100 articles from Carbon Brief between April 2024 and September 2024
September 2024
- Reducing ‘overconsumption’ of meat and dairy could cut one-sixth of food emissions
- Analysis: UK’s record-breaking renewable auction ‘will cut consumer bills’
- Webinar: Carbon Brief joins scientists live at the UK’s Arctic Research Station
- Guest post: Just 15 countries account for 98% of new coal-power development
August 2024
- Q&A: The global ‘trade war’ over China’s booming EV industry
- Guest post: Using El Niño forecasts to give early warning of crop failures
- Explainer: Why is climate change causing ‘record-shattering’ extreme heat?
- 报告：中国国有电企在煤电“关键转折点”上仍面临挑战
- Five charts: How climate change is driving up food prices around the world
- Meeting 1.5C warming limit hinges on governments more than technology, study says
- Revealed: Three-quarters of prisons in England and Wales face ‘high risk’ of overheating
- Climate change made ‘monsoon downpour’ behind Kerala landslides 10% more intense
- 国际能源署：热泵可帮助中国减少75%为建筑供暖而产生的碳排放
- Climate change made the ‘supercharged’ 2024 Pantanal wildfires 40% more intense
- Analysis: China’s CO2 falls 1% in Q2 2024 in first quarterly drop since Covid-19
- IPCC meeting in Sofia fails to agree timeline for seventh assessment report
- ‘Critical turning point’ for coal poses risks for China’s state power firms, says report
- Analysis: UK could approve 13 new oil and gas projects despite North Sea pledge
- Heat pumps could help cut China’s building CO2 emissions by 75%, says IEA
- Rural ‘buffer ring’ can reduce urban heat island effect by more than 0.5C
- ‘Every 0.1C’ of overshoot above 1.5C increases risk of crossing tipping points
July 2024
- Q&A: What does deep-sea mining mean for climate change and biodiversity loss?
- Vacancy: Section Editor (Science)
- Net-zero transition will deliver at least ‘£164bn in benefits’ to UK
- Study offers new policy tool for considering ‘Indigenous climate justice’
- State of the climate: 2024 now very likely to be warmest year on record
- Guest post: The growing problem of how extreme heat damages mental health
- Q&A: What China’s push for ‘new quality productive forces’ means for climate action
- CCC: Labour must ‘make up lost ground’ to hit UK climate goals
- ‘Significant shift’ away from coal as most new steelmaking is now electric
- Q&A: Can debt-for-nature ‘swaps’ help tackle biodiversity loss and climate change?
- Guest post: Tracking G7 climate progress with data from 116,095 power plants
- Webinar: What are the key climate priorities for the new UK government?
- Analysis: China’s clean energy pushes coal to record-low 53% share of power in May 2024
- Experts: What is the Labour government’s top priority for meeting UK climate targets?
- Q&A: How Denmark plans to tax agriculture emissions to meet climate goals
- Q&A：中国如何适应日益频繁的洪灾
- Interactive: Labour government’s in-tray for climate change, energy and nature
- Tropical forest degradation due to ‘edge effects’ is 200% higher than thought
June 2024
- Q&A: How China is adapting to increasingly frequent flooding
- Q&A: What does the ‘landmark’ Horse Hill judgment mean for UK fossil fuels?
- Q&A: The state of the UK’s ‘food security’ in a fast-warming world
- Factcheck: How ‘scary-sounding numbers’ are being used to mislead the UK about net-zero
- Élections législatives Françaises 2024: Que disent les programmes sur l’énergie et le changement climatique
- Negative emissions: Scientists debate role of CO2 removal in tackling climate change
- Analysis: UK misses tree-planting targets by forest the ‘size of Birmingham’
- France election 2024: What the manifestos say on energy and climate
- Guest post: The critical role of ‘grounding zones’ in the retreat of Earth’s ice sheets
- Analysis: Wind and solar added more to global energy than any other source in 2023
- Experts: What is causing food prices to spike around the world?
- Analysis: Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015
- Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2024 UN climate conference
- Analysis: What record global heat means for breaching the 1.5C warming limit
- Afghanistan’s ‘deadly’ early spring rainfall made twice as likely by El Niño
- Agriculture ‘major driver’ of rise in nitrous oxide emissions over past 40 years
- Experts: What do the European elections mean for EU climate action?
- 分析：月度碳排放量下降或表明中国已在2023年碳达峰
- UK election 2024: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change
- Analysis: UK climate aid reaches record £1.8bn in 2023 after loosening rules
- Better refrigeration could avoid almost 2bn tonnes of CO2 per year from food loss
- Guest post: Tracking the unprecedented impact of humans on the climate
- Nine key takeaways about the ‘state of CO2 removal’ in 2024
- 嘉宾来稿：中国能源系统如何在2055年前实现碳中和
May 2024
- Analysis: European power-sector emissions fall by 20% since last EU election
- Interview: China’s position on ‘international climate finance’ ahead of COP29
- Rich countries met $100bn climate-finance goal by ‘relabelling existing aid’
- Guest post: The role of ‘blue carbon’ in addressing climate change
- 嘉宾来稿：满足中国增长的用电需求 光伏加储能“比新建煤电更实惠”
- Analysis: Monthly drop hints that China’s CO2 emissions may have peaked in 2023
- EU election 2024: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change
- Dual impact of extreme heat and Covid-19 had ‘deadly consequences’ for UK
- South Africa election 2024: What the manifestos say on energy and climate
- Q&A: The evolving debate about using genetically modified crops in a warming world
- Guest post: Heat pumps gained European market share in 2023 despite falling sales
- Experts: What are the biggest geopolitical risks to climate action in 2024?
- Discriminatory ‘redlining’ increases climate risk in disadvantaged US neighbourhoods
- Clean cooking: What new global pledge means for climate, nature and gender goals
- Interview: China’s renewables ‘pave the way to rapidly reduce coal reliance’
- Guest post: How China’s energy system can reach carbon neutrality before 2055
- Analysis: Benefits of UK ‘sustainable aviation fuel’ will be wiped out by rising demand
- English schools face ‘overheating’ for one-third of year under 2C warming
- EU spending up to €48bn on nature-harming activities each year, report says
- Q&A: What do India’s elections mean for coal communities and climate change?
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Octopus Energy’s Greg Jackson
- Major emitters ‘may retain or expand’ fossil fuels despite net-zero plans
- Guest post: Solar plus batteries ‘cheaper than new coal’ for meeting China’s rising demand
- Wind and solar are ‘fastest-growing electricity sources in history’
- CO2 removal ‘gap’ shows countries ‘lack progress’ for 1.5C warming limit
- Chart: How British electricity supplies are shifting decisively away from fossil fuels
- Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief
- COP16: Tracking country pledges on tackling biodiversity loss
- Elección de México 2024: qué dicen las plataformas electorales sobre energía y cambio climático
- Mexico election 2024: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change
- Guest post: Ice-age analysis suggests worst-case global warming is less likely
- Drought behind Panama Canal’s 2023 shipping disruption ‘unlikely’ without El Niño
April 2024
- Latin America approves plan for protecting environmental defenders
- Guest post: How shifting diets away from beef could cut Brazil’s emissions
- Alaska refuge drilling could threaten polar bears with ‘lethal’ oil spills
- Analysis: Fossil fuels fall to record-low 2.4% of British electricity
- State of the climate: 2024 off to a record-warm start