100 articles from Carbon Brief between November 2024 and May 2025
May 2025
- 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
- Analysis: 95% of countries miss UN deadline to submit 2035 climate pledges
- Media response to 2022 IPCC report suggests shift to ‘solutions-based reporting’
- Mapped: How ‘natural’ world heritage sites are threatened by climate extremes
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Wang Can
- Guest post: How climate change is causing ‘ecological grief’ for farmers in Ghana
January 2025
- ‘Catastrophic’ 2023 lake outburst in India driven by glacial melt and permafrost thaw
- Met Office: A review of the UK’s climate in 2024
- Analysis: UK would need forest ‘twice size of London’ to offset new airport expansion
- Analysis: Record surge of clean energy in 2024 halts China’s CO2 rise
- Q&A: How China became the world’s leading market for energy storage
- EU’s solar and wind growth pushes fossil-fuel power to lowest level in 40 years
- Guest post: How ‘super pollutants’ harm human health and worsen climate change
- 专家：中国2025年能源与气候行动将有哪些期待？
- Met Office: Atmospheric CO2 rise now exceeding IPCC 1.5C pathways
- ‘Multi-year’ droughts have become more frequent, drier and hotter over past 40 years
- Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2024
- Vacancy: Data analyst
- Media reaction: The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires and the role of climate change
- State of the climate: 2024 sets a new record as the first year above 1.5C
- Analysis: UK newspaper editorials attacked Ed Miliband relentlessly throughout 2024
- Experts: What to expect from China on energy and climate action in 2025?
- US emissions ‘unchanged’ in 2024 despite coal power at lowest level since 1967
- Interactive: How the world is already adapting to climate change
- Analysis: UK’s electricity was cleanest ever in 2024
December 2024
- Q&A: 中美贸易战对能源转型意味着什么？
- Analysis: Only five proposals for coal plants remain across OECD’s 38 countries
- IPBES nexus report: Five takeaways for biodiversity, food, water, health and climate
- Analysis: How the UK plans to reach clean power by 2030
- Record-breaking Philippines typhoon season was ‘supercharged’ by climate change
- Revealed: English farmers received record-high flood relief after last winter’s extreme rain
- Explainer: How China’s renewables rollout boosts its ‘war on sand’
- Q&A: What could a US-China trade war mean for the energy transition?
- Interview: Prof Philippe Sands on UN court’s landmark climate-change hearing
- Guest post: The conflicting practices in using land to tackle climate change
- Analysis: Why the $300bn climate-finance goal is even less ambitious than it seems
November 2024
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Lyu Wenbin and Prof Bai Quan
- Ireland election 2024: What the manifestos say on climate change and energy
- COP29: Key outcomes for food, forests, land and nature at the UN climate talks in Baku
- Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2024
- Webinar: Carbon Brief journalists discuss COP29’s key outcomes