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🎉 Great news: the UK’s emissions fell to their lowest level in 150 years last year, with coal use roughly halving.
𖣘 We also saw record-breaking generation from renewable sources, especially wind & solar.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping arriving at the start of the National People's Congress. Credit: dpa picture alliance / Alamy Stock Photo
NEW – Q&A: What does China’s 15th ‘five-year plan’ mean for climate change?
✍️ By @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org
💬 With comment from @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social, Li Shuo, Li Zheng, Yao Zhe, Ma Jun, Pan Jiahua, Joseph Dellatte, Rebecca Nadin
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NEW – Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, study says
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NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
Daily Briefing: EU 90% target approved | Power prices ‘swing wildly’ | UK coal drop
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NEW – Analysis: UK emissions fall 2.4% in 2025 as coal hits 400-year low
✍️ @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org and Ho Woo Nam
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NEW – Q&A: What the EU’s new industry and ‘Made in Europe’ rules mean for climate action
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Carbon Brief examines how climate features in China’s 15th five-year plan.
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The key climate & energy developments from China over the past fortnight in this issue:
🇨🇳 China set economic and carbon targets for 2026 at “two sessions”.
🇨🇳 Environment and energy officials outline approaches to 15th five-year plan.
🇨🇳German chancellor left China with an agreement on climate.
China Briefing: New five-year climate goals revealed at ‘two sessions’ meeting
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Daily Briefing: China sets out new climate plan | ‘Buy EU’ | Sea level rise ‘underestimated’
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The Carbon Brief Profile: Iran | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social #CBarchive
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Daily Briefing: Net-zero ‘answer’ to energy crisis | ‘High-voltage’ in China | ‘Frivolous desires of ultra-rich’
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Daily Briefing: Gas prices ‘surge’ | UK bills ‘could hit £2,500’ | El Niño’s return
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Countries that submitted their seventh national reports to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity by the deadline of 28 February.
NEW – Analysis: Half of nations meet UN deadline for nature-loss reporting | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org
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Daily Briefing: Oil surges on Middle-East turmoil | China’s CO2 drop | Renewables ‘defy Trump’
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Recommended read: Despite a “political mood [that] has darkened”, there is “more green stuff being installed than ever”, said New York Times columnist @dwallacewells.bsky.social
Recommended read: The US is becoming a “petrostate” that will be “sicker and poorer”, wrote Financial Times associate editor Rana Forohaar.
💡 Spotlight | Is there really a UK ‘greenlash’?
This week, after a historic Green Party byelection win, Carbon Brief looks at whether there really is a “greenlash” against climate policy in the UK.
In this issue:
🇺🇸 Donald Trump’s State of the Union “doubled down on…‘drill, baby, drill’”.
🤝 India and Brazil signed a deal on rare earths and agreed to collaborate on energy.
📆 Key dates for next week and pick of the job vacancies.
DeBriefed: Trump’s fossil-fuel talk | Modi-Lula rare-earth pact | Is there a UK ‘greenlash’?
✍️ Written by @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
📝 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org
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Top 10 English constituencies by FCERM funding in 2024-25 and 2025-26. Source: Environment Agency FCERM data.
NEW – Analysis: Constituency of Reform’s climate-sceptic Richard Tice gets £55m flood funding | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social
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Daily Briefing: Green byelection win | US carbon-levy ‘bullying’ | Italy attacks EUETS
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Mapped: How ‘proxy’ data reveals the climate of the Earth’s distant past | @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @hausfath.bsky.social @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org #CBarchive
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Daily Briefing: UK’s first geothermal plant | Resistance to EU grid upgrade | Merz meets Xi
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