The Carbon Brief
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Food systems responsible for ‘one third’ of human-caused emissions“Food systems” were responsible for 34% of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions in 2015, according to new research. The study,...
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UN: New national climate pledges will only cut emissions ‘by 2%’ over next decadeThe latest round of national climate pledges falls “far short of what is required” to achieve the targets set out in the Paris Agreement ,...
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Guest post: Learning from the contentious history of ‘carbon removal’Large-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR), also referred to as “ negative emissions ”, is increasingly seen as a key component of climate change...
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Tree planting can help tropical forests ‘recover 50% faster’ from loggingRestoring tropical forests through tree planting and selective plant removal can rapidly increase the speed at which they recover from logging, a...
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Coronavirus: Green recovery ‘could prevent 0.3C’ of warming by 2050The world could avoid 0.3C of global warming by the middle of the century if governments invest in a strong “ green recovery ” from coronavirus,...
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‘Extreme’ glacier loss events linked to human-caused climate change for first timeThe rapidly evolving scientific field of “ extreme event event attribution ” has detected the fingerprint of human-caused climate change on a...
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State of the climate: 2020 set to be first or second warmest year on recordWith the data now in for the first half of the year, Carbon Brief estimates that 2020 is most likely to be either the warmest or second warmest...
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In-depth: Hydrogen ‘required’ to meet UK net-zero goal, says National GridThe UK will need hydrogen to meet its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to the latest National Grid “future energy...
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Siberia’s 2020 heatwave made ‘600 times more likely’ by climate changeSiberia’s prolonged heat from January to June this year – which broke temperature records and drove polluting megafires – would have been “almost...
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Guest post: Global warming edges closer to Paris Agreement 1.5C limitThe latest forecast (pdf) from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) suggests that over the next five years there is a 24% chance of...
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Explainer: How the rise and fall of CO2 levels influenced the ice agesThe Earth’s climate has been quite stable over the past 11,000 years, playing an important role in the development of human civilisation....
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Guest post: How climate change misinformation spreads onlineThe rapid rise of social media over the past two decades has brought with it a surge in misinformation. Online debates on topics such as...
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Land purchases by private companies accelerate tropical deforestation, data showsThe buying up of tropical forest by private companies and foreign governments enhances deforestation in the majority of cases, new data confirms....
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In-depth: BP data reveals clean electricity matched coal for the first time in 2019Renewables were the largest source of new energy in 2019, but there were still record highs for oil, gas and CO2 emissions, according to new...
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IEA: ‘Green’ coronavirus recovery would keep global emissions below 2019 peakThe world has a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to pour investment into clean energy and create millions of new jobs, according to the...
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Guest post: Cost of extreme weather due to climate change is severely underestimatedOver the past decade, a compelling body of evidence has linked a range of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change . This...
