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Guest post: How to better align climate goals with sustainable development
Nathan Borgford-Parnell is staff attorney at the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development. Johan C I Kuylenstierna is policy director of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). Steffen...
View ArticleVideo: Experts on the challenges of climate change adaptation
Scientists, policymakers and businesspeople convened in Rotterdam this week for the Adaptation Futures 2016 conference, where they discussed the impacts of climate change and how the planet can prepare...
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Guest Post: What does the Paris Agreement mean for the oceans?
Prof Jean-Pierre Gattuso is a research professor at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne University and the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations...
View ArticleThe Carbon Brief Interview: Debra Roberts
In October 2015, Dr Debra Roberts was elected as the new co-chair of Working Group II (WG2) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). WG2 is the group that examines the impacts of...
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Analysis: Only five years left before 1.5C carbon budget is blown
In its most recent synthesis report, published in early 2014, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) laid out estimates of how much CO2 we can emit and still keep global average...
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Study: Most fossil fuels unburnable without carbon capture
The majority of fossil fuel reserves are unburnable if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change, but carbon capture and storage (CCS) could “unlock” greater use, a new study concludes. The white...
View ArticleData Dashboard: Energy
Carbon Brief has compiled key indicators on the world’s emissions, energy and electricity. Use the tabs at the top to explore our interactive data dashboard. For example, it allows you to see how the...
View ArticleData Dashboard: Climate
Carbon Brief has compiled key indicators on our climate, atmosphere, oceans and cryosphere. Use the tabs at the top to navigate between our interactive charts. For example, you can see how CO2 levels,...
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Arctic could warm by 17C if all known fossil fuels are burned, study finds
Burning all the fossil fuels we know to exist on Earth could push global temperature an average of 8C above preindustrial levels, according to new research. The Arctic would bear the brunt of the...
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UK can decarbonise without harming nature, says RSPB
The UK can hit its climate targets without harming its wildlife, according to a new report from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). Setting out its vision for UK energy to 2050, the...
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Scientists: 2016 likely to be hottest year on record despite looming La Niña
The phenomenon known as El Niño, which combined with human-caused warming to supercharge global temperature in 2015/16 and brought chaotic weather worldwide, is officially on its way out. But stepping...
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Chatham House: Brexit could harm UK climate and energy policy
The UK is better staying in the EU from the perspective of energy and climate change, according to a new paper by international affairs thinktank, Chatham House. The question of whether the UK votes to...
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Ocean conveyor key to sluggish Antarctic warming, study says
While the Arctic is warming at twice the rate of the global average, on the other side of the planet, warming of the Southern Ocean around the Antarctic has been much slower. A new study finds the key...
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Analysis: Negative emissions tested at world’s first major BECCS facility
Decatur, Illinois, is a city built on corn. At the centre of its economy are two giant agribusinesses, Tate & Lyle and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), which together grind thousands of bushels a day...
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IEA: There are now more than one million electric cars on the world’s roads
In 2015, the number of electric cars on the road globally passed the one million threshold for the first time. The rapid growth of the industry means that it is now the only technology sector on track...
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Guest post: Attributing changes in regional rainfall to human activity
Dr Beena Balan Sarojini is a post doctoral researcher at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science and the Geography and Environmental Sciences department at the University of Reading. Her work...
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Factcheck: Which parts of the UK are windy enough for windfarms?
Onshore windfarms offer the cheapest form of new electricity generation in the UK, says the chief executive of industry group RenewableUK, as long as they are at windy locations. Those sites “almost...
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UK electricity is secure without coal, says Conservative thinktank
The UK can phase out coal while keeping the lights on, according to a new report commissioned by Conservative thinktank Bright Blue. The government has said it will close coal by 2025 and restrict its...
View ArticleAnalysis: Solar beats coal over a whole month in UK for first time
The UK’s solar panels generated more electricity than coal in May 2016, the first-ever calendar month to pass the milestone, Carbon Brief analysis shows. Solar generated an estimated 1,336 gigawatt...
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The albatross, El Niño and climate change: a tale of mixed fortunes
Originally a good luck omen for seafarers, but now more often a metaphor for the cursed, a new study hints at which could be more fitting for how albatrosses will fare under climate change. These...
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