100 articles from Carbon Brief between April 2020 and October 2020

October 2020

• 高影响力学者揭示中国如何达成“碳中和”目标
• Guest post: Demand for cooling is blind spot for climate and sustainable development
• Guest post: How the global coronavirus stimulus could put Paris Agreement on track
• Influential academics reveal how China can achieve its ‘carbon neutrality’ goal
• Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA
• Nitrogen fertiliser use could ‘threaten global climate goals’
• 分析：中国“后新冠”化石燃料重点项目三倍于“低碳”
• Guest post: How ‘urban heat islands’ will intensify heatwaves in UK cities

September 2020

• Greenland to lose ice far faster this century than in the past 12,000 years
• US election tracker 2020: Democrats and Republicans on energy and climate
• 分析：在2060年实现“碳中和”可使中国“更富足”
• Guest post: The oceans are absorbing more carbon than previously thought
• Vacancy: China specialist at Carbon Brief
• Analysis: Going carbon neutral by 2060 ‘will make China richer’
• US sees ‘alarming’ increase in combined heatwaves and droughts
• Analysis: China’s Covid stimulus plans for fossil fuels three times larger than low-carbon
• Arctic sea ice shrinks to second-lowest summer minimum on record
• Guest post: Calculating the true climate impact of aviation emissions
• Guest post: Are low- and middle-income countries bound to eat more meat?
• Webinar: Do we need to stop eating meat and dairy to tackle climate change?
• Guest post: Coronavirus food waste comes with huge carbon footprint
• Experts: How do diets need to change to meet climate targets?
• Analysis: World has already passed ‘peak oil’, BP figures reveal
• In-depth Q&A: What does the global shift in diets mean for climate change?
• Interactive: What is the climate impact of eating meat and dairy?
• Met Office: The UK’s record-breaking August 2020 heatwave
• Q&A: How the ‘climate assembly’ says the UK should reach net-zero
• Guest post: Why would anyone finance another coal power plant in China?
• Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2020
• Guest post: Why does land warm up faster than the oceans?

August 2020

• Guest post: How climate change is turning glaciers into lakes
• Guest post: Learning from the contentious history of ‘carbon removal’
• Wind and solar are 30-50% cheaper than thought, admits UK government
• Vacancy: Journalist at Carbon Brief
• Guest post: Are European cities delivering on their climate commitments?
• Tree planting can help tropical forests ‘recover 50% faster’ from logging
• 分析：2020年全球煤电容量首次下降
• Coronavirus: Green recovery ‘could prevent 0.3C’ of warming by 2050
• ‘Extreme’ glacier loss events linked to human-caused climate change for first time
• Analysis: The global coal fleet shrank for first time on record in 2020

July 2020

• State of the climate: 2020 set to be first or second warmest year on record
• In-depth: Hydrogen ‘required’ to meet UK net-zero goal, says National Grid
• Guest post: The era of ‘negative-subsidy’ offshore wind power has almost arrived
• Guest post: Who should be responsible for removing CO2 from the atmosphere?
• Webinar: Is climate change making wildfires worse?
• Guest post: Why low-end ‘climate sensitivity’ can now be ruled out
• Siberia’s 2020 heatwave made ‘600 times more likely’ by climate change
• Scientists concerned by ‘record high’ global methane emissions
• Explainer: How climate change is affecting wildfires around the world
• Guest post: Why Africa’s heatwaves are a forgotten impact of climate change
• Guest post: Global warming edges closer to Paris Agreement 1.5C limit
• Guest post: Where in the UK might be suitable for BECCS?
• Guest post: How public attitudes towards ‘CO2 removal’ differ in the UK and US
• Scientists discover new ‘human fingerprint’ on global drought patterns
• Guest post: How ‘discourses of delay’ are used to slow climate action
• Explainer: How the rise and fall of CO2 levels influenced the ice ages

June 2020

• Risk of 40C heat in the UK ‘rapidly increasing’, says Met Office
• Scientists shed light on human causes of North Atlantic’s ‘cold blob’
• South pole warmed ‘three times faster’ than global average over past 30 years
• Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions surged past pre-coronavirus levels in May
• Guest post: How climate change misinformation spreads online
• CCC: UK risks ‘egg on face’ unless it accelerates climate plans
• Land purchases by private companies accelerate tropical deforestation, data shows
• In-depth: BP data reveals clean electricity matched coal for the first time in 2019
• IEA: ‘Green’ coronavirus recovery would keep global emissions below 2019 peak
• Coronavirus: Tracking how the world’s ‘green recovery’ plans aim to cut emissions
• Jet stream: Is climate change causing more ‘blocking’ weather events?
• Guest post: Cost of extreme weather due to climate change is severely underestimated
• Warm spring worsened Europe’s extreme 2018 summer drought, study says
• ‘Construction fever’ responsible for one fifth of China’s CO2 emissions
• Guest post: How climate change could accelerate the threat of crop diseases
• Met Office: Why 2020 saw a record-breaking dry and sunny spring across the UK
• Guest post: China’s power sector could be ‘10% cheaper in 2030’ with more renewables
• World population facing water stress could ‘double’ by 2050 as climate warms
• Lions could prevent their prey from adapting to increasing heat, study says

May 2020

• Four more years of Donald Trump could ‘delay global emissions cuts by 10 years’
• IEA: Coronavirus ‘accelerating closure’ of ageing fossil-fuelled power plants
• Webinar: What impact is Covid-19 having on global CO2 emissions?
• Tropical forests can still store ‘high levels’ of carbon under 2C of warming
• Daily global CO2 emissions ‘cut to 2006 levels’ during height of coronavirus crisis
• Fuel savings in US cars have ‘cut 17bn tonnes of CO2 since 1975’
• Major tropical cyclones have become ‘15% more likely’ over past 40 years
• Q&A: Could climate change and biodiversity loss raise the risk of pandemics?
• विश्लेषण : कोरोनावायरस के चलते भारत में CO2 उत्सर्जन की वृद्धि में पिछले चार दशकों में पहली बार आयी कमी
• Guest post: A brief history of climate targets and technological promises
• Analysis: India’s CO2 emissions fall for first time in four decades amid coronavirus
• Analysis: What impact will the coronavirus pandemic have on atmospheric CO2?
• Leading economists: Green coronavirus recovery also better for economy
• Global warming has ‘changed’ spread of tropical cyclones around the world

April 2020

• IEA: Coronavirus impact on CO2 emissions six times larger than 2008 financial crisis
• Analysis: Coronavirus has cut CO2 from Europe’s electricity system by 39%
• Analysis: Great Britain hits coal-free electricity record amid coronavirus lockdown
• Guest post: Why coal phaseout is a ‘no-regret’ plan for tackling climate change
• State of the climate: First quarter of 2020 is second warmest on record
• Vacancy: Digital content executive
• Analysis: How ‘carbon-cycle feedbacks’ could make global warming worse
• Analysis: Coronavirus set to cause largest ever annual fall in CO2 emissions
• Deep emissions cuts this decade could prevent ‘abrupt ecological collapse’
• The Carbon Brief Profile: South Korea
• Met Office: The UK’s wet and warm winter of 2019-20