Something extraordinary – yet predictable – has happened over recent days on Facebook. Fake accounts that usually post anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim content generated using AI to fuel division and hate in UK are now pushing out AI-gen content asking: "Should the UK produce its own fuel again?"

DeBriefed | Earth’s first ‘tipping point’; Climate adviser interview; How warming affects children’s health ✍️ Written by @emmahancox.carbonbrief.org 💻 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/HfMg7ld Sign up to DeBriefed ➡️ subscribe.carbonbrief.org

Great stuff fro the CB team! ☀️ 🔗 interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...

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".

What a (some might say cynical) journey the latest chairman of Reform UK has been on when it comes to his denial of climate change! In 2017, he tweeted a link to this article in Time... time.com/4931586/irma...

Pretty sickened by UK's Supreme Court 🤮 So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇

📢ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 3.6% in 2024 to lowest since 1872 🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London 🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn 🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power 📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84% www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/9

Just published – COP16: Key outcomes agreed at the resumed UN biodiversity conference in Rome ✍️ @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @yaninequiroz.bsky.social @giulianaviglione.bsky.social Read here ➜ buff.ly/3CYAWpS

Welcome back, beavers 🦫 After being hunted to extinction in the UK, beavers are returning across the country. Today, the UK government announced its commitment to reintroducing beavers into the wild. 📖 buff.ly/4ihfGdM

🦅🦦🐀🪵🤎 Volunteers have helped bring back kestrels, weasels, shrews, wood mice and other small mammals to Hackney Marshes following the erosion of River Lea habitats in recent years. www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2025/02/19/j...

NEW – The Carbon Brief Profile: Germany | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social 🎨 @jjgoodman.bsky.social Read here ➡️ https://buff.ly/430ptAx

@carbonbrief.org is looking for a data analyst, helping us analyse climate and energy data to find new stories and bring fresh numbers to the conversation. Apply here: www.carbonbrief.org/vacancy-data-analyst #vacancy #hiring #jobs

Essential every Friday catch up.

Fardowsa is a journalist living in Dadaab refugee camp who works to shed light on the stories of her fellow refugees and the climate crisis. In an interview with ‪@emmahancox.carbonbrief.org‬, she shares the struggles facing Dadaab’s refugees and concerns on how global politics will impact them ⬇️

New runways at London airports would result in cumulative emissions of around 92m tonnes of extra CO2e by 2050, if the number of flights increases in line with their operating company targets. Carbon Brief’s analysis covered by Anushka Asthana on @itvpeston.bsky.social ➡️ buff.ly/3WJ9Ut1

This week's climate newsletter from CB: bit.ly/4glefJN For this edition's 'spotlight', I spoke to a young female journalist from Kenya’s Dadaab refugee complex. Via the camp's radio station, Fardowsa is documenting how, more and more, people are arriving in her community because of climate change.

Reflecting on these words today: UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell: 'climate finance is not charity,' 'If two-thirds of the world’s nations cannot afford to cut emissions, every nation pays the price.' Source: ENB COP29 Summary report enb.iisd.org/baku-un-clim...

Everything you need to know about the #COP29 climate summit. What went down, the official outcomes, and detail about specific topics. An excellent team effort from my Carbon Brief colleagues! Follow @carbonbrief.org for more on COP and climate change in the aftermath over the next few weeks.

People have been loving Carbon Brief's webinars – so here's another one! If you want to understand the outcome of #COP29 (once it ends) tune in to my expert colleagues on Monday, who have been in attendance and will explain what went down and answer your questions ⬇️ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Very honoured to be the majestic @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social’s first book on here. My debut, a celebration of the genius imaginative potential of real human beings and all of the beautiful music they made, arrives on shelves in March next year 👀

My pal wrote a book about music and it's gonna be excellent. Pre-order 'Songs in the Key of MP3: The New Icons of the Internet Age' for a March release 🎧⬇️

A very, very useful thread on all of the little-known, handy features Bluesky has 👇

If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up. If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds

Thrilled to see the Guardian's COP29 live-blog featuring Carbon Brief's "absolutely essential" Daily Briefing newsletter, which, this morning, was researched and written - all 5,000+ words of it! - by @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org You can sign up here... www.carbonbrief.org/newsletter-s...

You can follow all of my Carbon Brief colleagues using this list: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Another fun (and insanely difficult) annual climate quiz - Carbon Brief's 10th in a row! 🎉 Thanks to everyone who came along and brought the pub quiz vibes 👌

LIVE! Join Carbon Brief's webinar on what to watch out for at 🇨🇴COP16. ▶️ Via the link in your email if you have registered, where you can ask live questions ▶️ Via the livestream: buff.ly/3YwYmuf

DeBriefed is an essential weekly newsletter guiding you through the key climate developments from the past week. Today's edition – written by me! Read here: bit.ly/3MMGBAS Subscribe here: subscribepage.io/carbonbrief Excited to have written my first piece for Carbon Brief!