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Guest post: Why German coal power is falling fast in 2019
Karsten Capion is senior adviser at Danish Energy, the membership body for the Danish energy industry. In August, he will be joining the Danish...
Guest post: A new approach for understanding the remaining carbon budget
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Analysis: How Trump’s rollback of vehicle fuel standards would increase US emissions
The Trump administration’s plans to rollback vehicle fuel-economy standards could increase emissions from the light vehicles sector by 13%, a Carbon Brief analysis shows.
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CCC: UK has just 18 months to avoid ’embarrassment’ over climate inaction
The UK government only has 12-18 months left to raise its game on climate policy, or risk “embarrassment” as the likely host of the...
Europe ‘could get 10 times’ its electricity needs from onshore wind, study says
An increased rollout of onshore wind turbines across Europe could technically provide the continent with more than 10 times its existing electricity needs, according...
Guest post: Understanding the UK’s recent spike in wildfires
Dr Thomas Smith is assistant professor in environmental geography in the Department of Geography & Environment at the London School of Economics.
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France’s record-breaking heatwave made ‘at least five times’ more likely by climate change
The record-breaking heatwave that struck France last week was made at “least five times more likely” by climate change, according to a new quick-fire...
Bonn climate talks: key outcomes from the June 2019 UN climate conference
A record-breaking European heatwave provided a fitting backdrop to the latest round of UN climate change talks, in which delegates from around the world...
Analysis: Major update to ocean-heat record could shrink 1.5C carbon budget
The UK’s Met Office recently released “HadSST4”, the largest update since 2011 to its widely used sea surface temperature (SST) record.
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