DeBriefed | UK political gap on climate widens; Fossil-fuelled Typhoon Ragasa; ‘Overshoot’ unknowns ✍️ Written by @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org 💻 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read today's edition ➡️ buff.ly/UoRb43h Sign up for Debriefed ➡️ buff.ly/aLTmtZN

NEW – Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/vmZWYtQ

Daily Briefing: Badenoch backlash | ‘Planetary health diet’ | Germany’s bid for fusion ➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/J4ZclOB ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

NEW – EAT-Lancet report: Three key takeaways on climate and diet change | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @yaninequiroz.bsky.social @giulianaviglione.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/8XCDGp6

Climate news from Latin America in our newsletter: Brazil’s forest fund delayed ahead of COP30 COP30 will have 1,240 volunteers Cuba’s capital, affected by floods after an intense drought 13 Argentinian provinces oppose a potential withdrawal of Argentina from the Paris Agreement read more 🔽

China Briefing | China’s new pledge; electricity demand slows; steel overcapacity ✍️ @wanyuansong.bsky.social Read here ➡️ buff.ly/iq11k89 Sign up to China Briefing ➡️ buff.ly/aLTmtZN

Yesterday CGS Research Director @rynacui.bsky.social discussed China's new #NDC during a @carbonbrief.org webinar. To learn more about how China and other countries can achieve climate goals, visit CGS's new Country Climate Ambition website: www.country-ambition.cgs.umd.edu

I was delighted to speak alongside some of the foremost experts on China's climate developments in a webinar on the country's new NDC targets. It's well worth a listen for anyone wondering how China can still be seen as a climate leader, despite the NDC's low-ball targets!

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Daily Briefing: UK to ‘speed up’ fracking ban | Pope hits out at deniers | Forest fund delay ➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/qwExxZ1 ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

NEW – Antarctic sea ice winter peak in 2025 is third smallest on record | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org Svetlana Onye w/ comment from @zacklabe.com Read here: buff.ly/TBQ7aL8

Wherever you live on the planet, 🇨🇳China’s efforts to tackle climate change affect us all. Carbon Brief’s award-winning China Briefing newsletter rounds up all the need-to-know information about climate and energy in China from the past 14 days. Sign up for free 🔽 subscribe.carbonbrief.org

Daily Briefing: Reform UK ‘betray’ young on climate | COP31 ‘split’ | India floods ➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/c5wSpBh ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

The Carbon Brief Interview: ClientEarth CEO Laura Clarke | @leohickman.carbonbrief.org @lauraclarkece.bsky.social @clientearth.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/McwwHf2

NEW Analysis by @carbonbrief.org reveals there's been record 87 hours this year where national electricity demand was fully covered by clean sources It is a sign of a rapidly-transforming energy system. But there's still a "very long way" to 2030 clean power goal www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Thank you to everyone who joined our webinar on China’s new climate pledge🎙️ Thanks also to our panelists: Li Shuo @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social @rynacui.bsky.social @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org If you missed the webinar, you can watch it here ⬇️ buff.ly/zUSLhUp

Daily Briefing: Trump’s coal bung | Miliband fights back | Bualoi kills 19 ➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/22YsgqS ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

NEW – Analysis: Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/9QmKaqu

🔴 WE ARE LIVE! 🎙️ Join Carbon Brief's webinar on China’s new climate goals Where to watch: ▶️ Via the link in your email if you have registered ▶️ Via the livestream: buff.ly/b0mwgEN

Daily Briefing: Europe’s extreme weather bill | Chinese solar dims | Germany’s climate security risk ➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/XGwUXul ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

Later today Carbon Brief will be hosting a free webinar in which experts will discuss China’s first-ever pledge to cut its emissions 🎙️ Sign up here ➡️ buff.ly/lw5cBdZ

Recommended read: For @nytimes.com, the @asiapolicy.asiasociety.org's Li Shuo wrote that China was “the adult in the room on climate now”, despite its “modest” new pledge.

Recommended listen: The @drilledmedia.bsky.social podcast talked to a sociologist and a political scientist about “the intersection between the rise of rightwing populism and increasing resistance to acting on climate”.

🎙️Register for Carbon Brief’s free webinar on China’s new climate goals, taking place on Monday 29 September at 15:00 (BST) Sign up here ➡️ buff.ly/lw5cBdZ

Recommended read: A feature in @wsj.com said that, as Trump “doubles down on fossil fuels”, the US is “forfeiting the clean-energy race to China”. 📝 @daviduberti.bsky.social Ed Ballard, Brian Spegele Read here ⬇️ www.wsj.com/economy/glob...

What’s happened this week in climate change? 🌎 DeBriefed | China leads new climate pledges; Trump calls warming a ‘con job’; What comes next ✍️ Written by @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org 💻 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/AUXjYIb Sign up ➡️ buff.ly/3kFciAO

CGS Research Director Ryna Cui will discuss China's #NDC on a @carbonbrief.org webinar next Monday. To track the performance of countries in meeting their NDC goals, visit CGS's new Country Climate Ambition website: www.country-ambition.cgs.umd.edu

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

NEW – Analysis: Half of global emissions covered by 2035 climate pledges after UN summit in New York | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/gV0HmBt

Really thrilled to see that @carbonbrief.org's @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org has been shortlisted in the "Environmental Journalism National" category at this year's prestigious Society of Editors awards! Lil' CB up against big-gun outlets such as BBC, Sunday Times, Mirror, Guardian and i newspaper...

Daily Briefing: ‘Peak oil’ delay | China pledge ‘falls short’ | Warming intensified Ragasa ➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/kA0mHhS ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Latin American climate news in our newsletter 🌎: Mexico proposes to cut its budget for climate mitigation and adaptation Construction workers ended their strike in Belém Colombia’s government launched a programme to substitute energy subsidies for solar panels in certain households and more 🔽

NEW: Detailed Q&A on China's 2035 climate goals, by me and Anika Patel – with thanks to Lauri Myllyvirta/CREA for numbers: www.carbonbrief.org/... We also have a FREE WEBINAR on Monday 3pm BST to discuss it all with Lauri, Li Shuo and Ryna Cui. Sign up: us02web.zoom.us/webi...

NEW – Q&A: What does China’s new Paris Agreement pledge mean for climate action? | @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/WI735tD

🎙️Carbon Brief is hosting a free webinar in which experts will discuss China’s first-ever pledge to cut its emissions 🗓️ When? Monday 29 September at 15:00 (BST) Register here ➡️ buff.ly/lw5cBdZ

NEW: China's president Xi Jinping unexpectedly joins the UN climate summit, by video, to offer his nation's 2035 climate pledge * Cut GHGs to 7-10% below peak by 2035, "striving to do better" * Raise non-fossil share of energy to at least 30% * Boost wind/solar to 3,600GW

Daily Briefing: China’s new climate pledge | Newsom ‘blasts Trump’ | Starmer ‘no plans’ for COP30 ➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/gBp2gt9 ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

NEW – Revealed: Use of heat ‘emergencies’ for rough sleepers hits record in England and Wales | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/w0JNUlv

🌽 New Cropped just dropped 🌽 Cropped | High Seas Treaty milestone; ‘Erratic’ water cycle; Family food at COP30 ✍️ @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @yaninequiroz.bsky.social Read here ➡️ buff.ly/XN3P1lp Sign up to Cropped here ➡️ buff.ly/t7Qcc9p

Today's @carbonbrief.org Daily Briefing factchecks the false climate claims in Donald Trump's tirade to the UN www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/...

Daily Briefing: Trump’s ‘con job’ | China ‘could peak in 2028’ | Brazil’s carbon market push ➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/zpbGCfB ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

Interested in the intersection between food systems, land use, nature and climate change? 🌿 Hear from our team of global journalists every fortnight on the context behind headlines, interesting new reads and more. Sign up to our newsletter Cropped ⬇️ subscribe.carbonbrief.org

Earlier this month, I interviewed ClientEarth's @lauraclarkece.bsky.social We discussed a wide range of things from Slapp suits and 'lawfare' though to the Pitcairn Island and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour...

Daily Briefing: Climate plans ‘will fall short’ | Trump wind halt reversed | Renewable investment grows ➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/SX2pJcl ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

NEW – Guest post: Fungal infections are adapting to climate change – and threatening public health | Sumi Robson @wellcometrust.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/3svoJiw

NEW – The Carbon Brief Interview: ClientEarth CEO Laura Clarke | @leohickman.carbonbrief.org @lauraclarkece.bsky.social @clientearth.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/McwwHf2

Analysis: China’s emissions have now caused more global warming than EU | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org @vernerviisas.bsky.social #CBarchive Read here: buff.ly/3OMo0Fx

Daily Briefing: 1.5C goal ‘collapsing’ risk | Ocean treaty ‘into force’ | Gatwick’s second runway ➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/aR2EXjy ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

Recommended watch: A @reuters.com video showed how New York is turning food scraps into nutrient-rich soil, dubbed “black gold”.