100 articles from Carbon Brief between April 2026 and July 2026
July 2026
- Q&A: What the EU’s carbon market review means for climate action
- Debriefed 17 July 2026: UK ‘firewave’ | Fossil-fuelled heat deaths | London’s Natural History Museum spotlights climate
- Q&A: Europe’s May and June heatwave deaths – and how they were counted
- UK withdraws millions in funding from world’s second-largest rainforest in Congo
- Cropped 15 July 2026: Uganda starves | Trump opens endangered habitats | UK cuts rainforest aid
- 28 quotes from new UK leader Andy Burnham on climate, net-zero and fossil fuels
- Interview: COP31 president says electrification is ‘surest way to protect citizens’
- DeBriefed 10 July 2026: Deadly Europe heat | EU electrification leak | COP31 president interview
- Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate
- China Briefing 9 July 2026: Guangxi floods | ‘Beautiful China’ plan | New EU-China mechanism
- Interview: Dr Sun Yixian on his new database tracking Chinese climate ‘leadership’
- Cited 7 July 2026: ‘Impossible’ heat | Global ocean record | Climate change and the ozone hole
- Guest post: France’s June heatwave caused more than 2,700 heat-related deaths
- DeBriefed 3 July 2026: US faces scorching Independence Day | Record ocean temperatures | Vietnam’s EV surge
- Q&A: How will the World Bank’s abandoned finance goal affect climate action?
- Q&A: Where do the UN secretary general candidates stand on climate change?
- Analysis: UK newspapers have already printed 63 editorials in 2026 backing North Sea drilling
- Cropped 1 July 2026: Heatwave scorches Europe | UK 2050 farm plan | What’s next for the High Seas Treaty
June 2026
- Six charts show how clean power was world’s largest source of new energy in 2025
- Guest post: Climate change has caused one-fifth of Pine Island glacier retreat
- DeBriefed 26 June 2026: Heat records broken across Europe | London climate action week | Introducing ‘Project Cosmos’
- Q&A: What change of power in Colombia could mean for world’s fossil-fuel transition
- Media reaction: How climate change intensified Europe’s record-breaking June heat
- China Briefing 25 June 2026: Five-year plans passed | Critical-mineral tensions | Industrial decarbonisation plan
- Livestock heat deaths in transit doubled in UK record-hot summer of 2025
- Analysis: UK sales of electric vehicles just overtook petrol cars for the first time
- Guest post: How US renewable-energy growth persists despite federal policy uncertainty
- Mombasa: Key outcomes from the Our Ocean Conference in Kenya
- CCC: Faster electrification of UK will ‘put money back into people’s pockets’
- Cited 23 June 2026: Project Cosmos launch | Science ‘under attack’ at Bonn | Emissions inequality
- Prof Philippe Ciais: The world’s most highly cited climate scientist
- Prof Detlef van Vuuren: The climate scientist most cited by the IPCC
- Carbon Brief’s ranking of the most highly cited institutions
- Introducing Project Cosmos: Carbon Brief’s ‘universe’ of climate science
- Carbon Brief’s ranking of the most highly cited climate scientists
- Carbon Brief’s ranking of the most highly cited climate publications
- Mapped: Inside Carbon Brief’s Cosmos database of 1.8 million climate studies
- Project Cosmos
- DeBriefed 19 June 2026: Bonn talks end in ‘gridlock’ | Energy’s ‘new era’ | Oceans in climate negotiations
- Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2026 UN climate conference
- Experts: Why carbon removal needs a ‘major scale up’ to return warming to 1.5C
- Q&A: What do China’s provincial five-year plans say about climate and energy?
- Cropped 17 June 2026: Coral reef ‘hope’ | Ocean talks | Plant flowering times ‘shift’
- Analysis: Energy-efficient air conditioning could save Indian homes 69bn rupees a year
- Analysis: UK’s EV drivers are now saving £1,100 each a year – and £3bn in total
- DeBriefed 12 June 2026: El Niño begins | COP31 hosts eye electrification | Atlantic current monitoring at risk
- Analysis: Solar overtakes gas power in Asia for first time ever
- China Briefing 11 June 2026: Tech clampdown | Extreme weather | Provinces’ energy plans
- Guest post: How a record-high ‘energy imbalance’ is driving global warming
- Cited 9 June 2026: Europe’s ‘exceptional’ heatwave | Warming forecast | AMOC observations ‘at risk’
- DeBriefed 5 June 2026: UK eyes 2040 emissions cut | US ‘dismantling’ oceans research | China’s solar slump
- Chart: Why China’s solar boom is slowing down
- Analysis: China’s CO2 climbs 2% in early 2026 due to ‘wasted’ wind and solar
- Cropped 3 June 2026: Highway through the Amazon | El Niño impact | State of CO2 removal
- Q&A: How UK’s seventh carbon budget will deliver ‘£865bn’ in economic benefits
- Q&A: The current state of ‘carbon dioxide removal’ around the world
May 2026
- DeBriefed 29 May 2026: Europe’s ‘mind-boggling’ May | Indian heat deaths | Nigeria’s solar mini-grids
- AI boom means US is now ‘investing more’ in fossil-fuel power than China
- EM-DAT: Trump aid cuts could close database storing ‘world’s memory of disasters’
- China Briefing 28 May 2026: Deadly rains | China pushes back | Examining China’s carbon intensity metric
- Media reaction: UK and Europe’s ‘mind-boggling’ May heat and climate change
- Q&A: Can China turn hydrogen into its next clean-energy industry?
- Analysis: China’s new carbon metric leaves Germany-sized gap in its emissions
- Revealed: Floods have forced at least 67 closures at NHS hospitals since 2021
- DeBriefed 22 May 2026: UN adopts landmark resolution | Trump takes on ‘RCP8.5’ | Climate migration
- Experts: Why migration is ‘not a failure of adaptation’ in a warming world
- Guest post: How CMIP7 will shape the next wave of climate science
- New coal plants hit ‘10-year’ global high in 2025 – but power output still fell
- Cropped 20 May 2026: Deforestation roadmap | Melanesian Ocean Summit | Returning pet parrots to the wild
- CCC: Investing in ‘urgent’ UK adaptation action ‘cheaper than climate damages’
- Factcheck: Trump’s false claims about the IPCC and ‘RCP8.5’ climate scenario
- Factcheck: US and Iran are world’s only major emitters without net-zero targets
- DeBriefed 15 May 2026: Trump-Xi talk energy | ‘Supercharged’ El Niño | India’s first ‘heat lounges’
- Analysis: UK no longer top UN Green Climate Fund donor after latest aid cut
- DeBriefed 8 May 2026: EU eyes fossil-fuel exemptions | Wind and solar save UK ‘£1.7bn’ | Amazon ‘tipping point’
- Factcheck: What the UK car industry is not saying about EV targets
- Analysis: Wind and solar have saved UK from gas imports worth £1.7bn since Iran war began
- Cropped 6 May 2026: Forest loss falls | Deforestation regulations | Saving ‘India’s Galapagos’
- Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief
- Q&A: How countries got the global ‘net-zero’ shipping deal ‘back on track’
- DeBriefed 1 May 2026: Countries chart path away from fossil fuels | China’s clean-tech surge | Global forest loss slows
April 2026
- Santa Marta: Key outcomes from first summit on ‘transitioning away’ from fossil fuels
- China Briefing 30 April 2026: Fossil fuel ‘strict controls’ | El Niño approaches | Why cleantech exports have surged
- Traditional models still ‘outperform AI’ for extreme weather forecasts
- World ‘will not see significant return to coal’ in 2026 – despite Iran crisis
- DeBriefed 24 April 2026: Europe’s energy-crisis plan | Renewables overtake coal | Colombia’s fossil-fuel summit
- Q&A: China’s leadership calls for ‘strict control’ of fossil fuels
- AMOC: Is global warming tipping key Atlantic ocean currents towards ‘collapse’?
- Iran war: EU strategy sets out 44 actions to limit ‘fossil-fuel price shocks’
- Cropped 22 April 2026: Global food ‘catastrophe’ | BECCS emissions | UK solar farm controversy
- Q&A: How the UK government aims to ‘break link between gas and electricity prices’
- State of the climate: Strong El Niño puts 2026 on track for second-warmest year
- Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’
- Revealed: Scientists tell Colombia fossil-fuel transition summit to ‘halt new expansion’
- DeBriefed 17 April 2026: Fossil-fuel power slumps | ‘Super’ El Niño warning | Afghanistan’s climate struggle
- Q&A: What Magyar’s defeat of Orbán in Hungary means for climate and energy
- China Briefing 16 April 2026: Billions for grid | Petrochemical plan | China’s high-seas bid
- Marine heatwaves ‘nearly double’ the economic damage caused by tropical cyclones
- DeBriefed 10 April 2026: Worst energy crisis ‘ever’ | India withdraws COP33 bid | Drag artists and climate change
- Iran war analysis: How 60 nations have responded to the global energy crisis