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...

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

Bizarre to be (incorrectly) referenced in the federal report supporting the EPA's proposal to revoke the scientific finding that underpins the government’s legal authority to combat climate change www.energy.gov/sites/defaul... (More on that story here: www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/...)

we need lots more music about climate change that doesn’t suck

NEW – ICJ: What the world court’s landmark opinion means for climate change | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org 💬 w/ comment from Danilo B. Garrido Alves, Joy Reyes, Prof Viñuales, Dr Maria Antonia Tigre, Harj Narulla, Dr Bill Hare Read here:

53/ The Court continues with its no-nonsense analysis by rejecting arguments advanced by historic polluters regarding the impossibility of determining accountability in the context of a plurality of contributors and victims.

52/🚨The Court then delivers a powerful statement: failure of a state to take appropriate action to regulate fossil fuel consumption, the granting of fossil fuel licences, fossil fuel subsidies may constitute an internationally wrongful act which is attributable to that state

NEW – Analysis: China’s clean-energy exports in 2024 alone will cut overseas CO2 by 1% | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/V7BVSsL

NEW – Mapped: 16 times extreme weather drove higher food prices since 2022 | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/2wjOqqM

On Wednesday, Reform's Richard Tice wrote to energy companies saying the party would "seek to strike down" existing subsidies for renewables if it takes power. 24 hours later he was on the BBC suggesting people had "misread" the letter and "a legally binding contract is a legally binding contract".

After years of campaigning, members of "Woodsbury Locals Say NO To Solar" breathe a sigh of relief as they gaze over their pristine, panel-free fields. They won. The solar developers won't turn this village into a sea of glass. On the horizon, a convoy of lorries full of uranium rumbles into view.

Reform mayor Andrea Jenkyns tells Times Radio that she doesn’t believe climate change exists, and that it’s just a “racket” for some people to make money. If Reform win the next election, the UK could become a very different place quite quickly.

NEW – The Carbon Brief Interview: UK climate envoy Rachel Kyte (‪ @rkyte365.bsky.social ‬) | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org @leohickman.carbonbrief.org Full interview ➡️ buff.ly/7DMZJk8

Just look at this school - called "The Frog" (!) in the Netherlands. That green facade generates electricity. Those are solar panels! (Photo: Solarix.)

Has renewable energy reduced electricity prices? As I discuss over at The Climate Brink, empirical evidence over the past 24 years in the US points to yes: www.theclimatebrink.... Here is the change in non-hydro utility scale renewables and electricity prices for each state.

*small voice* Brontë country is just farmland though

maybe this is wishcasting but it'd be pretty funny if continued global demand combined with ending US subsidies killed the horrible american Huge Expensive EV while allowing smaller, cheaper EVs to thrive

NEW – Media reaction: The 2025 Texas floods and the role of climate change ✍️ @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️ www.carbonbrief.org/media-reacti...

MEDIA STUDIES: How the Times bungled its coverage of the OBR report on climate change & UK govt debt Yesterday's newspaper reported a major shift: "The OBR now thinks…net-zero will have a far more damaging impact on borrowing…" In fact, the OBR had said the opposite! 1/6

NEW – Experts: Which climate tipping point is the most concerning? | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/LkitgK7

About 1500 of the approx. 2300 people that will have lost their lives across 12 European cities last week would still live, if it wasn't for our burning of oil, coal and gas. If we care about the right to life, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

In this issue: 🌎 Trump “megabill” gutting tax support for clean energy was passed by Congress 🌎 A deadly, record-breaking heatwave gripped Europe 🌎 Key dates for next week and pick of the job vacancies

NEW – Chart: Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ blows US emissions goal by 7bn tonnes | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/l700teP