#COP30 AGENDA FIGHT: Battle looms over which issues to discuss at COP30 (an "agenda fight") Proposed late additions to agenda: * trade * finance * deforestation * ambition * reporting Hence, now on 4th version of agenda (!) This must be resolved before negotiations begin 🧵 1/

NEW – Interactive: Who wants what at the COP30 climate change summit | @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️

NEW – COP30: What does the ‘Baku to Belém roadmap’ mean for climate finance? | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social w/ comment from @jalokaje.bsky.social Sarah Colenbrander @rebeccathissen.bsky.social Rebecca Newsom Read here: buff.ly/X0lKbny

Important new research published last month in Nature Sustainability shows that the oil and gas industry has only a 1.42% share of global renewable energy. Only 20% of the 250 largest oil and gas companies operate any renewable energy projects. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #COP30

NEW – Q&A: The UK government’s ‘carbon budget delivery plan’ for 2035 | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/XOxb3EL

Millions of pounds of UK taxpayer money was supposed to help developing countries deal with the climate crisis – instead, where did it go? To billionaire-owned luxury carmakers, a company building new gas-fired power, and telecoms giants

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Excuse me ” In a US buffeted by extreme weather, disaster spending is becoming a key driver of the economy.” www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Horrific testimony by Greta Thunberg www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

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NEW – IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @iea.org Read here: buff.ly/moV7Tge

Anyone who is in Budapest for the @journalismarena.eu Climate Arena Conference, I will be helping to run a session on how to investigate climate finance tomorrow at 14:30. Come and check it out!

Homeless people were protected from hot weather on a record number of occasions in 2025 as climate change led to hottest summer ever.

Kemi Badenoch has been saying a lot of stuff that isn't true recently. We've taken a look through some of the things she and her Conservative colleagues have been saying as they pledge to “repeal” the Climate Change Act. ➡️ www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

NEW – Factcheck: What the Climate Change Act does – and does not – mean for the UK | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/c1tdbmJ

FACTCHECK: What the Climate Change Act actually means for the UK – and what is a load of old nonsense Really enjoyed putting this together with colleagues, inc learning new things about the fascinating backstory to the Act Feat. OG authors of the Act & more www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

NEW:🌎Half of global emissions covered by 2035 climate pledges after UN summit in New York🌎 China, Russia, Turkey and 8 other nations announced new pledges at the UN climate summit But two-thirds of countries are still to announce their new NDCs Analysis⬇️ www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-hal...

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 ANALYSIS – I sent FOI requests to 93 local authorities across England and Wales, focusing on areas with significant numbers of people sleeping rough. I wanted to find out how councils are protecting rough sleepers in their communities from extreme heat. www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-use...

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

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

Guyana found huge oil reserves 10 years ago, so why are most people still poor? - With a ‘one-sided’ deal handing vast profits to the world’s top oil firms, many Guyanese ask when the energy bonanza will benefit them By Bert Wilkinson in Georgetown www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

💶 International support for climate finance is shrinking. How can journalists navigate this changing landscape? This #ClimateArena session with @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social of @carbonbrief.org and Stefan Wehrmeyer of @fragdenstaat.de will cover: [1/3]👇

NEW: IEA reiterates ‘no new oil and gas needed’ if global warming is limited to 1.5C (but this time, it only says so quietly) 🧵quick thread www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/6

NEW – AI: Five charts that put data-centre energy use – and emissions – into context | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/vJ5juMa

NEW – Analysis: UK foreign aid for nature hits £800m record due to cash for carbon credits | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/Ug7Znf9

“I think Ed Miliband is the most dangerous man in Britain”, says Claire Coutinho. Wow! That's some statement to make on the weekend a racist thug led a big march in London. Of course, the there's not a word in the interview on what to do about climate change... www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar power ✍️ @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org 🎨 @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org @jjgoodman.bsky.social Tom Pearson Read here: buff.ly/47kIjiZ

icymi they opened the door to making all wind farms illegal happy thursday

Thank you @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social for the reminder that golf courses should be forcibly seized by the government and converted to solar farms interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...

Very proud this week to be publishing this terrific essay by @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social on the long and complex history of far right involvement in the British countryside in this week's @the-breakdown.bsky.social newsletter

Are you or your loved ones worried about solar farms? Have you heard scary things about solar panels turning the countryside into an industrial hellscape? Fear not! We at Carbon Brief have just published the definitive article debunking solar myths ⬇️ interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...

NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️ x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths. x8 in Zambia x7 in Botswana x6 in Sudan x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia 🧵

In-depth Q&A: What is ‘climate justice’? | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org #CBarchive Read here: j.mp/3jxnFaC

A huge amount of new generating capacity is expected in the US this year, and about half of that is solar, with a small fraction of natural gas (no coal). This would be the highest ever annual addition to US capacity (prev. peak before graph starts is mid-70s at ~40GW). www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

Critics say the UN climate process needs a major overhaul due to slow progress on emission cuts, fossil fuel obsolescence, and the delivery of promised climate funding. 16 leading experts share how they think COPs could be reformed. By @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social...

NEW – Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @leohickman.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/AvcB7Aw

This tracks with what we found in Bristol a few years back - see this geo-specific example from Billy Stockwell about how #heatwaves affect those in high rises, particularly looking at eg Easton and Lawrence Hill: thebristolcable.org/2022/08/is-b... #ClimateEmergency

NEW ANALYSIS - English neighbourhoods that are home to the most minority-ethnic people are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat than the least diverse areas. Heatwaves are getting more severe – but the effects of rising temperatures are not being felt equally... ➡️ buff.ly/boWI6M1

China is building 95 gigawatts of new coal power plants. That doesn't mean coal power use will definitely rise. Qi Qin and @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social explain why in their new piece for @carbonbrief.org Read more: www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-w...

NEW ANALYSIS - English neighbourhoods that are home to the most minority-ethnic people are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat than the least diverse areas. Heatwaves are getting more severe – but the effects of rising temperatures are not being felt equally... ➡️ buff.ly/boWI6M1

NEW – Analysis: England’s most ethnically diverse areas are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @vernerviisas.bsky.social w/ comment from @profangelhsu.bsky.social @charleshsimpson.bsky.social Emma Howard Boyd @chlobrim.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/boWI6M1

It has been a decade since the Paris Agreement. And with COP30 in Brazil on the horizon, there have been calls for major reform at the UN climate talks. We asked 16 experts - including former negotiators and COP veterans - what they think should change at these events. ➡️ buff.ly/JWL8AQN

NEW – COP experts: How could the UN climate talks be reformed? | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @arunacsekhar.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/JWL8AQN

What is the word to describe the feeling you get when you write about how young(ish) women who are regularly exposed to climate information are more likely to feel climate anxiety... Really enjoyed speaking to researchers for this @carbonbrief.org explainer www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-wh...

great reporting from @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org on faltering efforts to raise cash for biodiversity from the private sector

"What is an acceptable death toll that justifies getting to work two minutes faster? That's what people who want to get rid of it need to answer." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

NEW – Endangered angelshark faces ‘inhospitable’ breeding sites as ocean warms | Ushika Kidd Read here: buff.ly/ykOkxdF