Recent Carbon Brief articles by Carbon Brief Staff
- Cropped 3 December 2025: Extreme weather in Africa; COP30 roundup; Saudi minister interview
- Guest post: Why carbon emissions from fires are significantly higher than thought
- Revealed: Leak casts doubt on COP30’s ‘informal list’ of fossil-fuel roadmap opponents
- UK budget 2025: Key climate and energy announcements
- COP30: Key outcomes for food, forests, land and nature at the UN climate talks in Belém
- Webinar: Carbon Brief’s third ‘ask us anything’ at COP30
- COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém
- COP30 DeBriefed 21 November 2025: ‘Mutirão’ text latest; ‘Roadmaps’ explained; COP finish times plotted
- Cropped 19 November 2025: COP30 edition
- Webinar: Carbon Brief’s second ‘ask us anything’ at COP30
- COP30 DeBriefed 14 November 2025: Finance and 1.5C loom large at talks; China’s emissions dip; Negotiations explained
- China Briefing 13 November 2025: COP30 special
- Met Office: Ten years of naming UK storms to warn the public
- Analysis: Fossil-fuel CO2 emissions to set new record in 2025, as land sink ‘recovers’
- IEA: Fossil-fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless ‘stated policies’ are abandoned
- Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP30?
- Webinar: Carbon Brief’s first ‘ask us anything’ at COP30
- Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at the COP30 climate summit
- Ongoing failure to agree AR7 timeline is ‘unprecedented’ in IPCC history
- COP30: What does the ‘Baku to Belém roadmap’ mean for climate finance?
- Cropped 5 November 2025: Nature finance at COP30; Storms devastate crops; Brazilian deforestation decline
- COP30: Could Brazil’s ‘Tropical Forest Forever’ fund help tackle climate change?
- Interactive: Who wants what at the COP30 climate change summit
- UNEP: New country climate plans ‘barely move needle’ on expected warming
- Q&A: The UK government’s ‘carbon budget delivery plan’ for 2035
- UN report: Five charts which explain the ‘gap’ in finance for climate adaptation
- Cropped 22 October 2025: Global forest loss dips; Bird species in peril; Climate impact on Thai trees
- Global wildfires burned an area of land larger than India in 2024
- Guest post: How Caribbean states are shaping climate legislation
- Cropped 8 October 2025: US government shutdown; EU loses green space; Migratory species extinction threat
- Overshoot: Exploring the implications of meeting 1.5C climate goal ‘from above’
- Experts: The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting the 1.5C global-warming limit
- Factcheck: What the Climate Change Act does – and does not – mean for the UK
- DeBriefed 3 October 2025: UK political gap on climate widens; Fossil-fuelled Typhoon Ragasa; ‘Overshoot’ unknowns
- EAT-Lancet report: Three key takeaways on climate and diet change
- Antarctic sea ice winter peak in 2025 is third smallest on record
- Webinar: Experts discuss what China’s new climate pledge means for the world
- Analysis: Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far
- Analysis: Half of global emissions covered by 2035 climate pledges after UN summit in New York
- Q&A: What does China’s new Paris Agreement pledge mean for climate action?
- Cropped 24 September 2025: High Seas Treaty milestone; ‘Erratic’ water cycle; Family food at COP30
- Guest post: Fungal infections are adapting to climate change – and threatening public health
- Analysis: India’s power-sector CO2 falls for only second time in half a century
- Debriefed 12 September 2025: Africa calls for promised finance; Deadly heat linked to big oil; How to tackle net-zero backlash
- Cropped 10 September 2025: Flooded ‘food baskets’; Brazil eyes forest finance; Resilient rice
- Guest post: How adaptation has cut flood deaths and losses in Europe
- Guest post: How the role of carbon storage has been hugely overestimated
- Factcheck: North Sea gas is not ‘four times cleaner’ than LNG imports
- Q&A: How China is adapting to ‘more frequent and intense’ heat extremes
- DeBriefed 29 August 2025: Record wildfires; Solar myths factchecked; Climate veteran on COP reform
- Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar power
- Cropped 27 August 2025: ‘Frustrating’ Amazon summit; Workplace heat hazards; Record European wildfires
- Guest post: China and India account for 87% of new coal-power capacity so far in 2025
- Guest post: Is climate change making UK droughts worse?
- Guest post: Why the recent slowdown in Arctic sea ice loss is only temporary
- Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims
- Cropped 13 August 2025: Fossil-fuelled bird decline; ‘Deadly’ wildfires; Empty nature fund
- Guest post: Why China is still building new coal – and when it might stop
- Analysis: England’s most ethnically diverse areas are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat
- Analysis: Record UK wildfires have burned an area twice the size of Glasgow in 2025
- Guest post: What an ‘ambitious’ 2035 electricity target looks like for China
- Analysis: Trump’s tariffs could cut just 0.3% from global CO2 emissions in 2025
- Cropped 30 July 2025: ‘Unprecedented’ ocean heatwaves; ‘Uneven’ hunger progress; Brazil’s ‘devastation bill’
- UN report: Five charts explaining the rise of global food insecurity
- ICJ: What the world court’s landmark opinion means for climate change
- Climate change is creating ‘new vulnerabilities’ for disease pandemics
- The Carbon Brief Interview: UK climate envoy Rachel Kyte
- Cropped 16 July 2025: EU deforestation law pushback; Agri emissions; US lobster disease
- 嘉宾来稿：探究火山喷发如何影响气候预测
- Media reaction: The 2025 Texas floods and the role of climate change
- Experts: Which climate tipping point is the most concerning?
- Tipping points: Window to avoid irreversible climate impacts is ‘rapidly closing’
- DeBriefed 4 July 2025: Trump ‘megabill’ guts clean energy; Europe’s record heat; Scientists discuss ‘most worrying’ tipping points
- Chart: Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ blows US emissions goal by 7bn tonnes
- Q&A: European Commission’s proposal to cut EU emissions 90% by 2040
- Cropped 2 July 2025: US public lands under attack; How India’s gig workers are suffering under climate change; Bonn to Belém
- DeBriefed 27 June 2025: Heat domes; Bonn comes to a close; Gender clash in climate talks
- Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2025 UN climate conference
- China Briefing 26 June 2025: First UK-China climate dialogue; China-climate conference summary; Oil peak ‘in 2027’
- CCC: UK climate advisers now ‘more optimistic’ net-zero goals can be met
- Guest post: Investigating how volcanic eruptions can affect climate projections
- Guest post: How solar panels and batteries can now run ‘close to 24/365’ in some cities
- Guest post: How the world’s rivers are releasing billions of tonnes of ‘ancient’ carbon
- Guest post: Why 2024’s global temperatures were unprecedented, but not surprising
- Cropped 18 June 2025: High Seas Treaty ratifications; Ocean warming woes; Brazilian deforestation ‘surges’
- 中国农机排放量上升或“阻碍”净零目标实现
- Analysis: Reform-led councils threaten 6GW of solar and battery schemes across England
- Chart: The rise, fall and rise of UK nuclear power over eight decades
- Guest post: How climate change is fuelling record-breaking extreme weather
- Guest post: China’s ‘capacity payments’ boosted coal-plant revenue by up to 8%
- UK spending review 2025: Key climate and energy announcements
- Guest post: Why the global area for regrowing trees is 71% smaller than thought
- 解读：何为中国城市低碳转型的“深圳模式”？
- Guest post: How ‘feedback loops’ and ‘non-linear thinking’ can inform climate policy
- Analysis: UK’s solar power surges 42% after sunniest spring on record
- Cropped 4 June 2025: ‘Tricks’ and ‘cover-ups’; Wild weather; Former UN nature negotiator interviewed
- Explainer: What is China’s ‘Shenzhen model’ for low-carbon transition in cities?
- Guest post: How marine life provides climate benefits worth billions of dollars
- Factcheck: Why expensive gas – not net-zero – is keeping UK electricity prices so high
- Svalbard: Can scientists salvage climate data from rapidly melting glaciers?