100 articles from Carbon Brief between February 2025 and June 2025
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
- Explainer: What is China’s ‘Shenzhen model’ for low-carbon transition in cities?
May 2025
- Guest post: How marine life provides climate benefits worth billions of dollars
- Global wheat yields would be ‘10%’ higher without climate change
- Factcheck: Why expensive gas – not net-zero – is keeping UK electricity prices so high
- Svalbard: Can scientists salvage climate data from rapidly melting glaciers?
- Svalbard: How it feels to be a climate scientist in the fastest-warming place on Earth
- Revealed: UK development body still has $700m invested overseas in fossil-fuel assets
- ‘Significant’ risk of Amazon forest dieback if global warming overshoots 1.5C
- Factcheck: How the UK is – and is not – studying solar geoengineering
- Interview: What the people of China’s coal-rich Shanxi think about climate change
- Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time
- Rising emissions from farm equipment could ‘hinder’ China’s net-zero goals
- Guest post: More than 70% of adaptation plans for European cities are ‘inconsistent’
- Children born in 2020 will face ‘unprecedented exposure’ to climate extremes
- Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’
- 解读：中国如何应对数据中心能源增长的需求
- Analysis: Attacks on Ed Miliband in UK newspaper editorials have already exceeded 2024 levels
- Forests taking longer to recover from severe ‘megafires’ since 2010
- Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief
- Guest post: How climate science is – and is not – shaping adaptation planning in southern Africa
April 2025
- Q&A: What we do – and do not – know about the blackout in Spain and Portugal
- CCC: England’s approach to climate adaptation is ‘not working’
- State of the climate: 2025 close behind 2024 as the hottest start to a year
- Australia election 2025: Where parties stand on climate change, energy and nature
- Canada election 2025: What the manifestos say on nature, energy and climate
- Analysis: Conservative election win could add 800m tonnes to Canada’s emissions by 2035
- Guest post: Why hydrogen cars are being outsold by Ferraris
- Explainer: How China is managing the rising energy demand from data centres
- 嘉宾来稿：沙特从中国进口太阳能电池板规模意外激增
- Guest post: Exploring the risks of ‘cascading’ tipping points in a warming world
- Glossary: Carbon Brief’s guide to 25 ‘climate-friendly’ farming methods
- Q&A: Nations agree carbon-pricing system to steer shipping towards net-zero
- Q&A: What does the new German coalition government mean for climate and energy?
- Survey: ‘Very few’ Africans place responsibility for climate action on ‘rich nations’
- Guest post: How to apportion ‘net-zero carbon debt’ if global warming overshoots 1.5C
- Analysis: Nearly 60 countries have ‘dramatically’ cut plans to build coal plants since 2015
- Power-sector CO2 hits ‘all-time high’ in 2024 despite record growth for clean energy
- Global warming is ‘exposing’ new coastlines and islands as Arctic glaciers shrink
March 2025
- Guest post: Saudi Arabia’s surprisingly large imports of solar panels from China
- Arctic sea ice winter peak in 2025 is smallest in 47-year record
- Global soil moisture in ‘permanent’ decline due to climate change
- Glossary: Decoding how China talks about energy and climate change
- Experts: What do Trump’s tariffs mean for global climate action?
- Guest post: How human behaviour shapes effective climate policies
- Glacier melt threatens water supplies for two billion people, UN warns
- Q&A: How China’s ‘two new’ policy aims to help cut emissions
- ‘One-third’ of 2012 soya crop failure in the Americas was due to climate change
- Guest post: Why action on extreme heat in Indian cities is falling short
- Factcheck: Why Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is wrong about UK’s net-zero goal
- Guest post: China will need 10,000GW of wind and solar by 2060
- Explainer: What does China’s ‘two sessions’ mean for climate policy in 2025?
- Analysis: UK emissions fall 3.6% in 2024 as coal use drops to lowest since 1666
- Carbon Brief 采访清华大学王灿教授
- Factcheck: Climate change is not making extreme cold more common
- Analysis: Nearly a tenth of global climate finance threatened by Trump aid cuts
- Major banana exporters could face ‘60% drop’ in growing area due to warming
- IPCC report timeline still undecided after ‘most difficult’ meeting in China
- Half of global croplands could see a drop in suitable crops at 2C of warming
- Webinar: Key outcomes from the resumed UN COP16 biodiversity summit
February 2025
- COP16: Key outcomes agreed at the resumed UN biodiversity conference in Rome
- UK belatedly publishes nature pledge at COP16 in Rome as it seeks ‘leadership role’
- Revelado: Más de la mitad de las naciones no protegen el 30% de la tierra y el mar en sus planes de biodiversidad de la ONU
- 分析：2024年清洁能源对中国GDP的贡献将达到创纪录的10%
- CCC: Reducing emissions 87% by 2040 would help ‘cut household costs by £1,400’
- Revealed: More than half of nations fail to protect 30% of land and sea in UN nature plans
- IPCC’s special report on cities is its first with majority-women authorship team
- Infographic: How ‘digital sequence information’ can generate funds for biodiversity
- Explainer: How China’s renewable pricing reforms will affect its climate goals
- Guest post: How the global ‘water gap’ will grow under climate change
- Analysis: Clean energy contributed a record 10% of China’s GDP in 2024
- The Carbon Brief Profile: Germany
- Just 17% of world’s peatlands are protected, new study warns
- China’s construction of new coal-power plants ‘reached 10-year high’ in 2024
- 分析：2024年中国清洁能源创纪录增长遏制CO2上升
- Germany election 2025: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change
- Guest post: How atmospheric rivers are bringing rain to West Antarctica