100 articles from Carbon Brief between September 2023 and March 2024

March 2024

• Q&A: What does China’s ‘two sessions’ mean for climate policy in 2024?
• Loggers have ‘grabbed’ around 1m hectares of Indigenous land in DRC
• Analysis: UK emissions in 2023 fell to lowest level since 1879
• UK spring budget 2024: Key climate and energy announcements 
• Analysis: Trump election win could add 4bn tonnes to US emissions by 2030
• Guest post: The challenge of consensus decision-making in UN climate negotiations

February 2024

• Q&A: What does the EU ‘nature restoration’ law mean for climate and biodiversity?
• UK emissions could rise by 15% if government uses ‘surplus’ to weaken climate goal, CCC warns
• No ‘statistically significant’ link between climate change and Chile’s wildfires
• Analysis: Record drop in China’s CO2 emissions needed to meet 2025 target
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Pan Jiahua
• Interview: Why global support for climate action is ‘systematically underestimated’
• Analysis: How UK winters are getting warmer and wetter
• Mystery over ‘unexpectedly large’ emissions from Africa’s tropical ecosystems
• ‘Unprecedented’ stress in up to half of the Amazon may lead to tipping point by 2050
• The Carbon Brief Profile: Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Vacancy: Team Coordinator
• Ny-Ålesund: How UK scientists are studying climate change in the Arctic
• Q&A: European Commission calls for 90% cut in EU emissions by 2040
• Analysis: How do the EU farmer protests relate to climate change? 
• Scientists challenge ‘flawed communication’ of study claiming 1.5C warming breach
• Guest post: Heavy use of CO2 removal would trigger high sustainability risks
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Zou Ji

January 2024

• Q&A: What progress has been made on protecting nature a year on from COP15?
• Q&A: What does Biden’s LNG ‘pause’ mean for global emissions?
• Guest post: Why 2023 was an exceptional year for Antarctic sea ice
• Analysis: Clean energy was top driver of China’s economic growth in 2023
• IPCC: Governments split on ‘accelerated’ climate reports for next UN global stocktake
• The Carbon Brief Interview: Chris Skidmore
• Wind and solar capacity in south-east Asia climbs 20% in just one year, report finds
• State of the Climate: 2023 smashes records for surface temperature and ocean heat
• Analysis: Surge in heat pumps and solar drives record for UK homes in 2023
• Analysis: World will add enough renewables in five years to power US and Canada
• Met Office: A review of the UK’s climate in 2023 
• Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2023
• Analysis: Record opposition to climate action by UK’s right-leaning newspapers in 2023
• Analysis: UK electricity from fossil fuels drops to lowest level since 1957

December 2023

• Guest post: Why ‘jet-streak’ winds will get faster as the climate warms
• Webinar: Carbon Brief journalists discuss COP28’s key outcomes 
• COP28: Key outcomes for food, forests, land and nature at the UN climate talks in Dubai
• COP28: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Dubai
• Guest post: What would an ambitious ‘global goal on adaptation’ look like at COP28?
• Guest post: Why some ‘developing’ countries are already among largest climate-finance contributors
• Interactive: The pathways to meeting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit
• Q&A: Climate tipping points have put Earth on ‘disastrous trajectory’, says new report
• Q&A: Why defining the ‘phaseout’ of ‘unabated’ fossil fuels is so important at COP28
• Analysis: Growth of Chinese fossil CO2 emissions drives new global record in 2023
• Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at COP28 climate summit
• Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP28?

November 2023

• The Carbon Brief Profile: China
• Q&A: How Great Britain’s ‘demand flexibility service’ is cutting costs and CO2 emissions
• Revealed: Colonial rule nearly doubles UK’s historical contribution to climate change
• Revealed: How colonial rule radically shifts historical responsibility for climate change
• Q&A: What does China’s new methane plan mean for its climate goals?
• Autumn statement 2023: Key climate and energy announcements
• Guest post: Why resolving how land emissions are counted is critical for tracking climate progress
• Q&A: Why deals at COP28 to ‘triple renewables’ and ‘double efficiency’ are crucial for 1.5C
• Interactive: Who wants what at the COP28 climate change summit
• UNEP: Humanity is still ‘breaking all the wrong records’ in fast-warming world
• Q&A: What is the ‘global stocktake’ and could it accelerate climate action?
• Q&A: Warming of 2C would trigger ‘catastrophic’ loss of world’s ice, new report says
• Lancet report: Heat stress wiped out equivalent of 4% of Africa’s GDP in 2022
• The Carbon Brief Quiz 2023
• Analysis: China’s emissions set to fall in 2024 after record growth in clean energy
• Climate change: Intensity of ongoing drought in Syria, Iraq and Iran ‘not rare anymore’
• Q&A: The fight over the ‘loss-and-damage fund’ for climate change
• Guest post: How 120 of the world’s major cities could cut transport CO2 by 22%
• Guest post: Three major gaps in climate-adaptation finance for developing countries
• Q&A: What the ‘underwhelming’ Three Basins Summit means for tropical forests

October 2023

• How to follow Carbon Brief’s WhatsApp channel
• Vacancy: Multimedia producer
• Analysis: Global CO2 emissions could peak as soon as 2023, IEA data reveals
• Guest post: Why all fossil fuels must decline rapidly to stay below 1.5C
• Analysis: Africa’s extreme weather has killed at least 15,000 people in 2023
• Guest post: Fixing the gaps in England’s ‘biodiversity net-gain’ policy
• Factcheck: 21 misleading myths about electric vehicles
• State of the climate: Global temperatures throughout mid-2023 shatter records
• Analysis: UK ‘adds’ £450m to its climate-finance spending by changing definition
• Lough Neagh: How climate change intensified toxic algae on the UK’s largest lake
• Rubber drives ‘at least twice’ as much deforestation as previously thought
• Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2023
• Analysis: ‘Greater than 99% chance’ 2023 will be hottest year on record
• Revealed: Tenth of UK’s climate-aid spending goes via private consultancies
• Analysis: How the UK has fallen 40% behind on its £11.6bn climate-finance pledge
• Analysis: How the UK has spent its foreign aid on climate change since 2011
• Kew report: Five key extinction risks facing the world’s plants and fungi
• Experts: How will the next decade of China’s ‘belt and road initiative’ impact climate action?
• World’s electricity supply close to ‘peak emissions’ due to growth of wind and solar
• Drying of Amazon could be early warning of ‘tipping point’ for the rainforest
• In-depth Q&A: What food waste means for climate change
• Guest post: How heat pumps became a Nordic success story

September 2023

• Webinar: How can carbon offsets be reformed?
• Analysis: How some of the world’s largest companies rely on carbon offsets to ‘reach net-zero’
• In-depth Q&A: What are ‘biodiversity offsets’?
• ‘Exceptional’ Antarctic melt drives months of record-low global sea ice cover
• Mapped: The impacts of carbon-offset projects around the world
• Infographic: How are carbon offsets supposed to work?
• Timeline: The 60-year history of carbon offsets
• Glossary: Carbon Brief’s guide to the terminology of carbon offsets
• In-depth Q&A: Can ‘carbon offsets’ help to tackle climate change?