100 articles from Carbon Brief between September 2025 and January 2026
January 2026
- Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time
- DeBriefed 16 January 2026: Three years of record heat; China and India coal milestone; Beijing’s 2026 climate outlook
- Brazil’s biodiversity pledge: Six key takeaways for nature and climate change
- Experts: What to expect from China on energy and climate action in 2026
- Prof Ben Santer: Trump administration is ‘embracing ignorance’ on climate science
- Q&A: What UK’s record auction for offshore wind means for bills and clean power by 2030
- Cropped 14 January 2026: Wildfires scorch three continents; EU trade; Food and nature in 2026
- State of the climate: 2025 in top-three hottest years on record as ocean heat surges
- Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2025
- Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records
- DeBriefed 9 January 2026: US to exit global climate treaty; Venezuelan oil ‘uncertainty’; ‘Hardest truth’ for Africa’s energy transition
- Q&A: What Trump’s US exit from UNFCCC and IPCC could mean for climate action
- Analysis: World’s biggest historic polluter – the US – is pulling out of UN climate treaty
- Analysis: UK renewables enjoy record year in 2025 – but gas power still rises
December 2025
- DeBriefed 19 December 2025: EU’s petrol car U-turn; Trump to axe ‘leading’ research lab; What climate scientists are reading
- Guest post: How to steer EVs towards the road of ‘mass adoption’
- Hydrogen emissions are ‘supercharging’ the warming impact of methane
- IEA: Declining coal demand in China set to outweigh Trump’s pro-coal policies
- Cropped 17 December 2025: ‘Deadly’ Asia floods; Boosting London’s water birds; UN headwinds
- Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2025
- Guest post: Why cities need more than just air conditioning for extreme heat
- DeBriefed 12 December: EU under ‘pressure’; ‘Unusual warmth’ explained; Rise of climate boardgames
- ‘Cali Fund’ aiming to raise billions for nature receives first donation – of just $1,000
- China Briefing 11 December 2025: Winter record looms; Joint climate statement with France; How ‘mid-level bureaucrats’ help shape policy
- Q&A: Five key climate questions for China’s next ‘five-year plan’
- Net-zero scenario is ‘cheapest option’ for UK, says energy system operator
- Analysis: What are the causes of recent record-high global temperatures?
- Interview: How ‘mid-level bureaucrats’ are helping to shape Chinese climate policy
- DeBriefed 5 December: Deadly Asia floods; Adaptation finance target examined; Global south IPCC scientists speak out
- Cropped 3 December 2025: Extreme weather in Africa; COP30 roundup; Saudi minister interview
- Analysis: Why COP30’s ‘tripling adaptation finance’ target is less ambitious than it seems
- Asia-Pacific faces ‘$500bn-a-year’ hit from rising seas if current policies continue
- Guest post: Why carbon emissions from fires are significantly higher than thought
November 2025
- DeBriefed 28 November 2025: COP30’s ‘frustrating’ end; Asia floods; UK ‘emergency’ climate event
- Revealed: Leak casts doubt on COP30’s ‘informal list’ of fossil-fuel roadmap opponents
- China Briefing 27 November 2025: COP30 wraps; Climate and critical minerals at G20; Coal use up
- 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
- Analysis: Seven charts showing how the $100bn climate-finance goal was met
- 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?
- Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months
- Webinar: Carbon Brief’s first ‘ask us anything’ at COP30
- DeBriefed 7 November 2025: Leaders descend on Belém; UN warns of 1.5C breach; changing roles of climate scientists
- 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: COP30 could – finally – agree how to track the ‘global goal on adaptation’
October 2025
- DeBriefed 31 October 2025: Hurricane Melissa strikes Jamaica; Climate plans overshoot 1.5C; Protest crackdowns
- Q&A: The UK government’s ‘carbon budget delivery plan’ for 2035
- China Briefing 30 October 2025: 15th ‘five-year plan’ priorities; 2035 wind goal; ‘Vehicle-to-grid’ tech
- Q&A: How ‘vehicle-to-grid’ technology could boost China’s electricity system
- Q&A: The role of soil health in food security and tackling climate change
- UN report: Five charts which explain the ‘gap’ in finance for climate adaptation
- DeBriefed 24 October 2025: EU 2040 climate goal progress; Shipping industry carbon price delayed; Europe’s indigenous people take Finland to court
- UN report: Five charts showing how global deforestation is declining
- Rapid emissions cuts would avoid 64cm of ‘locked in’ sea level rise by 2300
- The Carbon Brief Interview: UK Met Office chief executive Penny Endersby
- Revealed: Only a third of national climate pledges support ‘transition away from fossil fuels’
- Cropped 22 October 2025: Global forest loss dips; Bird species in peril; Climate impact on Thai trees
- Analysis: Just 28% of countries have released nature pledges a year after UN deadline
- DeBriefed 17 October 2025: Earth’s first ‘tipping point’; Climate adviser interview; How warming affects children’s health
- China Briefing 16 October 2025: New export controls; IEA China projections; Provincial ‘Doc 136’ progress
- The Carbon Brief Interview: UK Climate Change Committee’s Emma Pinchbeck
- Global wildfires burned an area of land larger than India in 2024
- Analysis: Only half of Chinese provinces finalise key ‘Document 136’ renewable rules
- DeBriefed 10 October 2025: Renewables power past coal; Legacy of UK’s Climate Change Act; Fukushima’s solar future
- Guest post: How Caribbean states are shaping climate legislation
- IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries
- Cropped 8 October 2025: US government shutdown; EU loses green space; Migratory species extinction threat
- Q&A: How countries are using biofuels to meet their climate targets
- 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
- Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions
- EAT-Lancet report: Three key takeaways on climate and diet change
- China Briefing 2 October 2025: China’s new pledge; electricity demand slows; steel overcapacity
- Antarctic sea ice winter peak in 2025 is third smallest on record
September 2025
- 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
- DeBriefed 26 September 2025: China leads new climate pledges; Trump calls warming a ‘con job’; What comes next
- 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?
- Revealed: Use of heat ‘emergencies’ for rough sleepers hits record in England and Wales
- 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