The Carbon Brief Profile: Canada
In the latest article in a series on how some of the world’s key emitters are responding to climate change, Carbon Brief considers Canada’s relationship with its extensive oil deposits and its...
View ArticleAnalysis: UK renewables generate more electricity than fossil fuels for first...
In the third quarter of 2019, the UK’s windfarms, solar panels, biomass and hydro plants generated more electricity than the combined output from power stations fired by coal, oil and gas, Carbon Brief...
View ArticleEbola epidemics will ‘increase with greenhouse gas concentrations’, study finds
The threat of Ebola outbreaks across Africa will increase as levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere rise, according to new research. With warming temperatures, bats and other animals that are...
View ArticleState of the climate: Low sea ice and near-record warmth define 2019 to date
This year is shaping up to be the second warmest on record for most surface temperature datasets, behind only the super-El Niño year of 2016. This is particularly noteworthy because 2019 has been...
View ArticleAnalysis: Renewables could match coal power within 5 years, IEA reveals
Renewable sources of electricity are set for rapid growth over the next five years, which could see them match the output of the world’s coal-fired power stations for the first time ever. This would...
View ArticleEurope’s carbon-rich peatlands show ‘widespread’ and ‘concerning’ drying trends
European peatlands could turn from carbon sinks to sources as a quarter have reached levels of dryness unsurpassed in a record stretching back 2,000 years, according to a new study. This trend of...
View Article客座文章:为何中国二氧化碳排放在2019年上半年增长了4%
Lauri Myllyvirta是一位关注中国空气质量和能源趋势的分析师。 对初步数据的分析显示,2019年上半年,中国来自化石能源和水泥生产的二氧化碳排放量预计增长了4%。 自2017年以来一度驱动总排放量反弹的电力行业的排放量趋于平稳,但激增的房地产和基础设施建设带动了钢铁和水泥排放量的快速增长。 对2019年上半年的初步数据的估算显示,相较于去年同期: 中国的煤炭需求增长了3%;...
View ArticleAnalysis: India’s CO2 emissions growth poised to slow sharply in 2019
Lauri Myllyvirta is an energy and air pollution analyst covering air pollution and fossil-fuel trends globally. Sunil Dahiya is an analyst with Greenpeace East Asia who tracks India’s progress towards...
View ArticleGuest post: Why climate scenarios need to better incorporate ‘adaptive capacity’
Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner is a research group leader at Humboldt University and head of climate science and impacts at Climate Analytics, and Marina Andrijevic is a research analyst at Climate...
View ArticleExisting Paris climate pledges commit sea level rise to ‘one metre by 2300’
Global greenhouse gas emissions up to 2030 could be enough to raise sea levels by more than one metre by 2300, a new study suggests. The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy...
View ArticleGuest post: Will plants help make the planet wetter or drier in a changing...
Dr Justin Mankin is a climate scientist, assistant professor in the department of geography at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and principal investigator of the Dartmouth Climate Modelling &...
View ArticleGuest post: Ten ways to use CO2 and how they compare
Dr Ella Adlen is research and programmes manager at the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford. Prof Cameron Hepburn is director of the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at the...
View Article‘Profound shifts’ underway in energy system, says IEA World Energy Outlook
The world’s CO2 emissions are set to continue rising for decades unless there is greater ambition on climate change, despite the “profound shifts” already underway in the global energy system. That is...
View ArticleInside MOSAiC: How a year-long Arctic expedition is helping climate science
@media screen and (max-width: 425px) { figure.wp-block-pullquote.alignright{ display:none; } } The world’s largest polar research expedition is currently underway in the Arctic. The year-long mission,...
View ArticleThe Carbon Brief Quiz 2019
Last Wednesday, Carbon Brief hosted its fifth annual quiz night at a bar in central London. Thirty-eight teams, featuring more than 300 people, took part in the climate and energy-themed evening, all...
View ArticleElection 2019: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change
The UK will once again head to the polls on 12 December, marking the third general election since 2015 as politicians struggle to set out a clear course for the nation’s departure from the EU. While...
View ArticleAnalysis: Global coal power set for record fall in 2019
Global electricity production from coal is on track to fall by around 3% in 2019, the largest drop on record. This would amount to a reduction of around 300 terawatt hours (TWh), more than the...
View ArticleUNEP: 1.5C climate target ‘slipping out of reach’
Unless the world begins to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions the 1.5C goal of the Paris Agreement “will slip out of reach,” according to the latest UN Environment Programme (UNEP) emissions gap...
View ArticleIn-depth Q&A: How ‘Article 6’ carbon markets could ‘make or break’ the Paris...
A little-known and highly technical section of the Paris Agreement could “make or break” the regime – and its aim of avoiding dangerous climate change. These “Article 6” rules, for carbon markets and...
View ArticleCMIP6: the next generation of climate models explained
Climate models are one of the primary means for scientists to understand how the climate has changed in the past and may change in the future. These models simulate the physics, chemistry and biology...
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