100 articles from Carbon Brief between July 2025 and November 2025
November 2025
- Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months
- Webinar: Carbon Brief’s first ‘ask us anything’ at COP30
- DeBriefed 7 November 2025: Leaders descend on Belém; UN warns of 1.5C breach; changing roles of climate scientists
- 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?
- Cropped 5 November 2025: Nature finance at COP30; Storms devastate crops; Brazilian deforestation decline
- 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’
October 2025
- DeBriefed 31 October 2025: Hurricane Melissa strikes Jamaica; Climate plans overshoot 1.5C; Protest crackdowns
- Q&A: The UK government’s ‘carbon budget delivery plan’ for 2035
- China Briefing 30 October 2025: 15th ‘five-year plan’ priorities; 2035 wind goal; ‘Vehicle-to-grid’ tech
- Q&A: How ‘vehicle-to-grid’ technology could boost China’s electricity system
- Q&A: The role of soil health in food security and tackling climate change
- UN report: Five charts which explain the ‘gap’ in finance for climate adaptation
- DeBriefed 24 October 2025: EU 2040 climate goal progress; Shipping industry carbon price delayed; Europe’s indigenous people take Finland to court
- UN report: Five charts showing how global deforestation is declining
- Rapid emissions cuts would avoid 64cm of ‘locked in’ sea level rise by 2300
- The Carbon Brief Interview: UK Met Office chief executive Penny Endersby
- Revealed: Only a third of national climate pledges support ‘transition away from fossil fuels’
- Cropped 22 October 2025: Global forest loss dips; Bird species in peril; Climate impact on Thai trees
- Analysis: Just 28% of countries have released nature pledges a year after UN deadline
- DeBriefed 17 October 2025: Earth’s first ‘tipping point’; Climate adviser interview; How warming affects children’s health
- China Briefing 16 October 2025: New export controls; IEA China projections; Provincial ‘Doc 136’ progress
- The Carbon Brief Interview: UK Climate Change Committee’s Emma Pinchbeck
- Global wildfires burned an area of land larger than India in 2024
- Analysis: Only half of Chinese provinces finalise key ‘Document 136’ renewable rules
- DeBriefed 10 October 2025: Renewables power past coal; Legacy of UK’s Climate Change Act; Fukushima’s solar future
- Guest post: How Caribbean states are shaping climate legislation
- IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries
- Cropped 8 October 2025: US government shutdown; EU loses green space; Migratory species extinction threat
- Q&A: How countries are using biofuels to meet their climate targets
- Overshoot: Exploring the implications of meeting 1.5C climate goal ‘from above’
- Experts: The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting the 1.5C global-warming limit
- Factcheck: What the Climate Change Act does – and does not – mean for the UK
- DeBriefed 3 October 2025: UK political gap on climate widens; Fossil-fuelled Typhoon Ragasa; ‘Overshoot’ unknowns
- Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions
- EAT-Lancet report: Three key takeaways on climate and diet change
- China Briefing 2 October 2025: China’s new pledge; electricity demand slows; steel overcapacity
- Antarctic sea ice winter peak in 2025 is third smallest on record
September 2025
- Webinar: Experts discuss what China’s new climate pledge means for the world
- Analysis: Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far
- DeBriefed 26 September 2025: China leads new climate pledges; Trump calls warming a ‘con job’; What comes next
- Analysis: Half of global emissions covered by 2035 climate pledges after UN summit in New York
- Q&A: What does China’s new Paris Agreement pledge mean for climate action?
- Revealed: Use of heat ‘emergencies’ for rough sleepers hits record in England and Wales
- Cropped 24 September 2025: High Seas Treaty milestone; ‘Erratic’ water cycle; Family food at COP30
- Guest post: Fungal infections are adapting to climate change – and threatening public health
- The Carbon Brief Interview: ClientEarth CEO Laura Clarke
- DeBriefed 19 September 2025: EU ducks UN climate target; Australia delivers; Tracing beef’s impact on the Amazon
- Growing trees for shade has ‘enormous’ potential for cutting cocoa emissions
- China Briefing 18 September 2025: MEE on the move; AI and energy; BRICS and climate
- Q&A: Will China and the BRICS fill the ‘leadership gap’ on climate change?
- Analysis: India’s power-sector CO2 falls for only second time in half a century
- IEA reiterates ‘no new oil and gas needed’ if global warming is limited to 1.5C
- Analysis: IPCC’s seventh assessment has record-high representation from global south
- AI: Five charts that put data-centre energy use – and emissions – into context
- Debriefed 12 September 2025: Africa calls for promised finance; Deadly heat linked to big oil; How to tackle net-zero backlash
- Analysis: UK foreign aid for nature hits £800m record due to cash for carbon credits
- Study links world’s top oil and gas firms to 200 ‘more intense’ heatwaves
- Cropped 10 September 2025: Flooded ‘food baskets’; Brazil eyes forest finance; Resilient rice
- Guest post: How adaptation has cut flood deaths and losses in Europe
- Guest post: How the role of carbon storage has been hugely overestimated
- DeBriefed 5 September 2025: Pakistan floods hit 1.8m people; UK ‘eco-populism’; How warming threatens a man-made lake
- Factcheck: North Sea gas is not ‘four times cleaner’ than LNG imports
- China Briefing 4 September 2025: Shanghai cooperation summit; ETS ‘absolute emissions cap’; China’s heatwave adaptation
- Q&A: How China is adapting to ‘more frequent and intense’ heat extremes
August 2025
- DeBriefed 29 August 2025: Record wildfires; Solar myths factchecked; Climate veteran on COP reform
- Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar power
- Cropped 27 August 2025: ‘Frustrating’ Amazon summit; Workplace heat hazards; Record European wildfires
- Guest post: China and India account for 87% of new coal-power capacity so far in 2025
- Warming due to tropical deforestation linked to 28,000 ‘excess’ deaths per year
- Guest post: Is climate change making UK droughts worse?
- DeBriefed 22 August 2025: Pakistan floods; China emissions drop; Climate-adaptive architecture
- Scientists are ‘most trusted’ source of climate information in global-south survey
- China Briefing 21 August 2025: China’s CO2 decline; ‘Two mountains’; China’s cement challenge
- Analysis: Record solar growth keeps China’s CO2 falling in first half of 2025
- Guest post: Why the recent slowdown in Arctic sea ice loss is only temporary
- DeBriefed 15 August 2025: Raging wildfires; Xi’s priorities; Factchecking the Trump climate report
- Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims
- Cropped 13 August 2025: Fossil-fuelled bird decline; ‘Deadly’ wildfires; Empty nature fund
- Guest post: Why China is still building new coal – and when it might stop
- Analysis: England’s most ethnically diverse areas are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat
- Fossil-fuelled heat has caused tropical birds to decline by ‘up to 38%’ since 1950s
- COP experts: How could the UN climate talks be reformed?
- DeBriefed 8 August 2025: Arctic heatwave; Climate anxiety deep-dive; France’s wildfire crisis
- Analysis: Record UK wildfires have burned an area twice the size of Glasgow in 2025
- China Briefing 7 August 2025: Deadly floods; ‘Industrial Cthulhu’; Higher solar forecast
- Explainer: What is ‘climate anxiety’?
- Guest post: What an ‘ambitious’ 2035 electricity target looks like for China
- Revealed: ‘Cali Fund’ for nature still empty as emails show industry hesitation
- DeBriefed 1 August 2025: Trump targets ‘endangerment finding’; Floods and heatwaves; ‘Thirst’ exhibition
July 2025
- IEA: Renewables will be world’s top power source ‘by 2026’
- Endangered angelshark faces ‘inhospitable’ breeding sites as ocean warms
- Analysis: Trump’s tariffs could cut just 0.3% from global CO2 emissions in 2025
- Cropped 30 July 2025: ‘Unprecedented’ ocean heatwaves; ‘Uneven’ hunger progress; Brazil’s ‘devastation bill’
- Climate change could make ‘droughts’ for wind power 15% longer, study says
- State of the climate: 2025 on track to be second or third warmest year on record