100 articles from Carbon Brief between June 2025 and October 2025
October 2025
- 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
- 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’
- Analysis: Just 28% of countries have released nature pledges a year after UN deadline
- 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
- Guest post: How Caribbean states are shaping climate legislation
- IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries
- 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
- Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions
- EAT-Lancet report: Three key takeaways on climate and diet change
- 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
- 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
- Guest post: Fungal infections are adapting to climate change – and threatening public health
- The Carbon Brief Interview: ClientEarth CEO Laura Clarke
- Growing trees for shade has ‘enormous’ potential for cutting cocoa emissions
- 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
- 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
- Guest post: How adaptation has cut flood deaths and losses in Europe
- Guest post: How the role of carbon storage has been hugely overestimated
- Factcheck: North Sea gas is not ‘four times cleaner’ than LNG imports
- Q&A: How China is adapting to ‘more frequent and intense’ heat extremes
August 2025
- Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar power
- 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?
- Scientists are ‘most trusted’ source of climate information in global-south survey
- 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
- Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims
- 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?
- Analysis: Record UK wildfires have burned an area twice the size of Glasgow in 2025
- 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
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
- 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
- ICJ: What the world court’s landmark opinion means for climate change
- 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
- The Carbon Brief Interview: UK climate envoy Rachel Kyte
- 嘉宾来稿：探究火山喷发如何影响气候预测
- Media reaction: The 2025 Texas floods and the role of climate change
- 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’
- 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
- 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
- Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2025 UN climate conference
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Chart: The rise, fall and rise of UK nuclear power over eight decades
- Guest post: How climate change is fuelling record-breaking extreme weather
- 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”？
- Guest post: How ‘feedback loops’ and ‘non-linear thinking’ can inform climate policy
- Analysis: UK’s solar power surges 42% after sunniest spring on record
- World might have set itself an unachievable nature target, says former UK negotiator
- 分析：清洁能源首次助力中国碳排放下降