100 articles from Carbon Brief between December 2020 and June 2021

June 2021

• Q&A: Will EU Common Agricultural Policy reforms help tackle climate change?
• Guest post: How attribution can fill the evidence ‘gap’ in climate litigation
• Guest post: Emissions should fall ‘twice as fast’ in case negative emissions fail
• Climate change has driven 16% drop in ‘snow meltwater’ from Asia’s high mountains
• In-depth Q&A: Will China’s emissions trading scheme help tackle climate change?
• CCC: UK will miss climate goals by ‘huge margin’ without new policies
• Guest post: Why CO2 removal is not equal and opposite to reducing emissions
• UN climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2021 virtual conference
• CCC: Adaptation to climate risks ‘underfunded and ignored’ by UK government
• Two-fifths of EU agricultural imports could be ‘highly vulnerable’ to drought by 2050
• Sustainable production of soy and maize could ‘boost yields and cut emissions’ in China
• Perfil Carbon Brief: México
• Guest post: Hundreds of planned coal mines ‘incompatible with 1.5C target’
• Guest post: G7 climate laws ‘cut emissions by 1.3bn tonnes in 2019’
• The Carbon Brief profile: Mexico
• Cooling effect of clouds ‘underestimated’ by climate models, says new study
• Explainer: China creates new ‘leaders group’ to help deliver its climate goals

May 2021

• Vacancy: Journalist at Carbon Brief
• Satellite data reveals impact of warming on global water cycle
• State of the climate: 2021 off to cooler start due to fading La Niña
• Analysis: China’s carbon emissions grow at fastest rate for more than a decade
• Analysis: How will England’s strategies for trees and peat help achieve net-zero by 2050?
• Hurricane Sandy caused an ‘extra $8bn’ damage due to human-caused sea level rise
• IEA: Renewables should overtake coal ‘within five years’ to secure 1.5C goal
• Guest post: Lessons learned from five years of extreme weather ‘rapid attribution’
• Guest post: Why the low carbon transition may be much cheaper than models predict
• Land-use change has affected ‘almost a third’ of world’s terrain since 1960
• ‘Exceptional new normal’: IEA raises growth forecast for wind and solar by another 25%
• Increasing droughts will drive ‘billions’ in economic losses in Europe
• Explication: Le réchauffement climatique s’arrêtera-t-il dès que les émissions nettes seront nulles?
• Limiting warming to 1.5C would ‘halve’ land-ice contribution to sea level rise by 2100
• Guest post: Overshooting 2C risks rapid and unstoppable sea level rise from Antarctica
• IEA: Mineral supplies for electric cars ‘must increase 30-fold’ to meet climate goals

April 2021

• Explainer: Will global warming ‘stop’ as soon as net-zero emissions are reached?
• Melting glaciers drove ‘21% of sea level rise’ over past two decades
• Guest post: How to assess the multiple interacting risks of climate change
• Guest post: A ‘Rosetta Stone’ for bringing land-mitigation pathways into line
• China’s 2060 climate pledge is ‘largely consistent’ with 1.5C goal, study finds
• The Carbon Brief Profile: United States
• Climate change could cause ‘irreversible impacts’ to lake ecosystems
• Guest post: How finance from rich nations could drive 40% of new coal plant emissions
• Guest post: How ‘high-resolution’ climate models will help Europe plan for extreme weather
• Climate change will hit ‘endemic’ plants and animals the hardest, study warns
• Guest post: The fate of Antarctic ice shelves at 1.5C, 2C and 4C of warming
• Guest post: Identifying three ‘tipping points’ in Antarctica’s Pine Island glacier

March 2021

• Arctic sea ice winter peak in 2021 is joint-seventh lowest on record
• Mapped: How ‘proxy’ data reveals the climate of the Earth’s distant past
• Scientists calculate trade-related ‘deforestation footprint’ of rich countries
• Guest post: How energy demand for cooling in India’s cities is changing
• China should ‘rapidly’ close 186 coal plants to help meet its climate goals, study says
• Guest post: How climate change drove food insecurity in the 2007 Lesotho drought
• In-depth Q&A: How the UK plans to cut industrial emissions by two-thirds
• Analysis: UK is now halfway to meeting its ‘net-zero emissions’ target
• Met Office: Atmospheric CO2 now hitting 50% higher than pre-industrial levels
• Q&A: What does China’s 14th ‘five year plan’ mean for climate change?
• New study challenges finding that climate change will drive dryland expansion
• Food systems responsible for ‘one third’ of human-caused emissions
• 分析：中国二氧化碳排放量在2020年下半年飙升4%
• Budget 2021: Key climate and energy announcements
• Guest post: Why ‘rebound effects’ may cut energy savings in half
• Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions surged 4% in second half of 2020

February 2021

• UN: New national climate pledges will only cut emissions ‘by 2%’ over next decade
• Guest post: The threat of high-probability ocean ‘tipping points’
• Media reaction: Texas ‘deep freeze’, power blackouts and the role of global warming
• Guest post: Calculating the carbon footprint of the NHS in England
• Guest post: Health benefits of Paris climate goals could save millions of lives by 2040
• 解读：中国可采用“债务转换”助力发展中国家应对气候变化
• Guest post: How global warming is making power plants produce less electricity
• Analysis: Shell says new ‘Brazil-sized’ forest would be needed to meet 1.5C climate goal
• Guest post: Why avoiding climate change ‘maladaptation’ is vital
• Factcheck: Did climate change contribute to India’s catastrophic ‘glacial flood’?
• IEA: India is on ‘cusp of a solar-powered revolution’
• Climate change has ‘worsened’ North America’s pollen season
• Q&A: Could an environmental inspector’s criticisms accelerate China’s climate policies?
• Scientists sceptical of new bat study linking climate change to Covid-19 emergence
• Guest post: How climate change threatens a Peruvian city with ‘glacial flood’
• Guest post: Lessons from Africa on climate change adaptation

January 2021

• Floating solar panels on 1% of reservoirs ‘could double’ Africa’s hydropower capacity
• Explainer: How China could offer ‘debt swaps’ to help developing nations tackle climate change
• Guest post: The role of ‘atmospheric rivers’ in UK winter floods
• Lake heatwaves will be ‘hotter and longer’ by the end of the century
• Guest post: Refining the remaining 1.5C ‘carbon budget’
• Q&A: What does the Brexit deal say about climate change and energy?
• State of the climate: 2020 ties as warmest year on record
• Climate change could have a ‘profound’ negative impact on child malnourishment
• Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2020
• Met Office: A review of the UK’s climate in 2020
• Analysis: Which countries met the UN’s 2020 deadline to raise ‘climate ambition’?
• Guest post: How to ‘fairly’ share emissions from goods traded around the world

December 2020

• Guest post: How human activity threatens the world’s carbon-rich peatlands
• Analysis: Why the new Met Office temperature record shows faster warming since 1970s
• In-depth Q&A: How does the UK’s ‘energy white paper’ aim to tackle climate change?
• New climate models suggest faster melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet
• Tackling gender inequality is ‘crucial’ for climate adaptation
• Analysis: China’s new 2030 targets promise more low-carbon power than meets the eye
• Global Carbon Project: Coronavirus causes ‘record fall’ in fossil-fuel emissions in 2020
• UNEP: Net-zero pledges provide an ‘opening’ to close growing emissions ‘gap’
• CCC: UK must cut emissions ‘78% by 2035’ to be on course for net-zero goal
• 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
• Emissions cuts in line with Paris Agreement would see benefits ‘within two decades’