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1 month ago | 
resilience.org | Josh Gabbatiss |Verner Viisainen
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, Carbon Brief analysis reveals. New runways at these airports surrounding London would result in cumulative emissions of around 92m tonnes of extra carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) by 2050, if the number of flights increases in line with their operating company targets.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
resilience.org | Simon Evans |Verner Viisainen
The UK’s electricity was the cleanest ever in 2024, new Carbon Brief analysis shows, with carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit falling by more than two-thirds in a decade. This is because the UK has phased out coal and is now getting less than half as much electricity from burning fossil fuels as a decade ago, while renewable generation has more than doubled.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
resilience.org | Simon Evans |Verner Viisainen
China’s historical emissions within its borders have now caused more global warming than the 27 member states of the EU combined, according to new Carbon Brief analysis. The findings come amid fraught negotiations at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, where negotiators have been invoking the “principle of historical responsibility” in their discussions over who should pay money towards a new goal for climate finance – and how much.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
eco-business.com | Robert McSweeney |Verner Viisainen
This total is more than 15,000 lower than the record-breaking COP in Dubai last year – and marks the first time in seven years that a COP is not larger than its predecessor. The figures are released amid reports that numerous world and industry leaders are skipping the summit, while Papua New Guinea has pulled its delegation out entirely. Nonetheless, the size of the Baku summit still likely outstrips major COPs of the past, including Copenhagen, Paris and Glasgow.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Robert McSweeney |Verner Viisainen
NowConstruida en 1950, esta vivienda con jardín y vistas a la bahía de San Francisco (California) ha sufrido una fabulosa reforma y diseño de interior donde se ha aplicado la filosofía y el estilo más elegante de la arquitectura oriental. Las claves del estilo japandi, la decoración fusión en …
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
carbonbrief.org | Robert McSweeney |Verner Viisainen
More than 65,000 delegates have registered to attend the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, potentially making it the second-largest COP on record. This total is more than 15,000 lower than the record-breaking COP in Dubai last year – and marks the first time in seven years that a COP is not larger than its predecessor. The figures are released amid reports that numerous world and industry leaders are skipping the summit, while Papua New Guinea has pulled its delegation out entirely.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
carbonbrief.org | Verner Viisainen |Simon Evans
Amid all the noise around the COP29 climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, it can be easy to lose sight of the negotiations and the core legal process at the summit. This process often fades into the background, hidden from sight in closed-door negotiating rooms and late-night sessions, where diplomats – and then ministers – hash out their disagreements.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
eco-business.com | Simon Evans |Verner Viisainen
The IEA says that China was responsible for 60 per cent of worldwide renewable installations last year – and will add 60 per cent of new capacity out to 2030. This means that by the early 2030s, solar generation in China alone is set to exceed the US’ current total electricity demand. Notably, this year’s report includes another significant boost to the outlook for solar under current policy settings.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
carbonbrief.org | Simon Evans |Tom Prater |Verner Viisainen
Global electricity generation from solar will quadruple by 2030 and help to push coal power into reverse, according to Carbon Brief analysis of data from the International Energy Agency (IEA). The IEA’s latest World Energy Outlook 2024 shows solar overtaking nuclear, wind, hydro, gas and, finally, coal, to become the world’s single-largest source of electricity by 2033.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
cb-interactive-pages.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com | Molly Lempriere |Simon Evans |Verner Viisainen |Joe Goodman
The UK’s last coal-fired power plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, will close this month, ending a 142-year era of burning coal to generate electricity. The UK’s coal-power phaseout is internationally significant. It is the first major economy – and first G7 member – to achieve this milestone. It also opened the world’s first coal-fired power station in 1882, on London’s Holborn Viaduct.
