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Old Delhi, India. Credit: Hackenberg-Photo-Cologne / Alamy Stock Photo.

Q&A: What does India’s new Paris Agreement pledge mean for climate action?

India has set a new target to reduce its “emissions intensity” – greenhouse gas emissions per unit of economic output – to 47% below 200... Read More

Other national policy | Mar 27. 2026.
Workers put switches and connectors on solar panels at a factory in Jaipur, India.

Analysis: India’s CO2 emissions in 2025 grew at slowest rate in two decades

India’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions grew by 0.5% in the second half of 2025 and by just 0.7% in the year as a whole, the slowest rate in more th... Read More

Emissions | Mar 26. 2026.
Aerial view of the Google AI data centre in Waltham Cross, UK. Credit: Amazing Aerial. Image ID: 3DJE64C.

Analysis: CO2 from UK data centres could be ‘hundreds of times’ higher than thought

Emissions from the new data centres set to drive the UK’s AI “revolution” could be hundreds of times higher than government estimates, accordin... Read More

UK emissions | Mar 23. 2026.
Procession of Queen Elizabeth I surrounded by her courtiers.

Analysis: UK emissions fall 2.4% in 2025 as coal hits 400-year low

The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 2.4% in 2025 to their lowest level in more than 150 years, according to new Carbon Brief analysis. The... Read More

UK emissions | Mar 5. 2026.
President Donald Trump is presented a trophy by Jim Grech, president and CEO of Peabody Energy and chair of the National Coal Council (NCC), during an event on coal power in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026, in Washington.

Analysis: Trump has overseen larger coal decline than any other US president

Donald Trump has overseen a larger fall in coal-fired power capacity than any other US president, according to Carbon Brief analysis. His administ... Read More

Coal | Feb 12. 2026.
Workers install solar photovoltaic panels on the roof of a factory in Haian, Jiangsu province on 11 April 2024.

Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the final quarter of 2025, likely securing a decline of 0.3% for the full year as a whole. ... Read More

China energy | Feb 12. 2026.
Satellite image of US at night.

Analysis: World’s biggest historic polluter – the US – is pulling out of UN climate treaty

The US, which has announced plans to withdraw from the global climate treaty – the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) –... Read More

US Policy | Jan 8. 2026.
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.
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