100 articles from Carbon Brief between September 2024 and February 2025
February 2025
- 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
- Five charts: Why a UN plastics treaty matters for climate change
- COP29: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Baku
- COP29: Five key takeaways from Brazil’s 2035 climate pledge
- Analysis: China’s emissions have now caused more global warming than EU
- Q&A: The evolving science of ‘extreme weather attribution’
- Webinar: Ask Carbon Brief anything about COP29
- Analysis: Global CO2 emissions will reach new high in 2024 despite slower growth
- COP29: Six key reasons why international climate finance is a ‘wild west’
- Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP29?
- COP16: Principales resultados acordados en la conferencia de la ONU sobre biodiversidad en Cali, Colombia
- Guest post: What 1.5C overshoot would mean for climate impacts and adaptation
- Webinar: Principales resultados de la COP16 para Latinoamérica
- Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at the COP29 climate summit
- State of the climate: 2024 will be first year above 1.5C of global warming
- Experts: What does a Trump presidency mean for climate action?
- The Carbon Brief Quiz 2024
- Webinar: Key outcomes from the UN’s COP16 biodiversity summit
- Interactive: Who wants what at the COP29 climate change summit
- 分析：尽管煤电反弹，但中国2024年三季度碳排放未增长
- COP29: What is the ‘new collective quantified goal’ on climate finance?
- COP16: Key outcomes agreed at the UN biodiversity conference in Cali, Colombia
- Experts: What to expect in China’s climate pledge for 2035
- Guest post: How COP29 host Azerbaijan could boost growth through climate action
October 2024
- UK autumn budget 2024: Key climate and energy announcements
- More than half a trillion hours of work lost in 2023 due to ‘heat exposure’
- Analysis: No growth for China’s emissions in Q3 2024 despite coal-power rebound
- CCC: UK’s next Paris pledge should commit to ‘81% emissions cut by 2035’
- UNEP: New climate pledges need ‘quantum leap’ in ambition to deliver Paris goals
- Q&A: Can ‘carbon border adjustment mechanisms’ help tackle climate change?
- Webinar: What to watch at the UN’s COP16 biodiversity summit
- Climate change almost wipes out decline in global area burned by wildfires
- Analysis: Solar surge will send coal power tumbling by 2030, IEA data reveals
- Developed countries failing to pay ‘fair share’ of nature finance ahead of COP16
- Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at the UN’s COP16 biodiversity summit
- Guest post: The growing threat of climate-sensitive infectious diseases
- COP16: More than 85% of countries miss UN deadline to submit nature pledges
- The Carbon Brief Interview: UN biodiversity chief Astrid Schomaker
- Explainer: How hotter oceans can fuel more intense Atlantic hurricanes
- Guest post: How to minimise the risks from overshooting the 1.5C limit
- Interactive: Who wants what at the COP16 biodiversity summit
- Q&A：英国如何成为首个淘汰煤电的G7国家
- Guest post: Heat stress thresholds are not designed for vulnerable groups
- Guest post: How to track progress towards the ‘global goal on adaptation’?
- Antarctic sea ice maximum in 2024 is ‘second lowest’ on record
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Louise Heathwaite
- Guest post: How solar geoengineering could disrupt wind and solar power
- UK misses deadline to submit nature pledge ahead of UN COP16 biodiversity summit
September 2024
- Q&A: How the UK became the first G7 country to phase out coal power
- Analysis: UK must spend £1.7bn more on nature by 2026 to meet climate-finance goal
- 深度报道：中国对非洲可再生能源的投资在沉寂两年之后反弹
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Adam McKay
- Explainer: China’s carbon market to cover steel, aluminium and cement in 2024
- Guest post: The forgotten role of logistics in achieving net-zero
- How a UK government-backed company has fuelled gas power in Africa
- US supply chains face biggest jump in ‘weather shocks’ due to climate change
- Q&A: What the Draghi report says about EU climate action and energy
- Q&A: Why methane levels are rising with no ‘hint of a decline’
- Q&A：中国蓬勃发展的电动汽车产业引起的“贸易战”争论
- In-depth: China’s finance for African renewables rebounds after two-year lull
- US election 2024: How Kamala Harris and Donald Trump differ starkly on energy and climate