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Solar panels and wind turbines in a field

Guest post: How solar geoengineering could disrupt wind and solar power

Solar geoengineering has been suggested as a temporary measure to buy time for the emissions cuts needed to stabilise global temperatures. These a... Read More

Guest posts | Oct 3. 2024.
Large vehicles submerged in floodwater, Worcestershire, UK.

Guest post: The forgotten role of logistics in achieving net-zero

Logistics is often thought of as merely the process of moving things from one place to another. The appearance of the word on the sides of lorries... Read More

Guest posts | Sep 23. 2024.
Coal-fired power plant, in Uttar Pradesh, India.

Guest post: Just 15 countries account for 98% of new coal-power development

Over the past 10 years, the global energy transition away from coal has accelerated. The number of countries with coal power under development (pre-c... Read More

Coal | Sep 3. 2024.
Woman on a withered maize field.

Guest post: Using El Niño forecasts to give early warning of crop failures

Extreme weather is one of the primary drivers of crop failures around the world. Crop failures – the total or near-total loss of a farm or regio... Read More

Food and farming | Aug 28. 2024.
Tired woman suffering from heat sits in bed at night.

Guest post: The growing problem of how extreme heat damages mental health

In recent years, discussions around the impact of climate change on mental health have tended to focus on climate anxiety. This distress regarding... Read More

Guest posts | Jul 19. 2024.
A power plant along route 95 in New Jersey.

Guest post: Tracking G7 climate progress with data from 116,095 power plants

Expanding and decarbonising the world’s electricity supplies is key to meeting global climate goals – and this has been reflected in a serie... Read More

International policy | Jul 15. 2024.
Riiser Larsen Ice Shelf in Weddell Sea, Antarctica.

Guest post: The critical role of ‘grounding zones’ in the retreat of Earth’s ice sheets

The vast ice sheets that cover Greenland and Antarctica have the potential to trigger catastrophic sea level rise as the climate warms. But the ic... Read More

Guest posts | Jun 25. 2024.
Heavy traffic on the Autobahn A8 motorway, near Stuttgart, Germany.

Guest post: Tracking the unprecedented impact of humans on the climate

Our new scientific assessment of how humans are affecting the climate is nothing short of alarming, yet it does contain some encouraging news. The... Read More

Guest posts | Jun 5. 2024.
Turtle grass (thalassia testudinum), The Bahamas.

Guest post: The role of ‘blue carbon’ in addressing climate change

Within the ocean’s vast expanse lie immense reservoirs of carbon – surpassing those found in either the atmosphere or the land.  The ocea... Read More

Guest posts | May 29. 2024.
Heat pumps in the front garden of terraced houses in Duesseldorf, Germany. Image ID: 2WR3BD8.

Guest post: Heat pumps gained European market share in 2023 despite falling sales

Following several years of strong growth, heat pump markets slowed in Europe in 2023.  In previous articles for Carbon Brief, we discussed th... Read More

Guest posts | May 21. 2024.
Solar power station, Dunhuang, China.

Guest post: How China’s energy system can reach carbon neutrality before 2055

China’s thinking around the energy transition shifted drastically in 2020 after president Xi Jinping pledged to reach carbon neutrality before 2060... Read More

China Policy | May 15. 2024.
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