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Animation: The countries with the largest cumulative CO2 emissions since 1750
Ranking as of the start of 2019:
1) US – 397GtCO2
2) CN – 214Gt
3) fmr USSR – 180
4) DE – 90
5) UK – 77
6) JP – 58
7) IN – 51
8) FR – 37
9) CA – 32
10) PL – 27
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Richest people in UK ‘use more energy flying’ than poorest do overall |
@Josh_Gabbatiss
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@baltrusz
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NEW | Analysis: Which countries are historically responsible for climate change? |
@DrSimEvans
Cumulative fossil fuel & land emissions 1850-2021
🇺🇸 US 509GtCO2
🇨🇳 CN 284
🇷🇺 RU 172
🇧🇷 BR 113
🇮🇩 ID 103
🇩🇪 DE 88
🇮🇳 IN 86
🇬🇧 UK 74
🇯🇵 JP 68
🇨🇦 CA 65
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NEW | Interactive: What is the climate impact of eating meat and dairy?
@daisydunnesci
@tomoprater
@joegoodman94
This is the first article in Carbon Brief’s week-long series on food and climate change…
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Recommended read: 'Big words, and little action': Greta Thunberg’s must-read letter to the world |
@GretaThunberg
@BritishVogue
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Interactive: What is the climate impact of eating meat and dairy? |
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#COP27
#archive
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Analysis: Which countries are historically responsible for climate change? |
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++BREAKING++
Great Britain has been running for more than a month – and counting – without burning coal to generate electricity.
With demand down nearly 20% due to
#coronavirus
, supply has been met by:
36% renewables
32% gas
22% nuclear
9% imports
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Several
#Arctic
locations recorded land surface temperatures hitting 45C on 19 June, according to initial data from the
@esa
satellite Sentinel-3.
Here is what you need to know... (THREAD 1/7)
#ImageOfTheDay
#ArcticHeatWave
#ClimateAction
#EUSpace
Many air 🌡️ records have recently been broken in
#Siberia
On 19 June Land Surface Temperature (LST) reached 45°C at several locations in the
#Arctic
Circle
Data retrieved by
#Sentinel3
🇪🇺🛰️
Check the 2019-2020 comparison ⬇️
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New data from
@CopernicusECMWF
shows that July 2019-June 2020 was tied as the warmest 12 months on record...
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NEW: For months, Carbon Brief has been investigating
#CarbonOffsets
Today, we publish a special series interrogating every aspect of this often murky practice
To start, here’s an in-depth Q&A on whether carbon offsets can help to tackle climate change
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Analysis: Which countries are historically responsible for climate change? |
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Animation: Mentions of "climate change" in UK media over past decade.
April 2019 at near-record levels due to coverage of
@ExtinctionR
protests,
@GretaThunberg
visit and
@BBCOne
Attenborough film.
Only surpassed - just - by Dec 2009 when COP15 summit took place in Copenhagen.
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++Breaking++
Great Britain has just gone a whole week without using coal to generate electricity |
@drsimevans
@tomoprater
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Factcheck: 21 misleading myths about electric vehicles |
@DrSimEvans
#CBarchive
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The UK government has announced plans to increase solar power capacity “up to five times” by 2035.
If built, solar farms would still only represent half the space taken up by golf courses.
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+++BREAKING+++
Great Britain has been running for a record TWO WEEKS without using coal to generate electricity – the first time this has happened since 1882.
The country’s grid has been coal-free for 45% of hours in 2019 so far.
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Interactive: What is the climate impact of eating meat and dairy? | Daisy Dunne Tom Prater Joe Goodman
#CBarchive
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NEW - Analysis: UK renewables generate more electricity than fossil fuels for first time |
@DrSimEvans
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How do
#emissions
from meat, dairy and other foods compare?
The climate impact of beef and lamb dwarfs that of other foods.
But producing
#beef
is more than twice as carbon intensive as producing lamb (
@_HannahRitchie
@OurWorldInData
).
Find out why ➡️
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Analysis: Which countries are historically responsible for climate change? |
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@tomoprater
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++THREAD++
At 9pm - for the first time in 12yrs - BBC One will broadcast a 60-min documentary about climate change presented by Sir David Attenborough.
It covers the science, impacts and potential solutions of climate change, all of which Carbon Brief has covered in depth...
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Analysis: Why scientists think 100% of global warming is due to humans |
@hausfath
@_rospearce
#archive
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+++BREAKING+++
Early this morning Great Britain's electricity system passed a new coal-free record of 18 days, 6 hours & 15 minutes.
With demand down 18% due to
#coronavirus
, supply has been met by:
37% renewables
32% gas
22% nuclear
9% imports
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Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA |
@drsimevans
@josh_gabbatiss
#CBarchive
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NEW – Revealed: How colonial rule radically shifts historical responsibility for climate change |
@DrSimEvans
@VernerViisas
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NEW – Analysis: Half the global population saw all-time record temperatures over past decade |
@hausfath
@tomoprater
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New fossil fuels ‘incompatible’ with 1.5C goal, comprehensive analysis finds |
@DrSimEvans
w/ comment from
@nataliejon_es
@IISD_news
@OlivierBvK
#COP27
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FACTCHECK | Some Conservative politicians are claiming solar farms are a ‘threat’ to UK farmland.
But what are the facts?
@Josh_Gabbatiss
@freyagraham_
@rtmcswee
@GAViglione
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NEW - Revealed: The 11 slides that finally convinced Boris Johnson about global warming |
@daisydunnesci
@Josh_Gabbatiss
@LeoHickman
@rtmcswee
@AyeshaTandon
@tomoprater
@joejgoodman
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With thanks again to
@jburnmurdoch
for making this code available for adaptation by others.
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Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA |
@drsimevans
@josh_gabbatiss
#CBarchive
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NEW | Analysis: The lack of diversity in climate-science research |
@ayeshatandon
Carbon Brief finds that women and researchers from the global south are under-represented in highly-cited climate-science research 🔬
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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions surged 4% in second half of 2020 |
@laurimyllyvirta
Read here ➡️
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Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA |
@drsimevans
@josh_gabbatiss
#CBarchive
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NEW - Exclusive: BBC issues internal guidance on how to report climate change |
@LeoHickman
@ed_hawkins
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Analysis: Why scientists think 100% of global warming is due to humans |
@hausfath
@_rospearce
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Factcheck: 21 misleading myths about electric vehicles |
@DrSimEvans
#CBarchive
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Renewables will be world’s top electricity source within three years,
@IEA
data reveals |
@DrSimEvans
#CBarchive
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Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA |
@drsimevans
@josh_gabbatiss
#CBarchive
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THREAD - Experts from the
#GlobalSouth
are often underrepresented in reporting 📰 on climate change.
To tackle this issue, Carbon Brief &
@risj_oxford
are launching the “Global South Climate Database”
#GSCD
.
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NEW: Carbon Brief has analysed offset use among the world's largest fossil-fuel, car and tech firms 🏭🚗🖥️
It reveals how two-thirds of the top 50 companies with net-zero targets have used offsets since 2020 - plus where they have bought them from
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Factcheck: 21 misleading myths about electric vehicles |
@DrSimEvans
#CBarchive
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Factcheck: 21 misleading myths about electric vehicles |
@DrSimEvans
#CBarchive
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Factcheck: 21 misleading myths about electric vehicles |
@DrSimEvans
#CBarchive
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NEW - Interactive: The impacts of climate change at 1.5C, 2C and beyond |
@_rospearce
@rtmcswee
@tomoprater
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NEW - Explainer: Nine ‘tipping points’ that could be triggered by climate change |
@rtmcswee
@_rospearce
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NEW - In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s sixth assessment on how to tackle climate change |
@aruna_sekhar
@daisydunnesci
@DrSimEvans
@Josh_Gabbatiss
@hausfath
@rtmcswee
@AyeshaTandon
@GAViglione
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Analysis: Why scientists think 100% of global warming is due to humans |
@hausfath
@_rospearce
#archive
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Renewables will be world’s top electricity source within three years,
@IEA
data reveals |
@DrSimEvans
#CBarchive
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To limit warming to 2C, emissions must fall quicker if they peak later |
@hausfath
@_rospearce
#archive
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Analysis: Why scientists think 100% of global warming is due to humans |
@hausfath
@_rospearce
#archive
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NEW - In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s sixth assessment report on climate science |
@DrSimEvans
@Josh_Gabbatiss
@hausfath
@rtmcswee
@AyeshaTandon
@GAViglione
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Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms
@IEA
|
@drsimevans
@josh_gabbatiss
#CBarchive
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CHART
China, Japan & South Korea have recently committed to reaching net-zero emissions.
That means two-thirds of the world’s coal use & nearly half its CO2 emissions are now covered by national or regional net-zero goals.
@DrSimEvans
analysis of data from BP & the World Bank.
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Analysis: Why scientists think 100% of global warming is due to humans |
@CarbonBrief
#archive
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Interactive: What is the climate impact of eating meat and dairy? | Daisy Dunne Tom Prater Joe Goodman
#CBarchive
Read here 👉
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Analysis: Record-low price for UK offshore wind is four times cheaper than gas |
@DrSimEvans
Read here:
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The debate around using farmland for solar often assumes the two are incompatible.
However, land can be optimised to produce both energy and food under a concept called “agrivoltaics”.
Crops can be planted among the panels or livestock can graze in this space.
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Renewables will be world’s top electricity source within three years,
@IEA
data reveals |
@DrSimEvans
#CBarchive
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Interactive: What is the climate impact of eating meat and dairy? |
@tomoprater
@joejgoodman
Read here:
#archive
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NEW - Analysis: Coronavirus has temporarily reduced China’s CO2 emissions by a quarter |
@laurimyllyvirta
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NEW - In-depth Q&A: The IPCC's sixth assessment on how climate change impacts the world |
@aruna_sekhar
@daisydunnesci
@Josh_Gabbatiss
@rtmcswee
@AyeshaTandon
@GAViglione
Read here:
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NEW - COP26: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Glasgow |
@DrSimEvans
@Josh_Gabbatiss
@rtmcswee
@aruna_sekhar
@AyeshaTandon
@GAViglione
@hausfath
@xiaoying_you
@joejgoodman
@sylviahayes98
#COP26
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NEW – State of the climate: 2024 now very likely to be warmest year on record |
@hausfath
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Analysis: Why scientists think 100% of global warming is due to humans |
@hausfath
@CarbonBrief
#archive
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NEW – Richest people in UK ‘use more energy flying’ than poorest do overall |
@Josh_Gabbatiss
w/ comment from
@baltrusz
@martiskainen
Read here:
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Interactive: What is the climate impact of eating meat and dairy? |
@daisydunnesci
@tomoprater
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NEW: Carbon Brief has scoured media and civil-society reports from the past five years to paint, for the first time, a global picture of the impacts of
#CarbonOffsets
More than 50 cases of carbon-offset projects causing harm have been mapped
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Analysis: How well have climate models projected global warming? |
@hausfath
#CBarchive
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NEW - Guest post: How ‘discourses of delay’ are used to slow climate action |
@lamb_wf
@jksteinberger
@giulio_mattioli
@MCC_Berlin
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NEW – What is
#LossAndDamage
? Who is responsible? Why is it crucial to global action on
#ClimateChange
?
These are all questions answered by Carbon Brief's new interactive Q&A on the climate issue that is critical to billions 🌎
➡️
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Analysis: Record-low price for UK offshore wind is nine times cheaper than gas |
@DrSimEvans
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Analysis: Which countries are historically responsible for climate change? |
@drsimevans
@tomoprater
#CBarchive
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IEA: Wind and solar capacity will overtake both gas and coal globally by 2024 |
@Josh_Gabbatiss
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Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA |
@DrSimEvans
@Josh_Gabbatiss
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