should be 200% higher today, say economists
• Why is a disaster risk reduction deal important for climate change?
• More coal plants are being cancelled than built