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Guest post: Intensive, lower-carbon animal farming could raise pandemic risks
Agriculture has a huge impact on the environment. Food production takes up more than one-third of Earth’s land, is responsible for one-third of humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions and is the largest...
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Heat pumps are the ‘central technology’ for low-carbon heating, concludes IEA
Heat pumps will provide one-fifth of the world’s heating needs by the end of the decade if nations follow through on their plans, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). In its first...
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Interactive: Who wants what at the COP15 biodiversity summit
Nearly 20,000 delegates from across the world will soon be arriving in Montreal for the second part of COP15, the much-delayed and much-anticipated UN biodiversity summit. The conference will see...
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Analysis: IEA’s renewables forecast grows 76% in two years after ‘largest...
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has raised its global forecast for renewables growth in what it calls its “largest ever upward revision” for the sector. The latest revision means the agency now...
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Interactive: Tracking progress at the COP15 biodiversity summit
Less than a month after the UN’s COP27 climate talks in Sharm el-Sheikh comes a different conference of the parties: that of the parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). At COP15...
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State of the climate: 2022 is currently tied for fourth warmest year on record
This year has been one of extremes, featuring record-shattering summer heatwaves and devastating floods. Western Europe and parts of Asia have had their warmest year on record so far (from January...
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Polar bears and climate change: What does the science say?
The image of a polar bear stranded on melting sea ice is often used as a symbol of the world’s rapidly changing climate. Yet every now and again, claims emerge in the media that polar bears’ plight...
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Guest post: Why the southern hemisphere is stormier than the northern
The southern hemisphere is a very stormy place. The winds at different degrees of latitude are described as the “roaring forties”, “furious fifties” and “screaming sixties”. Ocean wave heights can...
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Guest post: ‘Fair’ climate-finance flows should be at least $250bn per year
Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions must be roughly halved by 2030 to get the world on track for the Paris Agreement target of limiting warming to 1.5C. Achieving this will require enormous...
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Richest people in UK ‘use more energy flying’ than poorest do overall
The wealthiest people in the UK burn through more energy flying than the poorest use in every aspect of their lives, according to new research. The analysis of data from 2019 highlights “significant...
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Video: What needs to happen to make the COP15 Global Biodiversity Framework a...
The UN biodiversity summit, COP15, has been described as the “Paris moment” for nature. Delegates from almost every country in the world have been in frosty Montreal for the past two weeks hammering...
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COP15: Key outcomes agreed at the UN biodiversity conference in Montreal
Almost 200 countries have agreed to a new set of goals and targets to “halt and reverse” biodiversity loss by the end of the decade. The landmark deal was reached after two weeks of often tense talks...
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Argentina’s record-breaking 2022 heatwave made ‘60 times more likely’ by...
The record-breaking heatwave that hit northern Argentina and Paraguay in early December was made about 60 times more likely by human-caused climate change, according to a new rapid attribution study....
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View ArticleCropped 21 December 2022: COP15 special edition
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s Cropped. We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight. This is an online version of Carbon...
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Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2022
Last year brought no shortage of news. Frontpages around the world were dominated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the death of Queen Elizabeth II and a UK prime minister outlasted by a lettuce. But...
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Half of world’s glaciers to ‘disappear’ with 1.5C of global warming
Half of the world’s glaciers – frozen reservoirs supplying three-quarters of the global water supply – could “disappear” by the end of the century under 1.5C of warming, a study concludes. Even if the...
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Logged tropical forests are a ‘substantial’ carbon source for at least 10 years
Logged tropical forests are a net source of carbon emissions for at least one decade after being degraded, according to new research. Tropical forests that have previously been logged or otherwise...
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Analysis: How UK newspapers commented on energy and climate change in 2022
Energy has frequently been at the top of the news agenda over the past year, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent fossil-fuel prices – and, thus, the cost of living – soaring. In response, the...
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Met Office: A review of the UK’s climate in 2022
Last year was a dramatic one for the UK’s climate. The year of 2022 will be remembered for the passing of two significant milestones – a daily maximum temperature of more than 40C and a national...
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