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Analysis: Why children must emit eight times less CO2 than their grandparents
Global emissions of CO2 need to decline precipitously over the next few decades, if the world is to meet the Paris Agreement goals of limiting global warming to “well below 2C” and, ideally, below...
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Eating more offal could help cut meat emissions by ‘14%’
Choosing more meat by-products, such as liver, sweetbreads and tripe, could help to reduce livestock emissions by as much as 14%, according to a new analysis. The results come from a study looking at...
View ArticleGuest post: The UK’s carbon footprint is at its lowest level for 20 years
Dr Anne Owen is senior research fellow at the University of Leeds’ Sustainability Research Institute. Prof John Barrett is the institute’s chair in energy and climate policy. Recent Carbon Brief...
View ArticleAnalysis: Half of UK’s electricity to be renewable by 2025
Close to half of the UK’s electricity will come from renewable sources by 2025, according to Carbon Brief analysis of new government projections. This marks a significant increase on earlier...
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State of the climate: Heat across Earth’s surface and oceans mark early 2019
Global surface temperatures in 2019 are on track to be either the second or third warmest since records began in the mid-1800s, behind only 2016 and possibly 2017. On top of the long-term warming...
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Guest post: How will climate change’s warming pattern look in the future?
Dr Andrew King is lecturer in climate science at the School of Earth Sciences and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes at the University of Melbourne. The world has not warmed evenly as the...
View ArticleThe Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Joanna Haigh
Prof Joanna Haigh is a professor of atmospheric physics and co-director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London. Her research into solar influences...
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Australian election 2019: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change
Following its hottest summer on record, Australia will head to the polls on 18 May with climate set to be high on the agenda for many voters. To understand the issues at stake, Carbon Brief has...
View ArticleVacancy: Two-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief is offering an exciting opportunity for a student, or recent graduate, to work at our central London office for two weeks this summer. This journalism internship will be paid the London...
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Climate change could ‘raise stress levels’ of endangered mountain gorillas
Global warming could cause stress to endangered Virunga mountain gorillas, potentially raising the risk of health problems and early death, a new study suggests. Using fecal samples taken in the wild,...
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Climate change has influenced global drought risk for ‘more than a century’
The influence of human-caused climate change on global drought risk could extend back for more than a century, a study finds. By studying tree-ring records from across the world, researchers have, for...
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In-depth: The UK should reach ‘net-zero’ climate goal by 2050, says CCC
The UK should legislate for and reach a net-zero emissions goal by 2050, so as to end its contribution to global warming within 30 years. That is the verdict of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC),...
View ArticleGuest post: Why the UK’s carbon footprint is decreasing
Dr Anne Owen is senior research fellow at the University of Leeds’ Sustainability Research Institute. In a recent Carbon Brief article, my colleague Prof John Barrett and I revealed that the UK’s...
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Guest post: Polls reveal surge in concern in UK about climate change
Leo Barasi is the author of The Climate Majority: Apathy and Action in an Age of Nationalism and blogs at Noise of the crowd. Climate change has been unusually prominent in the UK media over recent...
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Factcheck: How electric vehicles help to tackle climate change
Electric vehicles (EVs) are an important part of meeting global goals on climate change. They feature prominently in mitigation pathways that limit warming to well-below 2C or 1.5C, which would be...
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IEA: Low-carbon spending must ‘more than double’ to meet climate goals
Investment in low-carbon energy sources, such as wind, solar and nuclear, must more than double by 2030 if the world is to meet its Paris Agreement climate goals, according to the International Energy...
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European forests could ‘live fast and die young’ in a warming climate
Climate change could cause trees to grow faster, accelerating the rate at which they absorb carbon from the atmosphere. But these trees may be likely to die sooner, a study finds. The research,...
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Climate change is driving plankton towards the poles, study says
Communities of zooplankton – microscopic drifting animals that underpin marine ecosystems – are migrating poleward in response to climate change, a study finds. By comparing ancient sediment cores to...
View ArticleGuest post: Why natural cycles only play small role in rate of global warming
Dr Karsten Haustein and Dr Friederike Otto are scientists at the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute; Zeke Hausfather is the US analyst for Carbon Brief; Peter Jacobs is a PhD student...
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Lobbying against key US climate regulation ‘cost society $60bn’, study finds
Political lobbying in the US that helped block the progress of proposed climate regulation a decade ago led to a social cost of $60bn, according to a new study. Environmental economists Dr Kyle Meng...
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