100 articles from Carbon Brief between March 2023 and September 2023
September 2023
- Q&A: How scientists tackle the challenges of estimating wildfire CO2 emissions
- In-depth Q&A: What do Rishi Sunak’s U-turns mean for UK climate policy?
- Analysis: UK government’s climate U-turns put legally binding targets in jeopardy
- Guest post: Plans for new oil and gas power plants have grown by 13% in 2023
- Q&A: How are Libya’s ‘medicane’-fuelled floods linked to climate change?
- Guest post: Ice cores reveal Antarctica is warming twice as fast as global average
- Halving reliance on meat and dairy could cut land-use emissions ‘by 31%’
- Analysis: UK renewables still cheaper than gas, despite auction setback for offshore wind
- Factcheck: Scientists pour cold water on claims of ‘journal bias’ by author of wildfires study
- Q&A: Major global report reveals how climate, land use and trade drive ‘invasive species’
- Guest post: Behind the scenes at Senegal’s ‘just energy transition partnership’
August 2023
- EU’s use of fossil fuels for electricity falls 17% to ‘record low’ in first half of 2023
- Guest post: How climate change will hit snow levels across Europe’s ski resorts
- Vacancy: Digital Content Executive
- Q&A: How is climate change affecting China’s cropland?
- Risk of heat-related deaths has ‘increased rapidly’ over past 20 years
- Global warming could push tropical forest leaves past a ‘critical temperature’
- Eastern Canada wildfires: Climate change doubled likelihood of ‘extreme fire weather’
- Guest post: Gauging the success of climate change adaptation
- Q&A: What does the UK’s new biomass strategy mean for net-zero?
- Guest post: How the Inflation Reduction Act narrows the gap to US climate goals
- Q&A: How China is using nuclear power to reduce its carbon emissions
- Q&A: What the Amazon Summit means for deforestation and climate change
- Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions in Q2 2023 rebound to 2021’s record levels
- Guest post: How Ukraine could emerge from war as a climate leader
- Migration: Ties to ‘home’ are key for Himalayan communities that stay despite climate risks
- Revealed: Thousands of chickens in transit died from heat stress on day UK hit 40C
- Fires could lock vast parts of the Amazon into ‘treeless state’
July 2023
- Dwindling sea ice linked to decline of Arctic foxes in Canada’s Hudson Bay
- ‘Climate-altered’ Pacific could see conflict between tuna fishing and deep-sea mining
- Prioritising threatened species could help ‘guide’ expansion of EU protected areas
- State of the climate: 2023 now likely hottest year on record after extreme summer
- Autobahn speed limit would cut carbon and bring €1bn in benefits, study says
- Record-breaking 2023 heat events are ‘not rare anymore’ due to climate change
- Guest post: What would it take to phase out coal in Indonesia?
- Steel industry makes ‘pivotal’ shift towards lower-carbon production
- Media reaction: Extreme weather hits world’s seven continents in July 2023
- Guest post: How ‘locally led’ adaptation can help address climate change
- Q&A: The shipping industry climate goals backed – and blocked – by China
- ‘Malaria resurgence’ feared in Ethiopia amid El Niño and climate change
- In-depth Q&A: Will the new global shipping deal help deliver climate goals?
- Heat-related deaths ‘56% higher among women’ during record-breaking 2022 European summer
- Guest post: Coal-project financing outside of China hits 12-year low
- Sir David Attenborough: How polar ship will help scientists study climate change
- Guest post: Climate models underestimate food security risk from ‘compound’ extreme weather
- In-depth Q&A: How trees benefit nature, people and the climate
- Q&A: Does a new ‘global pact’ accelerate climate finance for developing countries?
- Analysis: How low-sulphur shipping rules are affecting global warming
- Introducing Carbon Brief’s contributing editors
June 2023
- CCC: Chance of UK meeting climate pledges has ‘worsened’ since last year
- ‘Striking’ new NASA videos show CO2 emissions rapidly building up in atmosphere
- Explicador: Cómo terminar la violencia de género ayudará a cumplir las metas de conservación
- Vacancy: Data scientist
- In-depth: How climate change affects health in Africa
- Explainer: How ending gender violence will help deliver conservation goals
- Guest post: How China’s rural solar policy could also boost heat pumps
- Analysis: UK would need less imported gas under a Labour government
- Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2023 UN climate conference
- Guest post: Nearly half of recent climate pledges plan to keep extracting fossil fuels
- Media reaction: Canada’s wildfires in 2023 and the role of climate change
- Guest post: What ‘credible’ climate pledges mean for future global warming
- Factcheck: Why banning new North Sea oil and gas is not a ‘Just Stop Oil plan’
- Guest post: New indicators will track climate change between IPCC reports
- Air-pollution monitors may hold ‘unnoticed’ wealth of biodiversity data
May 2023
- Climate change had no ‘significant’ impact on northern Italy floods in May 2023
- ‘Safe and just’ climate boundary has already been breached, says contested study
- Jobs created by net-zero transition will ‘offset’ fossil-fuel job losses in Republican US states
- The Carbon Brief Profile: Pakistan
- Guest post: Half of developing countries still struggle to report greenhouse gas emissions
- Q&A: How can countries stop subsidies harming biodiversity?
- Montreal Protocol has slowed loss of Arctic sea ice, say scientists
- Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions hit Q1 record high after 4% rise in early 2023
- Commodity Profile: Coffee
- Helping ‘climate-compatible trees’ spread their seeds may benefit Europe’s forests
- Western-Mediterranean heatwave ‘almost impossible’ without climate change
- Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief – OLD
April 2023
- State of the climate: Growing El Niño threatens more extreme heat in 2023
- Deadly drought in Horn of Africa ‘would not have happened’ without climate change
- ‘Explosive’ growth means one in three new cars will be electric by 2030, IEA says
- Unprecedented heat extremes ‘could occur in any region globally’
- Guest post: How land use drives CO2 emissions around the world
- Analysis: Half the global population saw all-time record temperatures over past decade
- Q&A: Did World Bank and IMF spring meetings help to scale up climate finance?
- Analysis: Shell admits 1.5C climate goal means immediate end to fossil fuel growth
- ‘Alarming’ expansion of cropland in protected areas threatens biodiversity goals
- Q&A: What does the EU’s new deforestation law mean for climate and biodiversity?
- Climate change compounding inequalities faced by women in agriculture, FAO says
- Record clean-power growth in 2023 to spark ‘new era’ of fossil fuel decline
- Guest post: How Boaty McBoatface is becoming instrumental for ocean science
- Loss and damage: How can culture and heritage loss be measured and addressed?
March 2023
- In-depth Q&A: The UK’s ‘green day’ avalanche of climate and energy announcements
- CCC: England has ‘lost a decade’ in fight to prepare for climate change impacts
- Guest post: The gaps in India’s ‘heat action plans’
- Carbon Brief’s definitive guide to the entire IPCC sixth assessment cycle
- Q&A: IPCC wraps up its most in-depth assessment of climate change
- The Carbon Brief Interview: ‘Loss-and-damage’ finance pioneer Robert Van Lierop
- Guest post: How the energy crisis is boosting heat pumps in Europe
- ‘Exceptional’ surge in methane emissions from wetlands worries scientists
- Q&A: How the EU wants to race to net-zero with ‘Green Deal Industrial Plan’
- Guest post: What 13,500 citations reveal about the IPCC’s climate science report