A now-familiar playbook for climate-denying state attorneys general is to launch burdensome investigations of climate-minded corporate enterprises based on inchoate antitrust claims (often conspicuously lacking a profit motive for the alleged antitrust violations). These enforcement tactics crystallize two challenges for corporate climate initiatives seeking to steer clear of antitrust liability. First: in order to prevent […]

Climate alliances have become a common target of antitrust campaigns over the last several years, particularly given the complex market dynamics for these alliances to navigate, with effective industry-wide transformation often necessitating some degree of coordination among competitors. In previous blog posts, we have addressed state legislatures’ efforts to undermine reasonable climate-mitigation investment initiatives—often by […]

Introduction In recent years, the number of data centers in the United States and worldwide has grown rapidly, driven by the expansion of cloud computing, digital services, and artificial intelligence applications. These facilities consume substantial amounts of electricity. Projections indicate that data centers could account for about 4 – 5 % of total U.S. electricity […]

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week EU leaders agreed climate goal ‘truce’ ‘BREAKTHROUGH’: EU leaders have reached a “breakthrough” on climate issues that “increases the likelihood” that the bloc will be able to sign off on its 2040 climate goal before COP30 in […]

The amount of forest lost around the world has reduced by millions of hectares each year in recent decades, but countries are still off track to meet “important” deforestation targets.  These are the findings of the Global Forest Resources Assessment – a major new report from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization – which says […]

Cutting emissions in line with the 1.5C warming limit, rather than following current climate policies, could curb long-term sea level rise by 64cm, a new study says. The research, published in Nature Climate Change, projects how much sea level rise will be unavoidable – or “locked in” – by the year 2300, due to emissions […]

  Corporate climate disclosure rules are under development in several jurisdictions, with California and the European Union (EU) leading the way. A controversial and unresolved matter in this area is the inclusion and measurement of Scope 3 emissions—i.e., indirect emissions from a company’s supply chain. This blog post—the second in a set of two exploring […]

Prof Penny Endersby has been chief executive of the UK Met Office since December 2018. She took the reins at the UK’s climate and weather service after more than two decades working in the science and technology department of the Ministry of Defence.  Endersby has led the Met Office during a critical period which has […]

Only around a third of the latest country climate pledges submitted to the UN express support for the “transition away from fossil fuels”, according to Carbon Brief analysis. Several countries even have used their 2035 climate plans to commit to increasing the production or use of fossil fuels, predominately gas, the analysis finds. The first […]

We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight. This is an online version of Carbon Brief’s fortnightly Cropped email newsletter. Subscribe for free here. Key developments Deforestation dropping, but not fast enough LOSING FOREST: The world lost almost 11m hectares of forest each […]