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Worker at a chemical fibre plant, China.

Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that star... Read More

China energy | Nov 11. 2025.
Aerial view of wind turbine construction, India.

UNEP: New country climate plans ‘barely move needle’ on expected warming

The latest round of country climate plans ‘barely move the needle’ on future warming, the head of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has warned.... Read More

Emissions | Nov 4. 2025.
Coal plant and ash pond in India. Credit: Ishan Tankha | Breathless (2019)

Analysis: India’s power-sector CO2 falls for only second time in half a century

India’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from its power sector fell by 1% year-on-year in the first half of 2025 and by 0.2% over the past 12 months,... Read More

Emissions | Sep 18. 2025.
The largest single shared energy storage power station in China in Delingha City, Qinghai Province.

Analysis: Record solar growth keeps China’s CO2 falling in first half of 2025

Clean-energy growth helped China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fall by 1% year-on-year in the first half of 2025, extending a declining trend th... Read More

China Policy | Aug 21. 2025.
Workers install solar photovoltaic panels in Yinchuan, China.

Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time

For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid pow... Read More

China energy | May 15. 2025.
German coalition leaders brief the media after reaching an agreement between their parties on a new government.

Q&A: What does the new German coalition government mean for climate and energy?

Since the German election took place in February, which saw the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) win the most seats, parties have been n... Read More

EU policy | Apr 11. 2025.
Wood cut of the Great Fire of London in 1666.

Analysis: UK emissions fall 3.6% in 2024 as coal use drops to lowest since 1666

The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 3.6% in 2024 as coal use dropped to the lowest level since 1666, the year of the Great Fire of London, ac... Read More

UK policy | Mar 12. 2025.
Teesside Offshore wind farm at Redcar, north east England.

CCC: Reducing emissions 87% by 2040 would help ‘cut household costs by £1,400’

The UK should cut its emissions to 87% below 1990 levels by 2040 under its seventh five-yearly “carbon budget”, according to official advice from... Read More

UK policy | Feb 26. 2025.
Planes queuing for takeoff at Heathrow airport in Britain.

Analysis: UK would need forest ‘twice size of London’ to offset new airport expansion

A forest twice the size of Greater London would need to be planted in the UK to cancel out the extra emissions from the expansion of Heathrow, Gatwic... Read More

Emissions | Jan 27. 2025.
Solar panels in Bavaria, Germany.

EU’s solar and wind growth pushes fossil-fuel power to lowest level in 40 years

Over the past decade, coal power use in the European Union (EU) has fallen by 61%, according to Carbon Brief analysis of new figures from energy anal... Read More

EU policy | Jan 22. 2025.
Aerial view of power plant outside Page, Arizona.

US emissions ‘unchanged’ in 2024 despite coal power at lowest level since 1967

Despite coal-power output in the US falling to its lowest level in nearly 60 years, the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by just 0.2% in 2024... Read More

Emissions | Jan 9. 2025.
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