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Some 58% of countries have met a UN call to submit new pledges on addressing nature loss – two years after the original ...

Between 19 and 30 October, 196 parties will gather to hammer out the precise wording of the dozens of legal texts that make ...

Sent out every other Thursday, China Briefing is a round-up of all the need-to-know information about climate and energy in China from the past fortnight. Every day, our China team trawls the media – ...

Clean power added more to global energy supplies than any other source in 2025, according to the latest Energy Institute statistical review of world energy. Outside the Covid pandemic, it was also the ...

The amount of foreign aid the UK spends on climate action reached a record high of around £3bn last year, according to government figures obtained by Carbon Brief. However, Carbon Brief analysis shows ...

Hydrogen gas has long been recognised as an alternative to fossil fuels and a potentially valuable tool for tackling climate change. Now, as nations come forward with net-zero strategies to align with ...

Dead trees around Manasquan Reservoir with low water levels, New Jersey, USA. Credit: Stephen Bonk / Alamy Stock Photo. Almost all global thresholds for a “safe and just” planet have already been ...

The share of electricity in Great Britain generated from burning coal and gas fell to a record-low 2.4% earlier this month, Carbon Brief analysis shows. The record low was reached at lunchtime on ...

As global temperatures continue to rise, there has been a stubbornly cool patch of ocean in the North Atlantic that has intrigued scientists for years. This is the North Atlantic warming “hole” – also ...

UK chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced new measures to cut energy bills alongside a “pay-per-mile” electric-vehicle levy as part of Labour’s second budget. The policy changes are expected to cut ...

Tropical storm over the ocean, Maldives. Credit: RooM the Agency / Alamy Stock Photo. The most state-of-the-art tool available to climate scientists is, perhaps, the Earth System Model (ESM). These ...