100 articles from Carbon Brief between January 2020 and July 2020

July 2020

• 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

March 2020

• Guest post: How energy-efficient LED bulbs lit up India in just five years
• Coronavirus: What could lifestyle changes mean for tackling climate change?
• 分析：中国会在十年内新建百余座燃煤电厂吗？
• Fossil fuel use not closely linked to longer life expectancy, study suggests
• Mapped: The world’s coal power plants
• Coal mines emit more methane than oil-and-gas sector, study finds
• Analysis: Will China build hundreds of new coal plants in the 2020s?
• In-depth Q&A: How will tree planting help the UK meet its climate goals?
• Guest post: Climate change could reverse falling inequality between countries
• Restoring soils could remove up to ‘5.5bn tonnes’ of greenhouse gases every year
• Budget 2020: Key climate and energy announcements
• Q&A: Are the 2019-20 locust swarms linked to climate change?
• Analysis: Fuel-duty freeze has increased UK CO2 emissions by up to 5%
• Guest post: The underappreciated influence of the tropics on the ‘jet stream’
• Guest post: Why China’s CO2 emissions grew less than feared in 2019
• Met Office: Why the UK saw record-breaking rainfall in February 2020
• Guest post: World’s intact tropical forests reached ‘peak carbon uptake’ in 1990s
• Climate strikers: Open letter to EU leaders on why their new climate law is ‘surrender’
• Analysis: UK’s CO2 emissions have fallen 29% over the past decade

February 2020

• Factcheck: What is the carbon footprint of streaming video on Netflix?
• 分析：冠状病毒暂时减少了中国四分之一的二氧化碳排放量
• Guest post: Are UK floods becoming worse due to climate change?
• The Carbon Brief Profile: Iran
• Methane emissions from fossil fuels ‘severely underestimated’
• Analysis: Coronavirus temporarily reduced China’s CO2 emissions by a quarter
• Guest post: How close is the West Antarctic ice sheet to a ‘tipping point’?
• Guest post: Could climate change and deforestation spark Amazon ‘dieback’?
• Guest post: The irreversible emissions of a permafrost ‘tipping point’
• Climate change driving surge in ‘day-night hot extremes’ in northern hemisphere
• Guest post: Could the Atlantic Overturning Circulation ‘shut down’?
• Explainer: Nine ‘tipping points’ that could be triggered by climate change
• Climate change driving ‘rapid and widespread’ decline of bumblebees
• Analysis: Why coal use must plummet this decade to keep global warming below 1.5C

January 2020

• Tropical forests losing ability to absorb CO2, study says
• CCC: One fifth of UK farmland must be used to tackle climate change
• Emissions from Chinese aviation ‘could quadruple by 2050’
• State of the climate: How the world warmed in 2019
• Explainer: How ‘Atlantification’ is making the Arctic Ocean saltier and warmer
• Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2019
• In-depth: Understanding the impacts of changing Arctic storms
• Guest post: A Met Office review of the UK’s weather in 2019
• Media reaction: Australia’s bushfires and climate change