100 articles from Carbon Brief between June 2025 and September 2025
September 2025
- 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
- UN report: Five charts explaining the rise of global food insecurity
- DeBriefed 25 July 2025: World court delivers climate ‘turning point’; Renewables ‘unstoppable’; Antarctica’s oldest ice examined
- ICJ: What the world court’s landmark opinion means for climate change
- China Briefing 24 July 2025: EU-China climate statement; World’s largest megadam; Clean-tech exports
- Third of ‘slum residents’ in global south are exposed to ‘disastrous’ flood risks
- Climate change is creating ‘new vulnerabilities’ for disease pandemics
- UN: Five reasons why switching to renewables is ‘smart economics’
- Analysis: China’s clean-energy exports in 2024 alone will cut overseas CO2 by 1%
- Mapped: 16 times extreme weather drove higher food prices since 2022
- DeBriefed 18 July 2025: India’s clean-energy milestone; Climate reaches UK parliament; Conserving trees and culture in Kenya
- The Carbon Brief Interview: UK climate envoy Rachel Kyte
- Cropped 16 July 2025: EU deforestation law pushback; Agri emissions; US lobster disease
- 嘉宾来稿：探究火山喷发如何影响气候预测
- DeBriefed 11 July 2025: Texas floods; Global warming ‘tripled’ Europe heat deaths; Ireland exits coal
- Media reaction: The 2025 Texas floods and the role of climate change
- China Briefing 10 July 2025: New sector targets; Overcapacity dressing-down; Adaptation scorecard
- Experts: Which climate tipping point is the most concerning?
- OBR: Net-zero is much cheaper than thought for UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly
- Tipping points: Window to avoid irreversible climate impacts is ‘rapidly closing’
- DeBriefed 4 July 2025: Trump ‘megabill’ guts clean energy; Europe’s record heat; Scientists discuss ‘most worrying’ tipping points
- Chart: Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ blows US emissions goal by 7bn tonnes
- Q&A: European Commission’s proposal to cut EU emissions 90% by 2040
- Cropped 2 July 2025: US public lands under attack; How India’s gig workers are suffering under climate change; Bonn to Belém
- Chart: UK misses tree-planting targets by forest the ‘size of Isle of Wight’
June 2025
- Fast-growing, global-south cities are ‘strikingly underrepresented’ in climate research
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Ofgem CEO Jonathan Brearley
- Analysis: UK climate aid to hit £11.6bn goal – but only due to accounting rule change
- DeBriefed 27 June 2025: Heat domes; Bonn comes to a close; Gender clash in climate talks
- Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2025 UN climate conference
- China Briefing 26 June 2025: First UK-China climate dialogue; China-climate conference summary; Oil peak ‘in 2027’
- CCC: UK climate advisers now ‘more optimistic’ net-zero goals can be met
- Guest post: Investigating how volcanic eruptions can affect climate projections
- Guest post: How solar panels and batteries can now run ‘close to 24/365’ in some cities
- DeBriefed 20 June 2025: Three years to ‘keep 1.5C alive’; Bonn talks turn ‘bitter’; Inside Mumbai’s monsoon ‘war room’
- Guest post: How the world’s rivers are releasing billions of tonnes of ‘ancient’ carbon
- Guest post: Why 2024’s global temperatures were unprecedented, but not surprising
- Cropped 18 June 2025: High Seas Treaty ratifications; Ocean warming woes; Brazilian deforestation ‘surges’
- Staple crops yields face ‘substantial losses’ in warming world – even with adaptation
- 中国农机排放量上升或“阻碍”净零目标实现
- Analysis: Reform-led councils threaten 6GW of solar and battery schemes across England
- DeBriefed 13 June 2025: Trump’s ‘biggest’ climate rollback; UK goes nuclear; How Carbon Brief visualises research
- Chart: The rise, fall and rise of UK nuclear power over eight decades
- Guest post: How climate change is fuelling record-breaking extreme weather
- China Briefing 12 June 2025: Critical mineral exports; Electricity price; Coal ‘capacity payment’
- Guest post: China’s ‘capacity payments’ boosted coal-plant revenue by up to 8%
- UK spending review 2025: Key climate and energy announcements
- Ocean current ‘collapse’ could trigger ‘profound cooling’ in northern Europe – even with global warming
- Guest post: Why the global area for regrowing trees is 71% smaller than thought
- Explainer: How human-caused aerosols are ‘masking’ global warming
- 解读：何为中国城市低碳转型的“深圳模式”？