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UK plans to close last coal plant by 2025
Plans to close all coal-fired power stations by the end of 2025 were published today by the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The plans, which are open for...
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UK unveils research priorities for 1.5C climate change goal
The UK government has given its clearest sign yet of how it intends to support efforts to limit warming to 1.5C, the ambitious goal that emerged from last year’s Paris Agreement on climate change....
View ArticleClimate finance: the challenge of ‘shifting the trillions’
The money used to tackle climate change — “climate finance” — comes in many guises, which means that measuring it is a mammoth and complex task. Yet many argue that “mobilising” finance is the key to...
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Analysis: What global emissions in 2016 mean for climate change goals
This week, scientists from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the Global Carbon Project released their annual stocktake of global CO2 emissions; where they come from and where they end up. Also...
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Guest post: Power of images to shape climate change perceptions
Dr Adam Corner is the research director at Climate Outreach and an honorary research fellow at the school of psychology, Cardiff University. The COP21 international climate summit in Paris will always...
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Analysis: IEA cuts coal growth outlook in half as China peaks
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has dramatically scaled back its outlook for coal demand growth over the next 25 years, Carbon Brief analysis shows. The 2016 World Energy Outlook sees global coal...
View ArticleVideo: UNEP chief scientist on 1.5C climate goal and Donald Trump
Prof Jacqueline McGlade is the chief scientist of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the body that coordinates the UN’s environmental activities. Prior to joining UNEP, McGlade served as...
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COP22: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Marrakech
When negotiators from almost 200 countries arrived in Marrakech two weeks ago for the latest annual climate change conference, COP22, it was being touted as an opportunity to showcase progress and...
View ArticleGuest post: Five ways the Paris Agreement can address oversupply of fossil fuels
Michael Lazarus is a senior scientist and US Center director at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), based in Seattle. Harro van Asselt is a senior research fellow in the SEI Oxford Centre and a...
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Autumn statement 2016: Key climate and energy announcements
There were high hopes that today’s autumn statement, the Treasury’s second set of budgetary announcements for the year, would provide clarity on a number of ambiguous points in UK climate policy. It...
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Captain Scott’s expedition logs reveal Antarctic sea ice history
On the 14 December 1911, explorer Roald Amundsen and his team planted the Norwegian flag on the snow-covered South Pole. They had beaten the British team, led by Captain Robert Scott, by 33 days. This...
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Six tips for creating a good climate change graphic
Can you make a simple, eye-catching graphic about climate change without compromising on the science? This is a question climate scientists often grapple with. A group of scientists from Philadelphia...
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Guest post: Misleading media coverage of Antarctic sea ice paper
Dr Jonathan Day is a polar climate scientist at the University of Reading. His work focuses on understanding and predicting changes in sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic. Last week, my colleague Tom...
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EU energy package: What it means for coal, renewables and efficiency
The literature on EU energy regulations got longer by about a thousand pages yesterday, as the European Commission put forward its vision for achieving a “clean energy transition”. The vast collection...
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Factcheck: Newspaper claim about global temperature is ‘deeply misleading’
This is a guest post by Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist and energy systems analyst at Berkeley Earth, an independent temperature analysis project. It is all but certain now that 2016 will shatter...
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Factcheck: Littlejohn’s ‘inaccurate’ climate claim in Daily Mail about tsunamis
In today’s edition of the Daily Mail, the prominent commentator Richard Littlejohn makes an erroneous claim at the very end of his fullpage weekly column. He argues that persons unspecified – who he...
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Solar panels have been benefitting the climate ‘since 2011’
In 2011, solar power reached a tipping point. This was the year when the solar industry had saved more greenhouse gases than it emitted. This is the best estimate of a new paper published today in the...
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Record low volume highlights exceptional year for Arctic sea ice
With the latest sea ice data for November just in, 2016 continues to be a dramatic year in the Arctic. Following an unusually warm start to the year and record low ice in several months, a markedly...
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IEA: China’s new coal plants make ‘no economic sense’
China already has enough coal-fired power stations, says the International Energy Agency (IEA) and there is “no real economic sense in building more”. The many new coal plants it is building are...
View ArticleShrinking glaciers are ‘categorical evidence’ of climate change, study says
It is virtually certain that the retreat of many glaciers around the world has been caused by climate change, a new study suggests. Using records of glacier length that go back over 400 years, the...
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