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And public polling of Miliband shoots up as a result, presumably...
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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I spent several months trying to get access to FOI documents of Mayor Andrea Jenkyns' correspondence with fracking companies in Lincolnshire.
Read about what I found in my latest piece for The Guardian!
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Half of our agricultural land is used for beef that provides 3% of our calories. Nobody likes it when I bang my spoon on my high chair about this but eventually we need to grapple with it.
Two things to learn from this.
1. The rightwing newspapers are lobby groups whose purpose is to advance the class interest of their proprietors.
2. Lobbyists for the rich and powerful lose their jobs if they are not prepared to lie.
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US President Donald Trump at the White House on 12 February 2026. Credit: Will Oliver / Alamy Stock Photo
NEW – Q&A: What does Trump’s repeal of US ‘endangerment finding’ mean for climate action? | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
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NEW – Analysis: Trump has overseen more coal retirements than any other US president
✍️ by @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
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BREAKING: UK govt auction secures 4.9GW new solar at £65/MWh and 1.3GW new onshore wind at £72/MWh, 13% and 21% below the price cap respectively.
All due online by 2029.
ICYMI -despite promising just over a year ago to triple climate finance from developed world to poor and vulnerable countries, UK govt is now planning to slash climate finance by more than a fifth
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Wrote myself a pep talk to get back to work tomorrow. It helped me. Hope it helps you.
More details in the latest analysis of UK newspaper editorials by myself and @sylviahayes.bsky.social
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The Sun alone published 51 editorials attacking Miliband
The Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph and the Times published most of the remainder.
These editorials are remarkably personal - often attacking Miliband's character as well as suggesting he is "mad" due to his support for net-zero.
The Ed Miliband hate-fest in the UK press continued last year.
Predominantly right-wing newspapers published an incredible 112 editorials attacking the energy secretary.
That's two editorials a week, and more than twice as many as 2024, calling him a "crazed" "zealot" suffering with “eco insanity”
Number of UK newspaper editorials arguing for more (blue) and less (red) climate action, 2011-2025. Some editorials also present a “balanced” view, which is categorised as advocating for neither “more” nor “less” climate action. These editorials are not represented in this chart. Source: Carbon Brief analysis.
NEW – Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @sylviahayes.bsky.social
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Truly wild that the Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express & Daily Telegraph all covered false claims that net-zero will "cost" £7.6bn – or even £9tn – which assumes we could have free gas, free petrol, free petrol cars & free gas power plants if we scrapped net-zero
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President Donald Trump walks off the stage after speaking at a campaign event on 18 June 2024. Credit: Jeffrey Phelps / Alamy Stock Photo
NEW – Q&A: What Trump’s US exit from UNFCCC and IPCC could mean for climate action | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org
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Met Harjeet just a few days ago at a climate justice assembly in Bangladesh where, as always, he was speaking about concerns of the Global South. The Indian government is now hounding him for associations with the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty like as though it is a crime
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."
NEW – Analysis: UK renewables enjoy record year in 2025 – but gas power still rises
✍️ by @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org and Ho Woo Nam
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Coal demand, Mt, in China and the US, including IEA forecasts from the Coal 2024 and Coal 2025 reports (dotted lines). Source: IEA, Carbon Brief analysis.
NEW – IEA: Declining coal demand in China set to outweigh Trump’s pro-coal policies | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social
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This stuff seems to be rife in BBC local news services, it's bizarre.
Annual international adaptation finance, $bn, under a straight line to the agreed 2035 “tripling” target or the proposed 2030 target. This assumes that the 2025 adaptation-finance target of around $40bn is met. Source: UNFCCC.
NEW – Analysis: Why COP30’s ‘tripling adaptation finance’ target is less ambitious than it seems | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social
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SCOOP: Carbon Brief has exclusively obtained a list of 84 countries "opposed" to adding a fossil-fuel roadmap to COP30 deal – but our analysis found a series of contradictions & likely errors
For eg 14 on list are also roadmap "supporters"
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Chancellor of Exchequer Rachel Reeves leaves 11 Downing Street on 26 November 2025. Credit: Simon Dawson / Flickr
NEW – UK budget 2025: Key climate and energy announcements | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
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NEW – COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém
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#COP30
🚨 JUST PUBLISHED: CARBON BRIEF’S #COP30 SUMMARY 🚨
It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting…
–Global mutirão
–Adaptation finance
–Fossil-fuel roadmap
–China
+Much more
Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast
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This is the line that finally got the 3rd review of the Warsaw International Mechanism for loss & damage (WIM) over the line yesterday.
Kenya wanted a reference to the high cost of the Santiago Network secretariat’s location in Geneva. This extra text seems to have been enough to get their approval
HOLY SEE gets booed for its statement on gender and climate.
"...any reference to gender-related terms in any document that has been or that will be adopted by the COP or its subsidiary bodies is to be understood as grounded on the biological sexual identity that is male and female."
