Storm Abigail struck in November 2015, bringing high winds, lightning and snow and causing power cuts and school closures in northern Scotland. In the decade that has passed, storm naming has become a ...

Global emissions of fossil CO2 – including coal, oil, gas and cement – increased by around 1.1% in 2025, relative to 2024, with an uncertainty range of 0.2-2.2%. This represents a new record high and ...

China’s emissions seem to be flattening after decades of breakneck growth, although there is some uncertainty because of lags in collecting data.” (See separate new analysis published by Carbon Brief ...

The world’s fossil-fuel use is still on track to peak before 2030, despite a surge in political support for coal, oil and gas ...

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 started in March 2024.

According to the provisional figures, 193 countries, plus the European Union, have registered a delegation for the COP30 summit.

Danish climate-sceptic commentator Bjørn Lomborg says in the Wall Street Journal that China’s clean-energy wave “is powered by coal”. [Analysis for Carbon Brief shows that the emissions from making ...

A gathering of world leaders kicked off in Belém, Brazil, ahead of the official opening of COP30 next week, and more climate news from the week.

Carbon Brief’s real-time text tracker offers a helping hand by decoding agenda and keeping a searchable record of every document at COP30 ...

Governments have, once again, failed to agree on a timeline for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) seventh assessment cycle (AR7) ...

The world’s media carries extensive coverage ahead of the official opening of the COP30 UN climate talks in Belém, Brazil ...