100 articles from Carbon Brief between December 2025 and April 2026
April 2026
- Cropped 8 April 2026: Iran war drives up food prices | Two nature talks conclude | Return of UK’s tallest bird
- Analysis: How Chinese media is covering the Iran energy crisis
- Introducing Carbon Brief’s 2026 cohort of contributing editors
- DeBriefed 2 April 2026: Countries ‘revive’ energy-crisis measures | Record UK renewables | Plug-in solar savings
- Analysis: Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026
- China Briefing 2 April 2026: EV profits rise | Ming Yang rejected | Iran war
- Q&A: Why the standoff between nations over the next IPCC reports matters
- Analysis: How ‘plug-in solar’ can save UK homes £1,100 on energy bills
- IPCC: ‘Frustrating and disappointing’ meeting leaves AR7 timeline in deadlock
March 2026
- How wildfires and storms drove insurance losses in 2025 – in three charts
- DeBriefed 27 March 2026: North Sea myths debunked | India’s climate plan | IPCC and Indigenous knowledge
- ‘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
- Cropped 25 March 2026: Seabed mining talks stall | ‘Blueprint’ for land use | India feels Iran war impacts
- Analysis: CO2 from UK data centres could be ‘hundreds of times’ higher than thought
- DeBriefed 20 March 2026: Energy crisis deepens | Brazil’s new climate plan | New Zealand climate case
- The Carbon Brief Quiz 2026
- Q&A: What England’s new ‘land-use framework’ means for climate, nature and food
- China Briefing 19 March 2026: China joins nuclear pledge | Energy approach ‘vindicated’ | New ecological code
- Guest post: How changes to coal mining have affected China’s methane emissions
- Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world
- DeBriefed 13 March 2026: War and oil | Why gas drives electricity prices | Japan’s ‘vulnerability’ to Iran crisis
- 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
- Cropped 11 March 2026: Iran water worries | Seabed-mining treaty progress | Women farmers and climate change
- 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
- DeBriefed 6 March 2026: Iran energy crisis | China climate plan | Bristol’s ‘pioneering’ wind turbine
- 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
- China Briefing 5 March 2026: New five-year climate goals revealed at ‘two sessions’ meeting
- Analysis: Half of nations meet UN deadline for nature-loss reporting
February 2026
- DeBriefed 27 February 2026: Trump’s fossil-fuel talk | Modi-Lula rare-earth pact | Is there a UK ‘greenlash’?
- Analysis: Constituency of Reform’s climate-sceptic Richard Tice gets £55m flood funding
- Cropped 25 February 2026: Food inflation strikes | El Niño looms | Biodiversity talks stagnate
- Dangerous heat for Tour de France riders only a ‘question of time’
- DeBriefed 20 February 2026: EU’s ‘3C’ warning | Endangerment repeal’s impact on US emissions | ‘Tree invasion’ fuelled South America’s fires
- Q&A: How Trump is threatening climate science in Earth’s polar regions
- Limiting warming to 2C is ‘crucial’ to protect pristine Antarctic Peninsula
- China Briefing 19 February 2026: CO2 emissions ‘flat or falling’ | First tariff lifted | Ma Jun on carbon data
- 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?
- DeBriefed 13 February 2026: Trump repeals landmark ‘endangerment finding’ | China’s emissions flatlining | UK’s ‘relentless rain’
- 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
- Cropped 11 February 2026: Aftershocks of US withdrawals | Biodiversity and business risks | Deep-sea mining tensions
- 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
- DeBriefed 6 February 2026: US secret climate panel ‘unlawful’ | China’s clean energy boon | Can humans reverse nature loss?
- China Briefing 5 February 2026: Clean energy’s share of economy | Record renewables | Thawing relations with UK
- 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
- DeBriefed 30 January 2026: Fire and ice; US formally exits Paris; Climate image faux pas
- 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
- Cropped 28 January 2026: Ocean biodiversity boost; Nature and national security; Mangrove defence
- Expensive gas still biggest driver of high UK electricity bills, says UKERC
- Analysis: EVs just outsold petrol cars in EU for first time ever
- DeBriefed 23 January 2026: Trump’s Davos tirade; EU wind and solar milestone; High seas hope
- Q&A: What UK’s ‘warm homes plan’ means for climate change and energy bills
- China Briefing 22 January 2026: 2026 priorities; EV agreement; How China uses gas
- 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
- DeBriefed 16 January 2026: Three years of record heat; China and India coal milestone; Beijing’s 2026 climate outlook
- 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
- Cropped 14 January 2026: Wildfires scorch three continents; EU trade; Food and nature in 2026
- 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
- DeBriefed 9 January 2026: US to exit global climate treaty; Venezuelan oil ‘uncertainty’; ‘Hardest truth’ for Africa’s energy transition
- 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
- DeBriefed 19 December 2025: EU’s petrol car U-turn; Trump to axe ‘leading’ research lab; What climate scientists are reading
- Guest post: How to steer EVs towards the road of ‘mass adoption’