Carbon Brief

3 days ago | carbonbrief.org | Daisy Dunne |Simon Evans

The UK government’s official climate advisers are now “more optimistic” that the country can hit its emissions targets than they were before the Labour government was elected in July 2024. Speaking ahead of the launch of the Climate Change Committee’s 2025 progress report, Prof Piers Forster, the CCC’s interim chair, told journalists it would be “possible” to meet the UK’s 2030 international climate goal, as well as its 2050 target to cut emissions to net-zero.

1 week ago | carbonbrief.org | Aruna Chandrasekhar

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. ‘DOOMED TO BREACH’: At current carbon dioxide (CO2) emission levels, the world is “doomed to breach the symbolic 1.5C warming limit” in as little as three years, according to research by 60 climate scientists covered by BBC News.

1 week ago | carbonbrief.org | Giuliana Viglione

Average global yields of six staple crops could fall by more than 11% under a moderate warming scenario by the end of the century – even when accounting for how farmers could adapt to climate change, new research finds. The study, published in Nature, examines changes in yields for cassava, maize, rice, sorghum, soya bean and wheat under two different warming scenarios. But, unlike previous studies, it also factors in adaptive measures that farmers may employ to adjust to the changing climate.

2 weeks ago | carbonbrief.org | Zeke Hausfather

Human-caused emissions of aerosols – tiny, light‑scattering particles produced mainly by burning fossil fuels – have long acted as an invisible brake on global warming. This is largely because they absorb or reflect incoming sunlight and influence the formation and brightness of clouds. These combined effects act to lower regional and global temperatures.

3 weeks ago | carbonbrief.org | Joe Goodman

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. FLOODING: Up to 700 people are believed to have been killed by flash floods in Nigeria, reported BBC News. Northern Nigeria has faced “prolonged dry spells worsened by climate change”, followed by “excessive rainfall”, which can cause flash flooding, reported the Associated Press.