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Hosting a COP in the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest, has raised hopes that this year’s UN climate summit in Brazil will be free from...
An export infrastructure buildout will enable further growth in American oil production as momentum fades on a phase-out of fossil fuels, even as global temperatures continue...
Digital sequence information, or “DSI”, refers to the genetic information derived from biodiversity. Public and private databases – headquartered mainly in the global north – often...
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...
Europe’s top polluting companies have ploughed three-quarters of their $2.1 trillion profits since 2010 into shareholder payouts rather than clean energy investments, according to Friends of...
China’s solar and windfarms would no longer be guaranteed sales at a fixed price linked to coal benchmarks, under a new policy released by the central...
Japan missed a UN deadline by submitting its new 2035 emissions reduction target a week late, reportedly because the government had received so many public comments...
The UN’s climate change body is bringing back regular gatherings in the Global South in 2025 after the annual week-long events were cancelled last year due...
Freshwater, essential for ecosystems and human well-being, is becoming increasingly scarce. Population growth, urbanisation and socioeconomic development are all driving greater demand for the world’s finite...
In April 2021, global banks and smaller lenders banded together in the world’s biggest climate finance coalition convened by the UK as host of the COP26...
