100 articles from Carbon Brief between October 2022 and April 2023
April 2023
- Guest post: How Boaty McBoatface is becoming instrumental for ocean science
- Cropped 5 April 2023: Carbon offsets scrutinised; UN water talks; IPCC beef and food fraud
- Loss and damage: How can culture and heritage loss be measured and addressed?
March 2023
- In-depth Q&A: The UK’s ‘green day’ avalanche of climate and energy announcements
- CCC: England has ‘lost a decade’ in fight to prepare for climate change impacts
- Guest post: The gaps in India’s ‘heat action plans’
- Carbon Brief’s definitive guide to the entire IPCC sixth assessment cycle
- Q&A: IPCC wraps up its most in-depth assessment of climate change
- The Carbon Brief Interview: ‘Loss-and-damage’ finance pioneer Robert Van Lierop
- Cropped 22 March 2023: Willow project approved; Post-Brexit trade deal; Ocean roundup
- Guest post: How the energy crisis is boosting heat pumps in Europe
- ‘Exceptional’ surge in methane emissions from wetlands worries scientists
- Q&A: How the EU wants to race to net-zero with ‘Green Deal Industrial Plan’
- Guest post: What 13,500 citations reveal about the IPCC’s climate science report
- Analysis: Fuel-duty freezes have increased UK CO2 emissions by up to 7%
- Arctic sea ice winter peak in 2023 is fifth lowest on record
- UK spring budget 2023: Key climate and energy announcements
- Regrowth of degraded tropical forests offsets ‘a quarter’ of deforestation emissions
- Analysis: How the diversity of IPCC authors has changed over three decades
- Heavy rainfall from New Zealand’s Cyclone Gabrielle ‘more common on warmer planet’
- Food waste makes up ‘half’ of global food system emissions
- Climate resilience: Is the UK ready for the impacts of global warming?
- CCC: Here’s how the UK can get reliable zero-carbon electricity by 2035
- Cropped 8 March 2023: High seas; Trees; Wildlife unease
- Q&A: What does the ‘High Seas Treaty’ mean for climate change and biodiversity?
- Guest post: How climate adaptation plans for European cities are gradually getting better
- Analysis: UK emissions fall 3.4% in 2022 as coal use drops to lowest level since 1757
February 2023
- Heat pumps ‘up to three times cheaper’ than green hydrogen in Europe, study finds
- Cropped 22 February 2023: Amazon healing; Bird flu; Safeguard mechanism
- Guest post: Can higher ambition in developed countries create ‘carbon space’ for others?
- China: What the world’s largest food system means for climate change
- The Carbon Brief Profile: Nigeria
- Guest post: How quickly does the world need to ‘phase down’ all fossil fuels?
- South American drought in 2022 partly driven by ‘triple-dip’ La Niña
- Recent Alps snow cover decline ‘unprecedented’ in past 600 years
- Analysis: Contradictory coal data clouds China’s CO2 emissions ‘rebound’ in 2022
- Guest post: The causes and impacts of Pacific north-west’s brutal 2021 heatwave
- Fertiliser emissions could be cut to ‘one-fifth of current levels’ by 2050
- Cropped 8 February 2023: UK nature plans; EU-Mercosur talks; US logging ban
- Renewables will be world’s top electricity source within three years, IEA data reveals
- Tropical forests face ‘substantial carbon loss’ as humid areas contract
- Media reaction: US Inflation Reduction Act and the global ‘clean-energy arms race’
- Q&A: Will the UK’s new farm payments cut emissions and help nature?
January 2023
- Wind and solar were EU’s top electricity source in 2022 for first time ever
- Guest post: How can nature-based solutions help cities achieve their climate goals?
- Amazon’s least-deforested areas are due to ‘vital role’ of Indigenous peoples
- Climate change could make parts of Lebanon ‘too hot’ for producing olive oil
- Cropped 25 January 2023: Carbon offsets controversy; Trade wars; Methane round-up
- Guest post: How the UK’s push to reach net-zero could deliver key health benefits
- Guest post: Can ‘green hydrogen’ grow fast enough for 1.5C?
- Vacancy: Section Editor (Policy)
- Guest post: How the South Atlantic is overcoming its history as an under-researched ocean
- Guest post: The state of ‘carbon dioxide removal’ in seven charts
- State of the climate: How the world warmed in 2022
- Net-zero is ‘economic opportunity of 21st century’ for UK, says Skidmore review
- Explainer: Can the world ‘halt and reverse’ biodiversity loss by 2030?
- Tonga volcano eruption raises ‘imminent’ risk of temporary 1.5C breach
- Cropped 11 January 2023: Brazil under Lula; COP15 reaction; EU deforestation law
- Met Office: A review of the UK’s climate in 2022
- Analysis: How UK newspapers commented on energy and climate change in 2022
- Logged tropical forests are a ‘substantial’ carbon source for at least 10 years
- Half of world’s glaciers to ‘disappear’ with 1.5C of global warming
- Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2022
December 2022
- Cropped 21 December 2022: COP15 special edition
- Vacancy: Digital Content Executive
- Argentina’s record-breaking 2022 heatwave made ‘60 times more likely’ by climate change
- COP15: Key outcomes agreed at the UN biodiversity conference in Montreal
- Video: What needs to happen to make the COP15 Global Biodiversity Framework a success?
- Richest people in UK ‘use more energy flying’ than poorest do overall
- Guest post: ‘Fair’ climate-finance flows should be at least $250bn per year
- Guest post: Why the southern hemisphere is stormier than the northern
- Polar bears and climate change: What does the science say?
- State of the climate: 2022 is currently tied for fourth warmest year on record
- Interactive: Tracking progress at the COP15 biodiversity summit
- Analysis: IEA’s renewables forecast grows 76% in two years after ‘largest ever’ revision
- Interactive: Who wants what at the COP15 biodiversity summit
- Heat pumps are the ‘central technology’ for low-carbon heating, concludes IEA
November 2022
- Guest post: Intensive, lower-carbon animal farming could raise pandemic risks
- Vacancy: Section Editor (China)
- Cropped 24 November 2022: Deforestation pledges; Food systems at COP27; EU fertiliser communication
- COP27: Key outcomes for food, forests, land and nature at the UN climate talks in Egypt
- COP27: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Sharm el-Sheikh
- West Africa’s deadly rainfall in 2022 made ‘80 times more likely’ by climate change
- Guest post: What the tiny remaining 1.5C carbon budget means for climate policy
- Analysis: Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels hit record high in 2022
- Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP27?
- Analysis: US falling $32bn short on ‘fair share’ of $100bn climate-finance goal
- Explainer: How can climate finance be increased from ‘billions to trillions’?
- Analysis: EU’s CO2 emissions fall 5% in three months after post-Covid surge
- Guest post: Discovering a potential ‘tipping point’ for Congo’s tropical peatland
- Interactive: Who wants what at the COP27 climate change summit
- Cropped 2 November 2022: Brazilian election results; Africa’s weather extremes; Food systems at COP27
- Guest post: Mapping the most influential Twitter accounts during COP26
October 2022
- In-depth: Russia’s war means fossil fuels will peak within five years, IEA says
- ‘Poor tropical regions’ suffer greatest economic damage from worsening heatwaves
- UNEP: Meeting global climate goals now requires ‘rapid transformation of societies’
- Analysis: Africa’s unreported extreme weather in 2022 and climate change
- Guest post: What gets prioritised and ignored at UN climate negotiations?
- New fossil fuels ‘incompatible’ with 1.5C goal, comprehensive analysis finds
- Cropped, 19 October 2022: Gabon’s carbon credits; Living Planet report; Agriculture investigations