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Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP24?
On Sunday, the 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24) got underway in Katowice in Poland, bringing thousands of negotiators together for two weeks of intensive climate talks. COP24 is widely considered...
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Analysis: Fossil-fuel emissions in 2018 increasing at fastest rate for seven...
Hopes that global CO2 emissions might be nearing a peak have been dashed by preliminary data showing that output from fossil fuels and industry will grow by around 2.7% in 2018, the largest increase in...
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Met Office: Climate change made 2018 UK summer heatwave ‘30 times more likely’
This year’s summer heatwave, which saw temperature records broken across the UK, was made up to 30 times more likely by climate change, a new assessment says. A preliminary study by scientists at the...
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Interactive: How climate finance ‘flows’ around the world
Climate finance is one of the bedrocks of negotiations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), including the “COP24” talks taking place this month in Katowice, Poland....
View ArticleCOP24 video: How can the Paris Agreement stay on track in a world with...
Carbon Brief has been talking to a range of people attending COP24, the latest annual round of international climate negotiations being held this year in Katowice, Poland. The technical side of the...
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Guest post: Ten charts show how the world is progressing on clean energy
Dr Iain Staffell is a senior lecturer in sustainable energy at Imperial College London’s Centre for Environmental Policy. He leads the Electric Insights project reporting interactive real-time and...
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The Carbon Brief Interview: Saudi Arabia’s Ayman Shasly
Ayman Shasly is a senior negotiator for Saudi Arabia at both the UNFCCC and IPCC. In his role as an international policies consultant with the ministry of petroleum and mineral resources in Saudi...
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Guest post: Is ‘glacier carbon’ good or bad for the climate?
Dr Arwyn Edwards is a senior lecturer in biology from the University of Aberystwyth and Dr Joe Cook is a postdoctoral researcher in glaciology from the University of Sheffield. Our warming planet is...
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COP24: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Katowice
This year’s COP24 annual UN climate conference concluded late on Saturday evening in Katowice, Poland, after two weeks of tension-filled talks. Nearly 23,000 delegates descended on the coal-tinged city...
View ArticleCOP24 video: Three need-to-knows from the UN climate talks in Katowice
The latest round of international climate negotiations concluded late on Saturday evening in Katowice, Poland. COP24 gathered diplomats from around the world to, among other things, agree on the...
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IEA: China and India to fuel further rise in global coal demand in 2018
Global coal demand is expected to grow again in 2018, driven by “strong” fuel burning in China and India, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says. The IEA’s Coal 2018 report finds that global coal...
View ArticleThe Carbon Brief Interview: Teresa Ribera
Teresa Ribera has been Spain’s minister for the ecological transition since June 2018. Before then, she had been the director of IDDRI (Institute for Sustainable Development and International...
View ArticleAnalysis: UK electricity generation in 2018 falls to lowest level since 1994
The amount of electricity generated in the UK last year fell to its lowest level in a quarter century, Carbon Brief analysis shows. At the same time, output from renewable sources rose to another...
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Guest post: A Met Office review of the UK’s weather in 2018
Dr Mark McCarthy is science manager of the Met Office National Climate Information Centre, which provides monitoring and analysis of UK climate variability and change. 2018 came to a close with a...
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Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2018
In a year dominated by events such as Brexit, royal weddings, the Salisbury poisonings, US Supreme Court nominations and the World Cup, there was still space in the news media in 2018 for reporting on...
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Guest post: Observations and models agree that the oceans are warming faster
Dr Lijing Cheng is an associate professor at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics in China; Prof John Abraham is a professor in the School of Engineering at the University of St. Thomas; Zeke...
View ArticleVacancy: Journalist at Carbon Brief
This is an exciting opportunity to become a journalist at Carbon Brief, helping us to analyse and report climate change and society’s response to it. Do you have expertise in climate and energy policy?...
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State of the climate: How the world warmed in 2018
The climate data for 2018 is now mostly in, though the ongoing shutdown of the US government has caused some datasets to be delayed. In this article, Carbon Brief explains why last year proved to be so...
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Guest post: Climate change brings threat of ‘bluetongue’ virus to UK farms
Dr Anne Jones is a former postdoctoral researcher at the University of Liverpool, now at IBM Research; Dr Cyril Caminade is a tenure track fellow at the University of Liverpool; Prof Andy Morse is...
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Climate change’s impact on groundwater could leave ‘environmental timebomb’
Over the next 100 years, the full impact that climate change is having on groundwater resources will become apparent in half of the world’s aquifers, a study concludes. The findings come from the first...
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