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The world is experiencing record heat – this is why it’s about to get worse

IN FOCUS: The climate crisis is already displacing millions of people from their homes as they seek to escape extreme weather events, desertification and drought, writes Alicja Hagopian. With Donald Trump ordering billions of dollars of cuts to climate aid projects, the poorest and most vulnerable countries face even greater…

The Independent UK

UK emissions fell to lowest level since 1872 last year, analysis finds

The country’s planet-warming emissions fell by 3.6% to 371 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (Mtco2e) in 2024, Carbon Brief found.

Evening Standard

Clean energy contributed 10% to China’s GDP in 2024, analysis shows

Study found electric vehicles and batteries added largest amount to country’s clean-energy economy

The Guardian - UK

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UK, Germany Electricity Cleanest On Record In 2024

Britain and Germany produced their cleanest electricity on record last year, with renewables reaching record highs, according to data released Thursday.

International Business Times

UK Electricity Cleanest On Record In 2024: Study

Britain produced its cleanest electricity on record last year with output of fossil fuels at an all-time low and renewables reaching a record-high, a study has showed.

International Business Times

UK electricity cleanest ever in 2024, with record 58% from low-carbon sources

UK has more than halved amount of electricity generated from fossil fuels but gas still had largest share at 28%

The Guardian - UK

UK’s electricity was cleanest ever in 2024, analysis finds

Carbon Brief assessment showed fossil fuel power generation fell to record lows while renewables climbed to new highs.

Evening Standard

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Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal

Exclusive: Analyses are stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity

The Guardian - UK

The Crunch: who’s ahead in Australia’s polls, supermarket prices and Silicon Valley politically split

Guardian Australia launches it's new poll-tracking page. Plus: the gap between climate action and pledges

The Guardian - AU

About 80% of countries fail to submit plans to preserve nature ahead of global summit

Countries promised to save 30% of land and sea for nature - but as their deadline approaches, only 24 have followed through with a plan

The Guardian - UK

UK will need to double nature protection funding to meet targets, new data shows

Carbon Brief says more than £800m will need to be spent in each of the next two years

The Guardian - UK

Trump’s Environmental Agenda: Embrace Big Oil, Ignore the Climate Crisis

Project 2025 plan to gut climate policy and boost fossil fuels could set back global efforts for decades, say scientists and analysts.

Capital & Main

UK accused of double counting £500m of aid to meet climate pledge

Humanitarian work in Afghanistan and Yemen now classified as climate finance, FoI request reveals, as £11.6bn pledge slips

The Guardian - UK

UK use of gas and coal for electricity at lowest since 1957, figures show

Fossil fuel plants contributed about a third of electricity supplies in 2023 and renewables a record 42%

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The Guardian - UK

British empire’s past emissions ‘double UK’s climate responsibility’

Data shows that including CO2 from countries once under colonial rule makes Britain one of world’s biggest historical emitters

Radio France Internationale

China's carbon emissions set to drop on back of clean energy boom

China’s carbon emissions are set to fall in 2024 thanks to record growth in the installation of clean energy sources, a report published Monday said.

The Guardian - UK

Tuesday briefing: Why eco-conscious King Charles is announcing new gas and oil projects today

In today’s newsletter: In his first King’s Speech, the new monarch will announce his government’s annual priorities – including a slate of climate-unfriendly policies

The Guardian - UK

More than £2bn of UK foreign climate aid channelled through consultancies since 2010

Findings raise concerns among experts who say climate funding works best when invested directly in local communities

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Capital & Main

Time to Kill Off ‘Net Zero’

Stop pretending planting trees can justify fossil fuels emissions.

The Guardian - UK

Fact check: why Rowan Atkinson is wrong about electric vehicles

Last week we ran a piece by Rowan Atkinson casting doubt on the environmental benefits of electric vehicles. Here Simon Evans of Carbon Brief offers his response

Newsroom.co.nz

Carbon removal tech would use more energy than all homes combined, Shell finds

Work by oil giant Shell throws doubt on an energy-intensive technology to suck carbon from the air

Evening Standard

What Lula’s victory in the Brazilian election could mean for the Amazon rainforest

Lula radically reduced the deforestation of the Amazon in his time in office from 2003 to 2011

Newslaundry

A new database for climate journalists to help tackle ‘twin bias’ against global south

A publicly available database of climate experts has been released – by news portal Carbon Brief and the Oxford Climate Journalism Network – to help journalists cover climate change in the global south.

The Guardian - UK

Melting ‘snowflakes’? How climate change became a new front in the right’s culture war

The Daily Mail and others have now switched focus to criticising the policy response, says Leo Hickman, editor of Carbon Brief

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