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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 28/09/2026
NEW – Analysis: Lula presidency saved at least 20,000km2 of Brazilian Amazon since 2022 ✍️ By @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org and @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social 💬 With comments from @claudioangelo.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/QqRBFfy
Chart titled "Lula presidency saved at least 20,000km2 of Brazilian Amazon since 2022" and subtitled "Annual Amazon deforestation, km2." Deforestation peaked above 13,000 km2 in 2021 under Bolsonaro, then fell sharply under Lula to around 6,000 km2 by 2024. Source: INPE PRODES, INPE DETER, Soterroni et al. (2023).
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 04/09/2026
NEW – How this summer’s heat and drought impacted crops in Europe – in six charts ✍️ Written by @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org 📊 Data analysis by Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/E1uI8OA
Changes in cereal production in 26 EU countries between 2025 and 2026. Malta is excluded due to a lack of available data. Source: European Commission.
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 12/08/2026
"This is gaslighting of the highest order. The truth is, it requires dedicated ideological belief to argue against the scientific evidence that net-zero is needed to stop ever more expensive and destructive warming." @pilitaclark.bsky.social in today's FT giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 29/07/2026
NEW – World falling short on 22 of 23 nature targets for 2030, says draft UN report | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @arunacsekhar.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/D2XVoGo
Puffins diving from a cliff in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada in October 2025. Credit: Cavan Images / Alamy Stock Photo
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 28/07/2026
Wind and solar have just overtaken fossil-fuel power in Germany www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Orla Dwyer @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org · 28/07/2026
Just 16% of countries met a 2025 deadline to identify their nature-harming subsidies, according to new analysis by @giulianaviglione.bsky.social and I 🐛
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Orla Dwyer @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org · 20/07/2026
A look at the possible climate impacts of the new EU Emissions Trading System review proposal, feat. slower path to zero emissions, more free allowances and integrating permanent carbon removals
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Q&A: What the EU’s carbon market review means for climate action - Carbon Brief
The European Commission has put forward new plans to cut emissions under the EU carbon...
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Daisy Dunne @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org · 14/07/2026
Andy Burnham hasn't said much on climate change recently But in the past he's been very outspoken about protecting net-zero and even signed the fossil fuel treaty for phasing them out just last year, while GM mayor More by me and @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org ⬇️ www.carbonbrief.org/28-quotes-fr...
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28 quotes from next UK leader Andy Burnham on climate, net-zero and fossil fuels - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief recounts 28 things that Andy Burnham has said about climate change, net-zero, fossil fuels, energy and transport.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 10/07/2026
NEW – Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate | @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @zekehausfather.com Read here: buff.ly/EynMeIk
Average number of days per year with a daily maximum temperature of at least 30C in a selection of major European cities, for each decade since the 1950s. Source: Copernicus ERA5, Carbon Brief analysis by Dr Zeke Hausfather.
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Orla Dwyer @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org · 25/06/2026
Twice (!) as many animals died due to heat stress en route to slaughterhouses during record-hot UK summer last year compared to 2024
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Livestock heat deaths in transit doubled in UK record-hot summer of 2025 - Carbon Brief
Twice as many animals died due to heat stress en route to slaughterhouses during the UK’s record-hot summer in 2025 compared to 2024, according to new Carbon Brief analysis.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 20/03/2026
Q&A: What England’s new ‘land-use framework’ means for climate, nature and food ✍️ @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️
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Q&A: What England’s new ‘land-use framework’ means for climate, nature and food - Carbon Brief
Just 1% of England’s land will be needed for renewables to help meet the UK’s climate goals by 2050, according to a first-of-its-kind framework.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 11/03/2026
UPDATED – Mapped: How extreme weather is destroying crops around the world ✍️ @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org 🎨 @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/oTKjd5n
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 09/02/2026
NEW – IPBES: Four key takeaways on how nature loss threatens the global economy | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/sYndpga
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IPBES: Four key takeaways on how nature loss threatens the global economy - Carbon Brief
The "undervaluing" of nature by businesses is fuelling its decline and putting the global economy at risk, according to a major new report.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 12/12/2025
NEW – ‘Cali Fund’ aiming to raise billions for nature receives first donation – of just $1,000 | @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️
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‘Cali Fund’ aiming to raise billions for nature receives first donation – of just $1,000 - Carbon Brief
A major biodiversity fund – which could generate billions of dollars annually for conservation – received its first donation of just $1,000 in November.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 28/11/2025
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" Read more➡️ www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Brazil’s $125bn forest fund – framed as the “biggest thing to come out of COP30” – goes live tomorrow. Critics point out that TFFF “puts private investors first”, forest payouts last + sets a 🌳 bar too low to be “scientifically credible”. @yaninequiroz.bsky.social and I 🕵🏽‍♀️, for @carbonbrief.org.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 24/10/2025
NEW – UN report: Five charts showing how global deforestation is declining | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/EnDIN4D
An aerial view of a forest. Credit: Akhararat Wathanasing / Alamy Stock Photo
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* #methane metric means for farming emissions By @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org #climatecrisis www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-the-...
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Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions - Carbon Brief
A controversial way of measuring how much methane warms the planet has stirred debate in recent years – particularly around assessing the climate impact of livestock farming.
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Róisín Moriarty @roisinmoriarty.com · 06/10/2025
Missed this, as I was travelling, but an excellent explainer all about GWP* (read GWP-star) from @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @carbonbrief.org #methane #metrics #climateaction
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Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions - Carbon Brief
A controversial way of measuring how much methane warms the planet has stirred debate in recent years – particularly around assessing the climate impact of livestock farming.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 03/10/2025
NEW – Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/vmZWYtQ
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Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions - Carbon Brief
A controversial way of measuring how much methane warms the planet has stirred debate in recent years – particularly around assessing the climate impact of livestock farming.
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Orla Dwyer @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org · 03/10/2025
I’ve spent months looking into GWP* - a way of measuring methane that has been labelled an 'accounting trick' by some and a fairer way to assess methane by others This Q&A gets into all the science and spats about GWP* and the current situation in places like NZ and Ireland 🐮 buff.ly/vmZWYtQ
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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
It has been a decade since the Paris Agreement. And with COP30 in Brazil on the horizon, there have been calls for major reform at the UN climate talks. We asked 16 experts - including former negotiators and COP veterans - what they think should change at these events. ➡️ buff.ly/JWL8AQN
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 08/08/2025
NEW ANALYSIS: Wildfires have already scorched a UK-record land area in 2025, double the previous high – and 4x above average By Orla Dwyer, Ho Woo Nam + Tom Prater www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 06/08/2025
NEW – Revealed: ‘Cali Fund’ for nature still empty as emails show industry hesitation | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @sivathambisetty.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/YaUavl0
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Orla Dwyer @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org · 06/08/2025
The Cali Fund agreed at COP16 talks last year is still empty 5 months after its launch - despite expectations of first pledges in spring FOI docs also show that AstraZeneca did not take up an offer to be a "frontrunner" in committing to donate to the fund www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-cal...
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Orla Dwyer @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org · 21/07/2025
UK potatoes, South Korean cabbage and west African cocoa are among the foods that became more expensive after weather extremes fuelled by climate change in recent years www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-16-ti...
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Orla Dwyer @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org · 24/06/2025
Amid ongoing Bonn talks and London climate week, Brazil and the UN today began a “global ethical stocktake” to hear from civil society before COP30 Mary Robinson, co-organiser for the Europe discussions, says they talked about climate justice, accountability and the “need to rebuild community”
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 14/04/2025
NEW – Glossary: Carbon Brief’s guide to 24 ‘climate-friendly’ farming methods | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @yaninequiroz.bsky.social 🎨 Kerry Ann Cleaver and Tom Pearson Read here: buff.ly/R9vJYz4
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 03/03/2025
Today at 3pm (GMT), Carbon Brief is hosting a free webinar on the key outcomes of the resumed COP16 biodiversity talks 🎙️ Featuring our specialist team of food, land and nature journalists who are on the ground in Rome 🇮🇹 or following remotely Register here ➡️ buff.ly/3D9PH98
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Orla Dwyer @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org · 28/02/2025
What happened at round 2 of COP16 nature talks? 🇮🇹 In the early hours of this morn countries signed off on: Strategy to raise more money to help conserve biodiversity Plans to set up a “permanent arrangement” for nature finance www.carbonbrief.org/cop16-key-ou...
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COP16: Key outcomes agreed at the resumed UN biodiversity conference in Rome - Carbon Brief
Countries have agreed at the resumed COP16 talks in Rome to a strategy for “mobilising”...
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Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Not a new nature fund just yet, but developing countries get something much bigger, 3 decades in the making: a permanent mechanism for biodiversity finance. Esp significant in today's geopolitical climate that has cast a cloud over cooperation and hopes for more funding for nature and climate.
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Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We're in what should be the final hours of COP16. And there's new informal text out on 🌱 finance, key to its success. With inputs from bloc reps, it seems way more coherent than the last draft. L: 26 Feb draft. www.cbd.int/doc/c/b198/d... R: Tonight's non-paper. www.cbd.int/doc/c/214f/6...
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Orla Dwyer @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org · 27/02/2025
Talks winding to a close tonight at #COP16 round 2 Next round of draft texts are due in an hour, followed by a plenary at 9pm Rome-time that’s supposedly ending at 11pm 🤷‍♀️ Lots still left to discuss
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Orla Dwyer @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org · 26/02/2025
NEW resource mobilisation draft has arrived at #COP16 More details added to paragraphs 19-25 where the main contentions lie Countries will go through this revised draft in a plenary meeting starting shortly 🍿 www.cbd.int/doc/c/b198/d...
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Orla Dwyer @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org · 26/02/2025
New resource mobilisation draft is due later today at COP16.2 in Rome A 🧊 metaphor from Susana Muhamad to start out day 2... Country positions are the "tip of the iceberg", she says, and the reason behind positions is the mass under the surface Informal chats revealed these reasons last night
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Orla Dwyer @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org · 25/02/2025
🧬 The Cali fund - where companies who use genetic data from nature in their products can send cash - has been officially launched (This fund was one of the main outcomes of the COP16 talks in Cali)
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Orla Dwyer @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org · 25/02/2025
COP16.2 officially opens 🇮🇹 Susana Muhamad: “We have an important responsibility here in Rome. In 2025, we can send a light globally and be able to say even with our differences, even with our tensions…we are able to collaboratively work together for something that transcends our own interests.”
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Tom Prater @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org · 24/02/2025
Extreme weather is destroying crops around the world, from hurricanes hitting bananas and yams in Jamaica, to drought ruining maize crops in Myanmar last year. We mapped a global snapshot of the impacts from media reports for @carbonbrief.org interactive.carbonbrief.org/crops-extrem... #dataviz
World map showing 100 cases where crops have been destroyed by extreme weather, such as drought, rain and flooding or storms.
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Orla Dwyer @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org · 24/02/2025
There is “no alternative to succeeding” at the resumed COP16 talks in Rome, convention on biological diversity chief Astrid Schomaker says COP16 pres Susana Muhamad also confirms she still has full capacity as Colombia’s environment minister and will preside over the talks
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Orla Dwyer @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org · 21/02/2025
New doc from COP16 pres Susana Muhamad feat. suggestions to ease finance sticking points ahead of the biodiversity talks picking up again next week in Rome Left shows one part of most recent draft text around a new nature fund proposal, right is Muhamad's suggestion www.cbd.int/doc/c/7d83/4...
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Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
🆕 The fight for a new nature fund brought #COP16 talks to a halt in Colombia last year. A week before talks resume in Rome, a "reflection note" from Susana Muhamad – whose COP16 presidency has been under a cloud after her resignation – suggests a way out. www.cbd.int/doc/c/b0ca/7...
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Orla Dwyer @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org · 14/02/2025
In the past two years, floods ruined soybeans growing in Brazil, a hurricane destroyed millions of $$ worth of crops in Jamaica and drought hit Sri Lankan rice This new interactive map gives a snapshot of how extreme weather is damaging crops, feat. 100 news stories from 2023-24 buff.ly/42Rqf2D
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Daisy Dunne @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org · 10/02/2025
NEW: Just 10/195 countries signed up to the Paris Agreement met the UN’s 10 Feb deadline to submit their 2035 climate pledges UN climate chief Simon Stiell said latecomers must submit by September
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Tom Prater @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org · 28/01/2025
A forest twice the size of Greater London would need to be planted in the UK to cancel out the extra emissions from the expansion of Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton airports. That's more than 300,000 hectares... Chart for @carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-... #dataviz
Line chart showing the increase in aviation emissions if Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton airports were expanded.
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Orla Dwyer @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org · 12/12/2024
Defra recently paid £57.5m from the farming recovery fund to English farmers hit by intense rain last winter - which is 75 times more than the amount given the last time the fund opened in 2020, figures released to Carbon Brief show
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 28/11/2024
UPDATED – Ireland election 2024: What the manifestos say on climate change and energy | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/4i5yGN3
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Orla Dwyer @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org · 27/11/2024
Take a look at the main climate-related pledges from Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and Fine Gael ahead of Ireland's election this Friday ⬇️ More parties will be added by tomorrow
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Ireland election 2024: What the manifestos say on climate change and energy  - Carbon Brief
On 29 November, Ireland will hold its first general election since before the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
To understand global south anger at the COP29 climate finance goal it's crucial to understand two key numbers. 1️⃣ "At least" $300bn/year - developed nations agreed to "take the lead" in mobilising this for developing countries 2️⃣ $1.3tn/year - a wider, vaguer goal They sound pretty big! But...
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Orla Dwyer @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org · 25/11/2024
Ireland's 3 biggest parties - Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin - "failed" this manifesto assessment on climate policies by @foeireland.bsky.social ahead of the general election this Friday Labour ranked in first, followed by the Social Democrats and the Green Party
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 24/11/2024
NEW – COP29: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Baku #COP29 ➡️ buff.ly/3V5jndk
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