Clean-energy technologies drove more than a third of the growth in China’s economy in 2025, according to new analysis for Carbon Brief.
Carbon Brief’s @leohickman.carbonbrief.org summarises the analysis in this video.
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Have China’s emissions just peaked?
China’s CO2 emissions fell in the final quarter of 2025, likely securing a decline for the full year as a whole, according to new analysis for Carbon Brief by @creacleanair.bsky.social
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COP30 was the 11th longest on record
Thank you for those who spotted the incorrect annotations. Here’s the corrected chart
When will #COP30 wrap up? If recent years are anything to go by, negotiations could last well into next weekend (Baku finished at 5am Sunday morning, 36 hours behind schedule…)
DeBriefed | Renewables power past coal; Legacy of UK’s Climate Change Act; Fukushima’s solar future
✍️ Written by @jjgoodman.bsky.social
💻 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org
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View of Shinchi town, Fukushima in 2011 (top) and 2016 (bottom). Credit: Newscom/Alamy Stock Photo
💡 Spotlight | This week, Carbon Brief examines how Fukushima helped to recover from nuclear disaster by building solar farms on contaminated farmland.
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Today's @carbonbrief.org Daily Briefing factchecks the false climate claims in Donald Trump's tirade to the UN
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💡 Spotlight | Lessons from 20 years of Japanese ‘Cool Biz’
This week, Carbon Brief examines a “casual dress” policy that has been “surprisingly effective” at driving emissions savings in Japan.
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DeBriefed | Nigeria’s deadly flash floods; UK’s record spring drives solar surge; Lessons from Japan’s ‘Cool Biz’
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NEW: When I first went to the Arctic in 2019, what I witnessed forever changed me and my outlook on life
When I went back in 2024, I was keen to speak to scientists who spend much longer there on how it has changed them
They had some eye-opening stories
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NEW – Svalbard: Can scientists salvage climate data from rapidly melting glaciers?
✍️ @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @heartmeltingice.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk
🎨 Kerry Cleaver @jjgoodman.bsky.social
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NEW – Svalbard: How it feels to be a climate scientist in the fastest-warming place on Earth
✍️ @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @heartmeltingice.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk
🎨 Kerry Cleaver @jjgoodman.bsky.social
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Every COP logo since 1995 – which is your favourite?
The list of US food items that the UK says might now see retaliatory tariffs seriously makes you wonder what the HELL is going on with our global food system?!
"edible flours and meals of whales, dolphin and porpoises"
Run don’t walk to see Kyoto at Soho place!
Can’t express just how impressive this play was. (See: a very happy row of Carbon Brief journos and my “Telegraph” press pass)
UPDATE – Q&A: What does deep-sea mining mean for climate change and biodiversity loss? | @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @yaninequiroz.bsky.social @giulianaviglione.bsky.social @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org
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UPDATE – The Carbon Brief Profile: Germany | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social
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NEW – The Carbon Brief Profile: Germany | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social
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I've thrown together a Starter Pack for the climate crisis-info crisis overlap. Lots of members from @caadcoalition.bsky.social, so do give them a follow.
It's a work in progress, @ me if you'd like to be included!
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“They don’t make statues of critics”
Roger Egbert:
Points of appeal will include: “whether a conscientious motivation should be treated as mitigation, and whether throwing soup on glass should be sentenced as an act of violence, if it caused some damage to the frame,” according to Defend our Juries.
BREAKING: The Court of Appeal will conduct a hearing of 16 Just Stop Oil protestors, arising from four separate cases, including JSO leader Roger Hallam and Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland who threw soup on glass protecting Van Gogh’s Sunflowers.
My heart goes out to the original Bluesky (aerial survey and height data services)
After tense #COP29 talks, parties agreed on a new climate finance goal... but many argued the USD 300 billion/year was an “insult”
While parties took decisions on carbon markets, on many other issues they remained deadlocked
ENB Summary ➡️ enb.iisd.org/baku-un-clim...
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Countries are required to submit their new emission targets for 2035 by next February.
Japan is considering a new target of 60% emissions cuts by 2035, up from a previous target of 42% reductions, according to this report by Japan's public broadcaster NHK www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
Plastics currently cause triple the emissions of aviation. Greenhouse gas emissions in 2023, in billion tonnes of CO2e. Source: Carbon Brief analysis of Karali et al (2024), the OECD and the UNEP Emissions Gap Report (2024).
Five charts: Why a UN plastics treaty matters for climate change | @vernerviisas.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from Daniela Durán González
🎨 @jjgoodman.bsky.social Kerry Cleaver @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org
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