Guest post: Ten charts show how the world is progressing on clean energy
Dr Iain Staffell is a senior lecturer in sustainable energy at Imperial College London’s Centre for Environmental Policy. He leads the Electric... Read More
CCC: UK should ‘move away’ from large-scale biomass burning
The UK should not give support to any new large-scale biomass power plants unless they include carbon capture and storage (CCS), according to the... 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
IEA: Bioenergy to lead growth in renewables over next five years
“Modern” bioenergy will lead the global expansion of renewable energy up to 2023, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says in its latest... Read More
Guest post: India's emissions will double at most by 2030
Navroz K Dubash is a professor and Ankit Bhardwaj is a senior research associate at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR)’s Initiative on Climate,... 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
The Carbon Brief Interview: Chris Stark
Chris Stark has been the chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) since April 2018. The CCC is the UK government’s official climate... 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
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