Oil prices have surged over the $100-a-barrel threshold for the first time in almost four years, says the Financial Times ...

The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 2.4% in 2025 to their lowest level in more than 150 years, according to new Carbon ...

An acceleration in human-caused global warming could see the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit breached before 2030, a new study suggests. The paper, published in Geophysical Research Letters, finds that, ...

Drought and heatwaves occurring together – known as “compound” events – have increased “substantially” across the world since the early 2000s, a new study shows.

China’s leadership has published a draft of its 15th five-year plan setting the strategic direction for the nation out to 2030, including support for clean energy and energy security. The plan sets a ...

In this Q&A, Carbon Brief outlines the key details of the proposal, what must happen for it to take effect and what it could mean for climate change. Industries such as steel, cement and chemicals ...

China’s government has released a new ‌economic decarbonisation plan that seeks to put its carbon intensity reduction programme back on track ...

EU member states have given their final approval to a new target to cut greenhouse gas emissions 90% by 2040, in a move that “press[es] ahead with the bloc’s ambitious climate agenda despite political ...

The constituency of Richard Tice MP, the climate-sceptic deputy leader of Reform UK, is the second-largest recipient of flood defence spending in England, according to new Carbon Brief analysis.