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Cropped 2 August: Piecemeal UN food summit; Agriculture impacted; Indigenous...
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Migration: Ties to ‘home’ are key for Himalayan communities that stay despite...
Having strong ties to home is the most frequently given reason why people continue to stay in Himalayan villages facing the impacts of climate change, according to a new study. The research focuses on...
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DeBriefed 4 August 2023: UK to ‘max out’ oil and gas; South America winter...
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Guest post: How Ukraine could emerge from war as a climate leader
The ongoing, devastating war with Russia has pushed Ukraine to the edge of survival as a nation-state, inflicting severe damage to its economy and population. As the war grinds on, damage grows day by...
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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions in Q2 2023 rebound to 2021’s record levels
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions grew 10% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2023, rising approximately 1% above the record levels seen in 2021. The new analysis for Carbon Brief, based on...
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China Briefing 10 August: Severe floods; G20 ‘obstruction’; Q&A on nuclear power
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing.Carbon Brief handpicks and explains the most important climate and energy stories from China over the past fortnight. Snapshot CATASTROPHIC FLOODING: More...
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Q&A: What the Amazon Summit means for deforestation and climate change
Leaders of the eight Amazon basin countries committed this week to act together to prevent the rainforest “from reaching the point of no return” – although they stopped short of agreeing upon a common...
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DeBriefed 11 August 2023: Amazon summit; Hawaii fires; Limits of UK rooftop...
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Q&A: How China is using nuclear power to reduce its carbon emissions
China recently approved the construction of six more nuclear reactors, cementing its status as the world’s fastest-growing nuclear power producer. Despite only starting to develop the technology in...
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Guest post: How the Inflation Reduction Act narrows the gap to US climate goals
The US has an important role to play in limiting climate change as the world’s second-largest emitter and the country with the greatest historical responsibility for current warming. After re-entering...
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Cropped 16 August 2023: Amazon Summit; Hawaii’s wildfire aftermath; Indonesia...
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Q&A: What does the UK’s new biomass strategy mean for net-zero?
Last week, the UK government released its long-awaited biomass strategy, which lays out the steps it intends to take to develop a sustainable, well-regulated biomass sector. The strategy was...
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DeBriefed 18 August 2023: Landmark US youth climate case; Himalayan...
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Guest post: Gauging the success of climate change adaptation
As the impacts of climate change materialise around the world, the importance of good adaptation becomes all the more pressing. Adaptation broadly refers to actions and policies that effectively...
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Eastern Canada wildfires: Climate change doubled likelihood of ‘extreme fire...
The unusually hot and dry weather that drove record-breaking wildfires in eastern Canada was made at least two times more likely by human-caused climate change, according to a new rapid attribution...
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Global warming could push tropical forest leaves past a ‘critical temperature’
Temperatures high enough to cause “irreversible damage” to a plant’s ability to photosynthesise are already impacting a small portion of tropical forest leaves, new research finds. The study,...
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Risk of heat-related deaths has ‘increased rapidly’ over past 20 years
Spikes in temperature-related deaths during extreme summer heatwaves “will eventually become commonplace” if societies do not adapt to the dangerous impacts of extreme heat, new research finds. The...
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Q&A: How is climate change affecting China’s cropland?
Chinese agriculture has not had an easy year. Official data shows that at least 4m hectares (40,000km2) of arable land have been affected by a sustained spate of extreme heat, typhoons and flooding –...
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China Briefing 24 August: ‘Anti-spy’ measures for energy; Green electricity...
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing.Carbon Brief handpicks and explains the most important climate and energy stories from China over the past fortnight. Snapshot ‘GREEN CERTIFICATE’: China...
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