The Carbon Brief Interview: Saudi Arabia’s Ayman Shasly
Ayman Shasly is a senior negotiator for Saudi Arabia at both the UNFCCC and IPCC. In his role as an international policies consultant with the... Read More
Analysis: Fossil-fuel emissions in 2018 increasing at fastest rate for seven years
Hopes that global CO2 emissions might be nearing a peak have been dashed by preliminary data showing that output from fossil fuels and industry will... Read More
Budget 2018: Key climate and energy announcements
Philip Hammond, the chancellor, has delivered his last budget before the UK is set to leave the EU in March 2019. It was a lengthy speech full of... Read More
IEA: Clean energy transition makes reforms 'inescapable' for oil states
A changing energy system is posing “critical questions” for many of the world’s largest oil and gas producing countries, the International... Read More
The Carbon Brief Profile: South Africa
In the fourth article in a series on how key emitters are responding to climate change, Carbon Brief looks at South Africa’s heavy dependence on... Read More
Six charts show mixed progress for UK renewables
Onshore and offshore wind power rose by 34% last year in the UK compared to 2016, new government statistics show. ... Read More
IEA: Renewables investment in India topped fossil fuels for first time in 2017
Investment in renewable power in India topped fossil fuels for the first time in 2017, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). ... Read More
CCC: New UK renewables ‘could be cheaper than existing gas plants by 2030’
It could be cheaper for the UK to build new wind and solar farms in the 2020s than to keep running some existing gas plants, according to the... Read More
In-depth: BP’s global data for 2017 shows record highs for coal and renewables
Renewable energy grew by the largest amount ever last year, while coal-fired electricity also reached a record high, according to new global data from... Read More
The Carbon Brief Profile: Turkey
In the second article of a new series on how key emitters are responding to climate change, Carbon Brief looks at Turkey’s rising emissions and its... Read More
Explainer: How ‘Shared Socioeconomic Pathways’ explore future climate change
Over the past few years, an international team of climate scientists, economists and energy systems modellers have built a range of new “pathways”... Read More
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