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German coal compromise leaves doubts over climate goal
After late night coalition talks, Angela Merkel's German government has abandoned a planned levy on the oldest and dirtiest coal plants. Instead, it will adopt an industry-backed proposal to pay a...
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*Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe** German coal compromise leaves doubts over climate goal After months of lobbying and argument, Germany has abandoned a coal...
View ArticleThe Carbon Brief Interview Jennifer Morgan
Jennifer Morgan is the global director of the climate programme at the World Resources Institute. WRI is a global research organization based in Washington DC, active in more than 50 countries and...
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*Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe** The Carbon Brief Interview: Jennifer Morgan We interview the global director of the climate programme at the World Resources...
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The most influential climate change papers of all time
Which of the many thousands of papers on climate change published each year in scientific journals are the most successful? Which ones have done the most to advance scientists' understanding, alter...
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Chance of a UK very cold winter falls to less than 1% by 2100
The odds of the UK having a winter as cold as the one in 2009-10 will drop to less than 1% by the end of the century as global temperature rise, researchers from the UK Met Office say. The new...
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*Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe** The most influential climate change papers of all time Carbon Brief surveys IPCC scientists to find out what they think is the...
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Reports show how UK and the world can achieve deep decarbonisation
In the UK, as well as across the world, emissions of greenhouse gases need to be urgently and radically reduced over the coming decades in order to limit the increase in global temperature. Two...
View ArticleThe Carbon Brief Interview Syukuro Manabe
Syukuro Manabe is the senior meteorologist on the program in atmospheric and oceanic sciences at Princeton University. After completing his doctorate at the University of Tokyo in 1958, he began...
View ArticleA Carbon Brief guide to the Our Common Future conference in Paris
In the biggest gathering of scientists ahead of COP21 in December, thousands of climatologists, social scientists, economists and policy experts have descended on the UNESCO headquarters in Paris...
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Prof John Mitchell How a 1967 study greatly influenced climate change science
Yesterday, Carbon Brief published the results of our survey of climate scientists asking them to name the most influential studies of all time. The clear winner was a paper published in 1967 written...
View ArticleDaily Briefing | Budget 2015: Osborne to review green energy subsidies
*Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe** Reports show how UK and the world can achieve 'deep decarbonisation' In the UK, as well as across the world, emissions of...
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Analysis most cited climate change papers
On Monday, we revealed the results of our survey of scientists in which we asked them to name the "most influential" climate change papers of all time. The most popular nomination was a seminal paper...
View ArticleSummer budget 2015: Key climate and energy announcements
A £910m blow to renewable energy firms and an end to a road tax incentive for lower-carbon cars were among the climate and energy announcements in today's first Conservative budget since 1996....
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How volcanic eruptions changed climate and human history
A guest post from Dr. Joseph McConnell, a research professor at the Desert Research Institute, which is part of the Nevada System of Higher Education in the US. Throughout human history, large...
View ArticleDaily Briefing | Budget 2015: Green energy hit as Chancellor slashes subsidies
*Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe** How volcanic eruptions changed climate and human history Dr Joseph McConnell explains his new findings on how volcanic...
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Analysis climate change papers most featured in the media
In this week's series on the top climate change papers, we've seen which ones scientists think are the most influential and which are the most cited by other researchers. But what neither of these...
View ArticleDaily Briefing Climate 'vice' constricts bumblebees' natural ranges
Analysis: The climate change papers most featured in the media The latest in Carbon Brief's series about influential climate papers, this time looking at what impact new papers have in the wider...
View ArticleScientists: 2015 is a critical year for "bold action" on climate change
The window for limiting climate change to 2C at a feasible economic cost is rapidly closing, but science is the basis for finding the right solutions. That's the conclusion of the Our Common Future...
View ArticleThe Carbon Brief Interview Chris Field
Chris Field is the founding director of the Carnegie Institution's department of global ecology and professor for interdisciplinary environmental studies at Stanford University. He is the co-chair of...
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