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Analysis: Trump election win could add 4bn tonnes to US emissions by 2030
A victory for Donald Trump in November’s presidential election could lead to an additional 4bn tonnes of US emissions by 2030 compared with Joe Biden’s plans, Carbon Brief analysis reveals. This extra...
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UK spring budget 2024: Key climate and energy announcements
UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt failed to mention the term “climate change” at all when setting out the government’s spring budget – the first since it was confirmed that 2023 was Earth’s hottest year on...
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China Briefing 7 March: ‘Two sessions’ readout; BYD’s EV megaships; Power...
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing. China Briefing handpicks and explains the most important climate and energy stories from China over the past fortnight. Subscribe for free here. Key...
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DeBriefed 8 March 2024: Climate cost of a Trump victory calculated; ‘Weird’...
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Analysis: UK emissions in 2023 fell to lowest level since 1879
The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 5.7% in 2023 to their lowest level since 1879, according to new Carbon Brief analysis. The last time UK emissions were this low, Queen Victoria was on the...
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Loggers have ‘grabbed’ around 1m hectares of Indigenous land in DRC
Logging companies have “acquired” roughly 1m hectares of Indigenous peoples’ territory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2000, according to a new study. This is part of a wider trend in...
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Cropped 13 March 2024: Drought hits food supplies; ‘Mass bleaching’ of coral...
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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Q&A: What does China’s ‘two sessions’ mean for climate policy in 2024?
China’s annual lianghui (两会) – also known as the “two sessions” – ended on 11 March, drawing the curtain on a key political event that saw limited climate targets set for 2024. The “two sessions”...
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Shell abandons 2035 emissions target and weakens 2030 goal
Shell has abandoned a key climate target for 2035 and weakened another goal for 2030, according to its latest “energy transition strategy”. The oil major has “updated” its target to cut the total “net...
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DeBriefed 15 March 2024: Global methane surge; Europe faces ‘urgent’ climate...
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Guest post: Climate adaptation becomes less effective as the world warms
From flooding in New Zealand and wildfires in Canada through to drought in the Middle East and extreme heat across the northern hemisphere, last year provided a powerful demonstration of the impacts...
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‘Drill, baby, drill’: The surprising history of Donald Trump’s fossil-fuel...
As Donald Trump prepares for this year’s US presidential election, he continues to summarise his energy policies with one simple slogan: “Drill, baby, drill.” The Republican candidate has laid claim...
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Q&A: The impact of farmer protests on the EU’s upcoming parliamentary elections
The agriculture sector holds a lot of power within the European Union, receiving around one-third of the bloc’s total budget. But, amid rising production costs and lower incomes, farmers have been...
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Climate change made west Africa’s ‘dangerous humid heatwave’ 10 times more...
The “dangerous humid heat” that engulfed western Africa in mid-February was made 10 times more likely by human-caused climate change, a new rapid attribution study finds. Throughout February, western...
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China Briefing 21 March: New ‘trade-in’ policy; China ETS expands; ‘Two...
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Factcheck: 18 misleading myths about heat pumps
Heat pumps are an alternative to gas boilers and wood stoves for indoor heating. They now feature in most proposals for cutting greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by mid-century in order to meet the...
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DeBriefed 22 March 2024: ‘Red alert’ for Earth; Heat-pump myths factchecked;...
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Guest post: Mapping where tree-planting has the greatest climate benefit
Restoring tree cover is now firmly established as a strategy for removing carbon from the atmosphere to help tackle climate change. But there is an elephant in the room when it comes to estimating...
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Antarctic sea ice ‘behaving strangely’ as Arctic reaches ‘below-average’...
Antarctic sea ice is “behaving strangely” and might have entered a “new regime”, the director of the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) tells Carbon Brief. Following an all-time low maximum...
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Explainer: Why some countries are aiming for ‘net-negative’ emissions
Last month, Germany became the first major economy to announce that it intends to introduce a target to reach “net-negative” emissions later this century. While “net-zero” describes a state where a...
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