Recent Carbon Brief articles by Lauri Myllyvirta

• Analysis: China’s CO2 climbs 2% in early 2026 due to ‘wasted’ wind and solar
• Analysis: China’s new carbon metric leaves Germany-sized gap in its emissions
• Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months
• Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records
• Q&A: Five key climate questions for China’s next ‘five-year plan’
• Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months
• Analysis: Record solar growth keeps China’s CO2 falling in first half of 2025
• Analysis: China’s clean-energy exports in 2024 alone will cut overseas CO2 by 1%
• 分析：清洁能源首次助力中国碳排放下降
• Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time
• Analysis: Clean energy contributed a record 10% of China’s GDP in 2024
• 分析：2024年中国清洁能源创纪录增长遏制CO2上升
• Analysis: Record surge of clean energy in 2024 halts China’s CO2 rise
• 分析：尽管煤电反弹，但中国2024年三季度碳排放未增长
• Analysis: No growth for China’s emissions in Q3 2024 despite coal-power rebound
• 分析：中国二季度CO2排放量下降1%，疫后首现季度下降
• Analysis: China’s CO2 falls 1% in Q2 2024 in first quarterly drop since Covid-19
• 分析：中国清洁能源发展使五月燃煤发电份额降至53%的历史低点
• Analysis: China’s clean energy pushes coal to record-low 53% share of power in May 2024
• Analysis: Monthly drop hints that China’s CO2 emissions may have peaked in 2023
• Analysis: Record drop in China’s CO2 emissions needed to meet 2025 target
• Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of China’s economic growth in 2023
• Analysis: China’s emissions set to fall in 2024 after record growth in clean energy
• Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions in Q2 2023 rebound to 2021’s record levels 
• Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions hit Q1 record high after 4% rise in early 2023 
• Analysis: Contradictory coal data clouds China’s CO2 emissions ‘rebound’ in 2022
• Analysis: EU’s CO2 emissions fall 5% in three months after post-Covid surge
• Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall by record 8% in second quarter of 2022
• Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions see longest sustained drop in a decade
• Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions see first quarterly fall since post-lockdown surge
• Analysis: China’s post-lockdown emissions surge shows signs of cooling
• Analysis: China’s carbon emissions grow at fastest rate for more than a decade
• 分析：中国二氧化碳排放量在2020年下半年飙升4%
• Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions surged 4% in second half of 2020
• Analysis: China’s new 2030 targets promise more low-carbon power than meets the eye
• 分析：中国粗钢产量激增，助推二氧化碳排放量创下历史新高
• Analysis: Surge in China’s steel production helps to fuel record-high CO2 emissions
• 高影响力学者揭示中国如何达成“碳中和”目标
• Influential academics reveal how China can achieve its ‘carbon neutrality’ goal
• Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions surged past pre-coronavirus levels in May
• 分析：中国会在十年内新建百余座燃煤电厂吗？
• 分析：冠状病毒暂时减少了中国四分之一的二氧化碳排放量
• Analysis: Coronavirus temporarily reduced China’s CO2 emissions by a quarter
• Analysis: India’s CO2 emissions growth poised to slow sharply in 2019
• 客座文章：为何中国二氧化碳排放在2019年上半年增长了4%
• Guest post: Why China’s CO2 emissions grew 4% during first half of 2019