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Emma Pinchbeck has been the chief executive of the UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) since...

The world would not need to invest in new oil and gas projects if demand for the fuels fell in line with the 1.5C limit on global warming, says the IEA

Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity “by 2026 at the latest”, according to new IEA forecasts.

Reaching net-zero will be much cheaper for the UK government than previously expected – and the economic damages of climate change far more severe.

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week's key developments relating to climate change.

The leader of the opposition Conservative party, Kemi Badenoch, has shattered the political consensus on climate change in a speech attacking the UK’s net-zero by 2050 target.

Carbon Brief interviews leading international law scholar Prof Philippe Sands to find out more about the legal issues at stake in the ICJ case.

Talks for the world’s first binding treaty to curb plastic pollution collapsed and $300bn finance goal is “even less ambitious than it seems".

During the 2024 UK general election campaign, politicians and newspapers have used a series of “scary-sounding numbers” to mislead voters about net-zero.

UK's energy bills were £22bn higher over the past decade than they would have been if Conservative governments had not cut “green crap” climate policies.

Carbon Brief has asked a range of policy experts what they think the European election results will mean for EU climate action over the next five years.

Following weeks of deadly heat, Mexico elected former climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum as its first female president, and more in climate news this week.

Great Britain’s share of electricity generated from burning coal and gas fell to a record-low 2.4% this month Carbon Brief analysis shows.

The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 5.7% in 2023 to their lowest level since 1879, according to new Carbon Brief analysis.

New research found that the large system of ocean currents that helps keep western Europe milder “may already be on course to a tipping point”.

There is near-universal global public support for climate action, yet people underestimate the commitment of their peers, according to a new study.

Carbon Brief factchecks 21 of the most common – and persistent – myths about electric vehicles.

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change.

The cuts and freezes in fuel duty since 2010 means the UK’s CO2 emissions are as much as 7% higher than they would have been.

Headline-grabbing announcements about nuclear power and carbon capture and storage (CCS) featured prominently in the UK 2023 spring budget.