Warming driven by deforestation caused an extra 28,000 heat-related deaths per year across Africa, South America and Asia over 2001-20, new research finds. The study, published...
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 that started in March...
Governments drew their battle lines this week over how COP30 should respond to an expected shortfall in ambition in countries’ national climate plans, raising the prospect...
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing. China Briefing handpicks and explains the most important climate and energy stories from China over the past fortnight. Subscribe for...
China has seen a series of temperature records broken this summer, as heatwaves have struck various regions across the country. Between mid-March and mid-July 2025, it...
Scientists are the most trusted source of information for climate change in some of the largest global-south countries, ranking above newspapers, friends and social media. This...
Given the constant flow of bad news around climate change – smashed heat records, shrinking polar ice, rampant wildfires, apocalyptic floods – you’d be forgiven for...
China and India accounted for 87% of the new coal-power capacity put into operation in the first half of 2025, whereas other regions continued to move...
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week Floods and fires PAKISTAN FLOODS: Torrential rain...
Ben Abraham is a senior consultant at the Talanoa Institute and a former senior climate finance adviser at the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and...