Have China’s emissions just peaked? China’s CO2 emissions fell in the final quarter of 2025, likely securing a decline for the full year as a whole, according to new analysis for Carbon Brief by @creacleanair.bsky.social Full analysis here: buff.ly/wC1nbXO

NEW – Analysis: Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025 | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social @belindaschaepe.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/M7N4yjx

I'm delighted to announce that @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org is our new @carbonbrief.org Section Editor (China), stepping up from her previous role as China Analyst Congrats Anika!

Carbon Brief has published its 20,000-word summary of everything that happened at #COP30, incl: 🇧🇷 Brazil's leadership and around the COP 🤝 The ‘Global mutirão’ text 💰 A new tripling adaptation finance goal 💥 The JTWP's Belem Action Mechanism ⌨️ And so much more www.carbonbrief.org/cop30-key-ou...

COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém - Carbon Brief

A voluntary plan to curb fossil fuels, a goal to triple adaptation finance and new...

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What’s happened this week in climate change? 🌎 DeBriefed | Pakistan floods hit 1.8m people; UK ‘eco-populism’; How warming threatens a man-made lake ✍️ Written @solomon.elusoji.carbonbrief.org 💻 Edited @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/8p6iUzW

Are you or your loved ones worried about solar farms? Have you heard scary things about solar panels turning the countryside into an industrial hellscape? Fear not! We at Carbon Brief have just published the definitive article debunking solar myths ⬇️ interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...

Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar

Carbon Brief factchecks 16 of the most common myths about solar power

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She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.

After six months in ICE custody, Charlotte woman chooses voluntary removal to Honduras

A 20-year-old Honduran woman who has lived in the Charlotte area for more than a decade will soon be removed from the U.S.

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DeBriefed | India and Pakistan heat ‘tests human limits’; UK steel crisis sparks net-zero attack; Why Nigerian households are turning to solar ✍️ Written by @solomon.elusoji.carbonbrief.org 📝 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org ➡️ buff.ly/CkloLYm Sign up to our newsletters: buff.ly/19Qg1Rh

NEW: The UN has confirmed to me that there are no US officials present at #COP16 in Rome US is not signed up to the UN biodiversity convention, but usually attends to participate in negotiations To my best of my knowledge, this is the first time the US has been missing at biodiversity talks

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NEW – IPBES nexus report: Five takeaways for biodiversity, food, water, health and climate ✍️ @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org 🔗 Read here ⬇️

IPBES nexus report: Five takeaways for biodiversity, food, water, health and climate - Carbon Brief

“Fragmented governance” between biodiversity, climate change, food, water and health is putting all of those...

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So excited that the brilliant @ceciliakeating.bsky.social has joined @carbonbrief.org this week in a brand new role - science section editor. Cecilia joins our world-class science team feat. @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org & @hausfath.bsky.social

What’s happened this week in climate change? DeBriefed: COP29 disappoints developing countries; Plastics treaty talks; Brazil’s rocky road to COP30 ✍️ Written by Yanine Quiroz 📝 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/4fMHdmF Sign up to our newsletters ➡️ buff.ly/4eCwdqq

I have my platform biases like everyone. But I’m slightly puzzled how little coverage the global plastics treaty talks is getting. Either we get this right or every other story on each site doesn’t matter www.carbonbrief.org/five-charts-...

Five charts: Why a UN plastics treaty matters for climate change - Carbon Brief

A global treaty on plastics, touted as the most important environmental treaty since the Paris Agreement, will be negotiated in South Korea.

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NEW – COP29: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Baku #COP29 ➡️ https://buff.ly/3V5jndk

+CLIMATE FINANCE TARGET AGREED AT COP29+ Several draft texts swirled around last night, and a day of fraught negotiations resulted in this: 💰 Core goal of "at least" $300bn/year for developing countries 💰Developed countries "take the lead". Developing can contribute voluntarily