100 articles from Carbon Brief between October 2020 and May 2021
May 2021
- China Briefing, 27 May 2021: Crypto crackdown; ETS launch nears; Energy-saving data centres
- 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
- China Briefing, 20 May 2021: Emissions growth fastest in a decade; Xinjiang plant rejects ‘forced labour’ claims; Regions urged to cut energy use
- 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’
- China Briefing, 13 May 2021: Greta Thunberg criticised; Former energy official arrested; EV boom makes ‘richest man’
- 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’
- Analysis: When might the world exceed 1.5C and 2C of global warming?
- Analysis: Surge in China’s steel production helps to fuel record-high CO2 emissions
- Guest post: Investigating climate change’s ‘humidity paradox’
November 2020
- Guest post: Why climate change will cause more ‘strong’ Indian Ocean Dipole events
- In-depth Q&A: Does the world need hydrogen to solve climate change?
- Guest post: The perils of counter-intuitive design in IPCC graphics
- Media reaction: Boris Johnson’s ‘10-point’ net-zero plan for climate change
- Media reaction: What Joe Biden’s US election victory means for climate change
- IEA: Wind and solar capacity will overtake both gas and coal globally by 2024
- US election: Climate experts react to Joe Biden’s victory
October 2020
- Guest post: How declining ice in clouds makes high ‘climate sensitivity’ plausible
- Mapped: How climate change disproportionately affects women’s health
- The Carbon Brief Quiz 2020
- State of the climate: 2020 on course to be warmest year on record