China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that started in March 2024.

Danish climate-sceptic commentator Bjørn Lomborg says in the Wall Street Journal that China’s clean-energy wave “is powered by coal”. [Analysis for Carbon Brief shows that the emissions from making ...

The world’s media carries extensive coverage ahead of the official opening of the COP30 UN climate talks in Belém, Brazil ...

Carbon Brief details what the Baku to Belém roadmap is, why it was launched and what the key points within it are.

Billed as the “Amazon COP”, the UN climate talks will see the debut of Brazil’s flagship fund to “reward” tropical countries ...

Governments have, once again, failed to agree on a timeline for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) seventh assessment cycle (AR7) ...

Carbon Brief’s real-time text tracker offers a helping hand by decoding agenda and keeping a searchable record of every document at COP30 ...

A gathering of world leaders kicked off in Belém, Brazil, ahead of the official opening of COP30 next week, and more climate news from the week.

Developing countries are receiving just a fraction of the international finance they need to adapt infrastructure for ...

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The latest round of country climate plans ‘barely move the needle’ on future warming, the head of the United Nations Environment Programme has warned ...