Recommended read: A comment piece in Climate Home News explored why women’s leadership is “central” to unlocking the global phaseout of fossil fuels.

Recommended read: The Cypress Climate Advisory group released a “NDC benchmarker” that monitors countries’ emissions against their nationally determined contributions (NDC) under the Paris Agreement.

DeBriefed: War and oil | Why gas drives electricity prices | Japan’s ‘vulnerability’ to Iran crisis ✍️ Written by @jjgoodman.bsky.social 📝 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/WkQUnQk Subscribe to our newsletters ➡️ buff.ly/J6uB9Kc

NEW: Why does gas set the price of electricity – and is there an alternative? Make yourself a tea (or grab a beer??) and enjoy my Friday longread on marginal pricing, ideas for market reform – & how to break the link btwn gas & power prices for good www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/8

The US-Israel attacks on Iran have killed more than 1,000 people and sent energy markets scrambling. The @carbonbrief.org team tackles the war’s impact on energy supplies and gas and oil prices, as well as what the war could mean for the world’s renewable energy transition:

NEW – Q&A: Why does gas set the price of electricity – and is there an alternative? | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/2bxlYGb

NEW – Q&A: How climate change and war threaten Iran’s water supplies | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @giulianaviglione.bsky.social @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/rcjFJKy

UPDATED – Q&A: What does the Iran war mean for the energy transition and climate action? ✍️ @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️

Daily Briefing: ‘Largest-ever’ oil disruption | Induction stove demand | EU carbon rules ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/LCoX7QA ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

NEW: More North Sea drilling would do far less to reduce the UK's reliance on volatile gas imports than the continued expansion of renewables and clean tech Full analysis by me, @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social and @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org ⬇️ www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why...

Analysis: Why clean energy will cut UK gas imports by (much) more than North Sea drilling The latest debate over new licenses has been lacking one key ingredient: Perspective Here's our take in chart form – and I'm happy to debate the numbers www.carbonbrief.org/...

Daily Briefing: 400m barrels of oil ‘released’ | India to ‘cut fuel needs’ | ‘Hot metro’ science ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/sEO98oX ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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NEW – Analysis: Why clean energy will cut UK gas imports by more than North Sea drilling | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/7B0fLPB

🌽 New Cropped just dropped 🌽 Cropped: Iran water worries | Seabed-mining treaty progress | Women farmers and climate change ✍️ @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @yaninequiroz.bsky.social Subscribe to our newsletters ➡️ buff.ly/k84LIFK Read here ⬇️

UPDATED – Mapped: How extreme weather is destroying crops around the world ✍️ @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org 🎨 @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/oTKjd5n

A nicely timed new report from the CCC...

Daily Briefing: IEA moots oil release | Extreme heat ‘affects 1-in-3’ | China’s oil imports ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/FCoXopL ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

NEW – CCC: Net-zero will protect UK from fossil-fuel price shocks | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/Tp2CX2o

NEW – Q&A: What does the Iran war mean for the energy transition and climate action? ✍️ @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️

Daily Briefing: G7 to discuss oil | ‘Exceptional’ wetness | Europe’s ‘déjà vu’ ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/ULPI6iq ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

Drought and heatwaves occurring together (compound events) have “surged” across the world since the early 2000s, a new study shows. This increase is predominantly driven by events that start with a heatwave. Read more 🔽

Factcheck: North Sea gas is not ‘four times cleaner’ than LNG imports | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org #CBarchive Read here: buff.ly/IoMIeUt

Daily Briefing: Oil ‘surges’ past $100 | Russian oil in demand | Warming rate ‘doubles’ ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/Dn9IbVv ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

Recommended watch: A new film, narrated by actor Michael Sheen and titled You Told Us To Talk About the Weather, aimed to promote conversation about climate change with a blend of “poetry, folk horror and climate storytelling”.

Recommended read: Ten years on from the murder of Indigenous environmental justice advocate Berta Cáceres, Drilled asked why Honduras is still so dangerous for environmental activists.

Recommended read: The Guardian has published a “visual guide” with charts and videos showing how the “escalating Iran conflict is driving up oil and gas prices”.

NEW – Heatwaves driving recent ‘surge’ in compound drought and heat extremes ✍️ @yaninequiroz.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/l0LE1CB

DeBriefed: Iran energy crisis | China climate plan | Bristol’s ‘pioneering’ wind turbine ✍️ Written by @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social 📝 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/6f7S6bX Subscribe to our newsletters ➡️ buff.ly/J6uB9Kc

🎉 Great news: the UK’s emissions fell to their lowest level in 150 years last year, with coal use roughly halving. 𖣘 We also saw record-breaking generation from renewable sources, especially wind & solar. 👉 Read @carbonbrief.org's analysis: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

NEW – Q&A: What does China’s 15th ‘five-year plan’ mean for climate change? ✍️ By @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org 💬 With comment from @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social, Li Shuo, Li Zheng, Yao Zhe, Ma Jun, Pan Jiahua, Joseph Dellatte, Rebecca Nadin Read here ➡️ bit.ly/474QNPx

NEW – Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, study says ✍️ @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet. All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Daily Briefing: EU 90% target approved | Power prices ‘swing wildly’ | UK coal drop ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/VFZWZ26 ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

NEW – Analysis: UK emissions fall 2.4% in 2025 as coal hits 400-year low ✍️ @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org and Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/Ifmz1Eo

NEW – Q&A: What the EU’s new industry and ‘Made in Europe’ rules mean for climate action ✍️ @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️

China Briefing: New five-year climate goals revealed at ‘two sessions’ meeting ✍️ @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️ buff.ly/a9lb7sR

Daily Briefing: China sets out new climate plan | ‘Buy EU’ | Sea level rise ‘underestimated’ ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/AD8KrMv ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

The Carbon Brief Profile: Iran | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social #CBarchive Read here: bit.ly/33ERpKP

Cropped is Carbon Brief’s fortnightly newsletter that provides a digest of all the key developments from the fraught, yet fascinating intersection between food systems 🐄 , land use 🌽, nature 🌿 and climate change. Sign up here for free ⬇️ subscribe.carbonbrief.org

Daily Briefing: Net-zero ‘answer’ to energy crisis | ‘High-voltage’ in China | ‘Frivolous desires of ultra-rich’ ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/SUYIxG3 ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

Daily Briefing: Gas prices ‘surge’ | UK bills ‘could hit £2,500’ | El Niño’s return ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/qzak4z4 ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

NEW – Analysis: Half of nations meet UN deadline for nature-loss reporting | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/T18a3AS

Daily Briefing: Oil surges on Middle-East turmoil | China’s CO2 drop | Renewables ‘defy Trump’ ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/8Y3FkTv ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

Recommended read: Despite a “political mood [that] has darkened”, there is “more green stuff being installed than ever”, said New York Times columnist @dwallacewells.bsky.social

Recommended read: The US is becoming a “petrostate” that will be “sicker and poorer”, wrote Financial Times associate editor Rana Forohaar.

DeBriefed: Trump’s fossil-fuel talk | Modi-Lula rare-earth pact | Is there a UK ‘greenlash’? ✍️ Written by @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org 📝 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/B0MQfYB Subscribe to our newsletters ➡️ buff.ly/J6uB9Kc

NEW – Analysis: Constituency of Reform’s climate-sceptic Richard Tice gets £55m flood funding | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/a5WoNj9

Daily Briefing: Green byelection win | US carbon-levy ‘bullying’ | Italy attacks EUETS ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/1x7IRVy ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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