100 articles from Carbon Brief between October 2025 and March 2026
March 2026
- How wildfires and storms drove insurance losses in 2025 – in three charts
- ‘Very alarming’ winter sees Arctic sea ice hit record-low for second year running
- Q&A: What does India’s new Paris Agreement pledge mean for climate action?
- Analysis: UK is ‘halving’ its climate finance for developing countries
- Guest post: How declining cloudiness is accelerating global warming
- Analysis: India’s CO2 emissions in 2025 grew at slowest rate in two decades
- Factcheck: Nine false or misleading myths about North Sea oil and gas
- Limiting global warming to 2C would not ‘rule out’ extreme impacts
- Analysis: CO2 from UK data centres could be ‘hundreds of times’ higher than thought
- The Carbon Brief Quiz 2026
- Q&A: What England’s new ‘land-use framework’ means for climate, nature and food
- Guest post: How changes to coal mining have affected China’s methane emissions
- Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world
- Q&A: Why does gas set the price of electricity – and is there an alternative?
- Q&A: How climate change and war threaten Iran’s water supplies
- Analysis: Why clean energy will cut UK gas imports by more than North Sea drilling
- Mapped: How extreme weather is destroying crops around the world
- CCC: Net-zero will protect UK from fossil-fuel price shocks
- Q&A: What does the Iran war mean for the energy transition and climate action?
- Heatwaves driving recent ‘surge’ in compound drought and heat extremes
- Q&A: What does China’s 15th ‘five-year plan’ mean for climate change?
- Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study
- Analysis: UK emissions fall 2.4% in 2025 as coal hits 400-year low
- Q&A: What the EU’s new industry and ‘Made in Europe’ rules mean for climate action
- Analysis: Half of nations meet UN deadline for nature-loss reporting
February 2026
- Analysis: Constituency of Reform’s climate-sceptic Richard Tice gets £55m flood funding
- Dangerous heat for Tour de France riders only a ‘question of time’
- Q&A: How Trump is threatening climate science in Earth’s polar regions
- Limiting warming to 2C is ‘crucial’ to protect pristine Antarctic Peninsula
- Ma Jun: ‘No business interest’ in Chinese coal power due to cheaper renewables
- Chris Stark: The economics of clean energy ‘just get better and better’
- Guest post: The challenges in projecting future global sea levels
- Q&A: What does Trump’s repeal of US ‘endangerment finding’ mean for climate action?
- Analysis: Trump has overseen larger coal decline than any other US president
- Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months
- Q&A: New UK onshore wind and solar is ‘50% cheaper’ than new gas
- IPBES chair Dr David Obura: Trump’s US exit from global nature panel ‘harms everybody’
- Climate change made ‘fire weather’ in Chile and Argentina three times more likely
- G7 ‘falling behind’ China as world’s wind and solar plans reach new high in 2025
- IPBES: Four key takeaways on how nature loss threatens the global economy
- 分析:清洁能源2025年为中国GDP增长贡献超过三分之一
- Analysis: Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025
- Five key climate and energy announcements in India’s budget for 2026
- ‘Rush’ for new coal in China hits record high in 2025 as climate deadline looms
January 2026
- Factcheck: What it really costs to heat a home in the UK with a heat pump
- Experts: Will Chinese wind power help or hinder Europe’s climate goals?
- Met Office: A review of the UK’s climate in 2025
- Climate change and La Niña made ‘devastating’ southern African floods more intense
- Climate change could lead to 500,000 ‘additional’ malaria deaths in Africa by 2050
- Expensive gas still biggest driver of high UK electricity bills, says UKERC
- Analysis: EVs just outsold petrol cars in EU for first time ever
- Q&A: What UK’s ‘warm homes plan’ means for climate change and energy bills
- Explainer: Why gas plays a minimal role in China’s climate strategy
- Guest post: 10 key climate science ‘insights’ from 2025
- Adopting low-cost ‘healthy’ diets could cut food emissions by one-third
- Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time
- Brazil’s biodiversity pledge: Six key takeaways for nature and climate change
- Experts: What to expect from China on energy and climate action in 2026
- Prof Ben Santer: Trump administration is ‘embracing ignorance’ on climate science
- Q&A: What UK’s record auction for offshore wind means for bills and clean power by 2030
- State of the climate: 2025 in top-three hottest years on record as ocean heat surges
- Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2025
- Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records
- Q&A: What Trump’s US exit from UNFCCC and IPCC could mean for climate action
- Analysis: World’s biggest historic polluter – the US – is pulling out of UN climate treaty
- Analysis: UK renewables enjoy record year in 2025 – but gas power still rises
December 2025
- Guest post: How to steer EVs towards the road of ‘mass adoption’
- Hydrogen emissions are ‘supercharging’ the warming impact of methane
- IEA: Declining coal demand in China set to outweigh Trump’s pro-coal policies
- Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2025
- Guest post: Why cities need more than just air conditioning for extreme heat
- ‘Cali Fund’ aiming to raise billions for nature receives first donation – of just $1,000
- Q&A: Five key climate questions for China’s next ‘five-year plan’
- Net-zero scenario is ‘cheapest option’ for UK, says energy system operator
- Analysis: What are the causes of recent record-high global temperatures?
- Interview: How ‘mid-level bureaucrats’ are helping to shape Chinese climate policy
- Analysis: Why COP30’s ‘tripling adaptation finance’ target is less ambitious than it seems
- Asia-Pacific faces ‘$500bn-a-year’ hit from rising seas if current policies continue
- Guest post: Why carbon emissions from fires are significantly higher than thought
November 2025
- Revealed: Leak casts doubt on COP30’s ‘informal list’ of fossil-fuel roadmap opponents
- UK budget 2025: Key climate and energy announcements
- COP30: Key outcomes for food, forests, land and nature at the UN climate talks in Belém
- Webinar: Carbon Brief’s third ‘ask us anything’ at COP30
- COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém
- Webinar: Carbon Brief’s second ‘ask us anything’ at COP30
- Analysis: Seven charts showing how the $100bn climate-finance goal was met
- Met Office: Ten years of naming UK storms to warn the public
- Analysis: Fossil-fuel CO2 emissions to set new record in 2025, as land sink ‘recovers’
- IEA: Fossil-fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless ‘stated policies’ are abandoned
- Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP30?
- Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months
- Webinar: Carbon Brief’s first ‘ask us anything’ at COP30
- Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at the COP30 climate summit
- Ongoing failure to agree AR7 timeline is ‘unprecedented’ in IPCC history
- COP30: What does the ‘Baku to Belém roadmap’ mean for climate finance?
- COP30: Could Brazil’s ‘Tropical Forest Forever’ fund help tackle climate change?
- Interactive: Who wants what at the COP30 climate change summit
- UNEP: New country climate plans ‘barely move needle’ on expected warming
- Q&A: COP30 could – finally – agree how to track the ‘global goal on adaptation’