China Briefing, 20 May 2021: Emissions growth fastest in a decade; Xinjiang plant refutes...
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China weekly digest. We handpick and explain the most important climate and energy stories from China over the past seven days.
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Analysis: China’s carbon emissions grow at fastest rate for more than a decade
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have grown at their fastest pace in more than a decade, increasing by 15% year-on-year in the first quarter...
Analysis: How will England’s strategies for trees and peat help achieve net-zero by 2050?
Plans to plant millions of trees and restore swathes of peatland across England are at the heart of two new UK government strategies to...
Hurricane Sandy caused an ‘extra $8bn’ damage due to human-caused sea level rise
More than $8bn of the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 was due to the increase in sea levels caused by human-caused climate...
IEA: Renewables should overtake coal ‘within five years’ to secure 1.5C goal
The world needs a “radical” shift towards renewables to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 and secure the 1.5C goal, says the International Energy Agency...
Guest post: Lessons learned from five years of extreme weather ‘rapid attribution’
In the immediate aftermath of an extreme weather event, a common question arises around how much human-caused climate change contributed to its likelihood or...
China Briefing, 13 May 2021: Greta Thunberg criticised; Former energy official arrested; EV boom...
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China weekly digest. We handpick and explain the most important climate and energy stories from China over the past seven days.
This...
Guest post: Why the low carbon transition may be much cheaper than models predict
To achieve net-zero emissions by mid-century, global energy systems must undergo a wholesale switch to low-carbon and energy-efficient technologies.
However, many models used to chart...
Land-use change has affected ‘almost a third’ of world’s terrain since 1960
Current estimates of land-use change may be capturing only one-quarter of its true extent across the world, new research shows.
The paper, published in Nature...
‘Exceptional new normal’: IEA raises growth forecast for wind and solar by another 25%
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has raised its forecast for the global growth of wind and solar by another 25% compared to figures it...
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