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UK misses deadline to submit nature pledge ahead of UN COP16 biodiversity summit
The UK will miss the UN’s deadline to publish a new national plan for how it will address nature loss ahead of the COP16 biodiversity summit in Colombia this month, Carbon Brief understands. At COP15...
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Guest post: How solar geoengineering could disrupt wind and solar power
Solar geoengineering has been suggested as a temporary measure to buy time for the emissions cuts needed to stabilise global temperatures. These arguments have generally considered geoengineering as...
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China Briefing 3 October 2024: New coal guideline; Less oil consumption;...
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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The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Louise Heathwaite
Prof Louise Heathwaite CBE became the executive chair of the National Environment Research Council (NERC), the UK’s main agency for funding natural science research, in March 2024. She was the chair...
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Antarctic sea ice maximum in 2024 is ‘second lowest’ on record
Antarctic sea ice has reached its maximum extent for the year, clocking in at the second lowest in a record stretching back to 1979, according to provisional data from the US National Snow and Ice...
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DeBriefed 4 October 2024: UK turns the lights out on coal; Hurricane Helene;...
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week Farewell to coal 142 YEARS: The UK’s “142-year history of coal-fired...
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Guest post: How to track progress towards the ‘global goal on adaptation’?
At COP28 in Dubai last November, countries agreed specific global targets on adaptation for the first time. This marked a significant step forward for the “global goal on adaptation” (GGA) work...
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Guest post: Heat stress thresholds are not designed for vulnerable groups
As global temperatures rise, vast swathes of the global population are experiencing heat extremes that they have never faced before. In some parts of the world, exposure to extreme heat is breaching...
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Q&A：英国如何成为首个淘汰煤电的G7国家
英国最后一座燃煤发电厂——诺丁汉郡的索尔河畔拉特克利夫火电厂（Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station）——于10月关闭，标志着英国142年燃煤发电时代的终结。 英国逐步淘汰煤电在国际上意义重大。它是首个实现这一里程碑的主要经济体，也是首个G7成员国。1882年，英国在伦敦霍尔本高架桥（Holborn Viaduct）上建成了世界上第一座燃煤发电厂。 上微信关注《碳简报》...
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Interactive: Who wants what at the COP16 biodiversity summit
Two years after coming to a historic agreement to “halt and reverse” nature loss, countries are preparing to gather in Cali, Colombia for the latest round of UN biodiversity talks. The COP16...
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Guest post: How to minimise the risks from overshooting the 1.5C limit
Despite progress since the Paris Agreement, a peak in greenhouse gas emissions is only just within sight – and time is fast running out to stay below 1.5C of human-caused global warming since the...
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Cropped 9 October 2024: COP16 looms; ‘Parched’ Amazon river; UN biodiversity...
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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Explainer: How hotter oceans can fuel more intense Atlantic hurricanes
Record-breaking sea temperatures across the Gulf of Mexico have been a key ingredient behind some of the intense hurricanes devastating the region this year. Last month, Hurricane Helene made landfall...
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The Carbon Brief Interview: UN biodiversity chief Astrid Schomaker
Astrid Schomaker is the new executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Schomaker, who is German, was previously the director for green diplomacy and multilateralism with the...
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DeBriefed 11 October 2024: Hurricane Milton; BP abandons oil reduction...
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week Intensifying hurricanes STILL POWERFUL: Hurricane Milton made landfall in...
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DeBriefed 4 October 2024: UK turns the lights out on coal; Hurricane Helene;...
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week Farewell to coal 142 YEARS: The UK’s “142-year history of coal-fired...
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COP16: More than 85% of countries miss UN deadline to submit nature pledges
More than 85% of countries are set to miss the UN’s deadline to submit new nature pledges ahead of the COP16 biodiversity summit in Colombia, according to a joint investigation by Carbon Brief and the...
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Guest post: The growing threat of climate-sensitive infectious diseases
Ahead of the Paris Olympic Games this summer, the organising committee was concerned about two principal diseases: Covid, which Europe is fully familiar with, and dengue fever. Dengue, a...
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Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at the UN’s COP16 biodiversity summit
Delegates are descending on Cali, Colombia for the first set of biodiversity negotiations since the world’s nations agreed a landmark deal in 2022 to “halt and reverse” nature loss by the end of the...
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