Kerry Cleaver

2 weeks ago | interactive.carbonbrief.org | Daisy Dunne |Joe Goodman |Kerry Cleaver

On a speedboat in the Arctic Ocean, a team of scientists are hurtling towards a glacier known as Blomstrandbreen, an 18-km-long river of blue and grey ice. Blombstrandbreen sits on top of Svalbard, an island located at 79 degrees north in the Arctic Ocean. The terminus of the glacier directly faces the sea – and, to get close, the boat must navigate car-sized chunks of ice that have recently calved off the glacier.

2 weeks ago | interactive.carbonbrief.org | Daisy Dunne |Joe Goodman |Kerry Cleaver

In the Arctic Ocean, around 400 miles from the north pole, lies the island of Svalbard. Named after the Viking word for “cold edge”, the island lay largely undisturbed before it was used as a base for whaling in the 17th and 18th centuries and transformed into a coal-mining hub in the 20th century. Today, the capital, Longyearbyen, is a tourist destination. Further north, an international climate research station has been set up in the former mining town of Ny-Ålesund.

2 weeks ago | buff.ly | Daisy Dunne |Joe Goodman |Kerry Cleaver

On a speedboat in the Arctic Ocean, a team of scientists are hurtling towards a glacier known as Blomstrandbreen, an 18-km-long river of blue and grey ice. Blombstrandbreen sits on top of Svalbard, an island located at 79 degrees north in the Arctic Ocean. The terminus of the glacier directly faces the sea – and, to get close, the boat must navigate car-sized chunks of ice that have recently calved off the glacier.

1 month ago | interactive.carbonbrief.org | Orla Dwyer |Yanine Quiroz |Kerry Cleaver |Tom Pearson

According to the FAO, agroecology is a “holistic and integrated approach that simultaneously applies ecological and social concepts and principles to the design and management of sustainable agriculture and food systems’. It is “concurrently a science, a set of practices and a social movement”, the FAO adds.

2 months ago | interactive.carbonbrief.org | Wanyuan Song |Xiaoying You |Kerry Cleaver |Tom Pearson

“Dual-carbon” goals, or the “2030/2060 goals”, refer to China’s two climate goals announced by President Xi Jinping at the 75th session of the UN General Assembly in September 2020. Xi announced that China would reach its carbon emissions peak “before 2030” and then achieve “carbon neutrality by 2060”.