Global sea level rise began accelerating ‘30 years earlier’ than previously thought
Global sea level rise began to accelerate in the 1960s, 30 years earlier than suggested by previous assessments, a new study finds.
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Interactive: How climate change could threaten the world’s traditional dishes
Climate change is likely to alter the way that the world grows, trades and enjoys food.
Warming temperatures could cause growing conditions to change –...
Climate change made Europe’s 2019 record heatwave up to ‘100 times more likely’
The run of unprecedented temperatures in July – which sent records tumbling in the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany – would have been “extremely...
Guest post: What the UK can learn from carbon pricing schemes around the world
Joshua Burke is a policy fellow and Rebecca Byrnes is a policy analyst, both at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the...
Analysis: UK primary energy use in 2018 was the lowest in half a century
Falling energy use and surging offshore wind are among the trends revealed in the latest round of government figures on the energy flowing through...
China’s emissions ‘could peak 10 years earlier than Paris climate pledge’
CO2 emissions in China may peak up to a decade earlier than the nation has pledged under the Paris Agreement, according to a new...
Analysis: Does the UK ‘require’ new nuclear to reach net-zero emissions?
A new government consultation, published this week, asserts that the UK “will…require” new nuclear or gas-fired power stations with carbon capture and storage (CCS),...
Guest post: Why demand for cooling could make the world hotter
Pedro Guertler is programme leader for heat, cooling and energy efficiency at independent climate thinktank E3G and leads its work for the Kigali Cooling...
State of the climate: 2019 set to be second or third warmest year
With the data now in for the first half of the year, Carbon Brief estimates that 2019 is most likely to be either the...
Global extent of climate change is ‘unparalleled’ in past 2,000 years
The “globally coherent” rise in temperatures seen since the start of the industrial revolution is “unparalleled” in at least the past 2,000 years, a...
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