100 articles from Carbon Brief between July 2025 and December 2025
December 2025
- 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’
October 2025
- Q&A: The UK government’s ‘carbon budget delivery plan’ for 2035
- 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’