Feeding the 8.2 billion people who inhabit the planet depends on healthy soils. Yet, soil health has been declining over the years, with more than one-third of the world’s agricultural land now described by scientists as “degraded”. Furthermore, the world’s soils have lost 133bn tonnes of carbon since the advent of agriculture around 12,000 years […]

China’s surging electric vehicles (EVs) ownership – now exceeding 25.5m – is opening the door to a new technology that can help to enhance the flexibility of electricity supply.   EVs connected via “vehicle-to-grid” (V2G) technology can function as “batteries on wheels” that charge and discharge according to the needs of the wider electricity system.  The […]

Developing countries are receiving just a fraction of the international finance they need to prepare citizens and adapt infrastructure for escalating climate impacts. That is according to the latest adaptation gap report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), which calculates that developing nations will need more than $310bn annually between now and 2035 to prepare […]

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 […]