Recent Carbon Brief articles by Daisy Dunne

• Q&A: What change of power in Colombia could mean for world’s fossil-fuel transition
• EM-DAT: Trump aid cuts could close database storing ‘world’s memory of disasters’
• Santa Marta: Key outcomes from first summit on ‘transitioning away’ from fossil fuels
• Revealed: Scientists tell Colombia fossil-fuel transition summit to ‘halt new expansion’
• Analysis: Half of nations meet UN deadline for nature-loss reporting
• Q&A: How Trump is threatening climate science in Earth’s polar regions
• Revealed: Only a third of national climate pledges support ‘transition away from fossil fuels’
• Analysis: Just 28% of countries have released nature pledges a year after UN deadline
• Fossil-fuelled heat has caused tropical birds to decline by ‘up to 38%’ since 1950s
• Explainer: What is ‘climate anxiety’?
• World might have set itself an unachievable nature target, says former UK negotiator
• Factcheck: How the UK is – and is not – studying solar geoengineering
• Australia election 2025: Where parties stand on climate change, energy and nature
• UK belatedly publishes nature pledge at COP16 in Rome as it seeks ‘leadership role’
• Analysis: 95% of countries miss UN deadline to submit 2035 climate pledges
• COP16: More than 85% of countries miss UN deadline to submit nature pledges
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Louise Heathwaite
• UK misses deadline to submit nature pledge ahead of UN COP16 biodiversity summit
• Webinar: Carbon Brief joins scientists live at the UK’s Arctic Research Station
• Explainer: Why is climate change causing ‘record-shattering’ extreme heat?
• Analysis: UK could approve 13 new oil and gas projects despite North Sea pledge
• Q&A: What does the ‘landmark’ Horse Hill judgment mean for UK fossil fuels?
• Clean cooking: What new global pledge means for climate, nature and gender goals
• Alaska refuge drilling could threaten polar bears with ‘lethal’ oil spills
• Explainer: Why some countries are aiming for ‘net-negative’ emissions
• Mystery over ‘unexpectedly large’ emissions from Africa’s tropical ecosystems
• Ny-Ålesund: How UK scientists are studying climate change in the Arctic
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Chris Skidmore
• Analysis: Africa’s extreme weather has killed at least 15,000 people in 2023
• Sir David Attenborough: How polar ship will help scientists study climate change
• Factcheck: Why banning new North Sea oil and gas is not a ‘Just Stop Oil plan’
• Deadly drought in Horn of Africa ‘would not have happened’ without climate change
• Loss and damage: How can culture and heritage loss be measured and addressed?
• CCC: England has ‘lost a decade’ in fight to prepare for climate change impacts
• The Carbon Brief Profile: Nigeria
• Wind and solar were EU’s top electricity source in 2022 for first time ever
• Explainer: Can the world ‘halt and reverse’ biodiversity loss by 2030?
• Half of world’s glaciers to ‘disappear’ with 1.5C of global warming
• Analysis: Africa’s unreported extreme weather in 2022 and climate change
• Video: Why does nature loss receive less international attention than climate change?
• Explainer: Can climate change and biodiversity loss be tackled together?
• The Carbon Brief Interview: UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa
• Climate change made India and Pakistan’s 2022 early heatwave ‘30 times more likely’
• Climate change ‘already’ raising risk of virus spread between mammals
• The Carbon Brief Interview: UN biodiversity chief Elizabeth Maruma Mrema
• Factcheck: Can new UK oil and gas licences ever be ‘climate compatible’?
• Mapped: African world heritage sites threatened by sea level rise ‘to triple by 2050’
• Last refuges for coral reefs to disappear above 1.5C of global warming, study finds
• Mapped: How climate change disproportionately affects women’s health
• Nitrogen fertiliser use could ‘threaten global climate goals’
• Greenland to lose ice far faster this century than in the past 12,000 years
• US sees ‘alarming’ increase in combined heatwaves and droughts
• Interactive: What is the climate impact of eating meat and dairy?
• Tree planting can help tropical forests ‘recover 50% faster’ from logging
• ‘Extreme’ glacier loss events linked to human-caused climate change for first time
• Siberia’s 2020 heatwave made ‘600 times more likely’ by climate change
• Explainer: How climate change is affecting wildfires around the world
• Scientists discover new ‘human fingerprint’ on global drought patterns
• Risk of 40C heat in the UK ‘rapidly increasing’, says Met Office
• South pole warmed ‘three times faster’ than global average over past 30 years
• Land purchases by private companies accelerate tropical deforestation, data shows
• Warm spring worsened Europe’s extreme 2018 summer drought, study says
• World population facing water stress could ‘double’ by 2050 as climate warms
• Lions could prevent their prey from adapting to increasing heat, study says
• Tropical forests can still store ‘high levels’ of carbon under 2C of warming
• Major tropical cyclones have become ‘15% more likely’ over past 40 years
• Q&A: Could climate change and biodiversity loss raise the risk of pandemics?
• Global warming has ‘changed’ spread of tropical cyclones around the world
• Deep emissions cuts this decade could prevent ‘abrupt ecological collapse’
• Fossil fuel use not closely linked to longer life expectancy, study suggests
• Restoring soils could remove up to ‘5.5bn tonnes’ of greenhouse gases every year
• Q&A: Are the 2019-20 locust swarms linked to climate change?
• Climate change driving surge in ‘day-night hot extremes’ in northern hemisphere
• Climate change driving ‘rapid and widespread’ decline of bumblebees
• Tropical forests losing ability to absorb CO2, study says
• Explainer: How ‘Atlantification’ is making the Arctic Ocean saltier and warmer
• In-depth: Understanding the impacts of changing Arctic storms
• Inside MOSAiC: How a year-long Arctic expedition is helping climate science
• Rising water stress could counteract ‘global greening’, study says
• Africa’s tropical land emitted more CO2 than the US in 2016, satellite data shows
• Climate change made Europe’s 2019 record heatwave up to ‘100 times more likely’
• Global extent of climate change is ‘unparalleled’ in past 2,000 years
• France’s record-breaking heatwave made ‘at least five times’ more likely by climate change
• Cold-war spy photos reveal ‘doubling’ of glacier ice loss in Himalayas
• More than half the world could see ‘record-setting heat’ every year by 2100
• Northern hemisphere’s extreme heatwave in 2018 ‘impossible’ without climate change
• Profil Carbon Brief: Indonesia
• Japan’s deadly 2018 heatwave ‘could not have happened without climate change’
• Climate change is driving plankton towards the poles, study says
• European forests could ‘live fast and die young’ in a warming climate
• Climate change has influenced global drought risk for ‘more than a century’
• Climate change could ‘raise stress levels’ of endangered mountain gorillas
• Eating more offal could help cut meat emissions by ‘14%’
• Bottlenose dolphin numbers declined by ‘12%’ following marine heatwave
• Mosquito-borne diseases could reach extra ‘one billion people’ as climate warms
• The Carbon Brief Profile: Indonesia
• Halving global warming with solar geoengineering could ‘offset tropical storm risk’
• Ocean warming has caused ‘sustainable’ fish stocks to drop by 4% since 1930s
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Jonathan Bamber
• One-third of world’s new vegetation in China and India, satellite data shows