Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing. China Briefing handpicks and explains the most important climate... The post China Briefing 3 October 2024: New coal guideline; Less oil consumption; ‘Green’ hydrogen appeared first on Carbon Brief ..read more

Solar geoengineering has been suggested as a temporary measure to buy time for the emissions... The post Guest post: How solar geoengineering could disrupt wind and solar power appeared first on Carbon Brief ..read more

The UK will miss the UN’s deadline to publish a new national plan for how... The post UK misses deadline to submit nature pledge ahead of UN COP16 biodiversity summit appeared first on Carbon Brief ..read more

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate... The post DeBriefed 27 September 2024: UN ‘pact for the future’; UK turns its back on coal power; River ‘rights’ appeared first on Carbon Brief ..read more

The UK’s last coal-fired power plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, will close this month, ending a... The post Q&A: How the UK became the first G7 country to phase out coal power appeared first on Carbon Brief ..read more

The UK will need to almost double the climate finance it gives for nature conservation... The post Analysis: UK must spend £1.7bn more on nature by 2026 to meet climate-finance goal appeared first on Carbon Brief ..read more

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s Cropped. We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection... The post Cropped 25 September 2024: Biodiversity loss ‘worse than terrorism’; Human-polar bear conflict; Australia’s ‘zombie’ forestry appeared first on Carbon Brief ..read more

新数据显示，继过去几年的低迷之后，2023年中国对非洲可再生能源项目的投资出现反弹。 中国和非洲之间的气候合作是中非合作论坛的一个重点议题。论坛每三年举行一次。本次峰会于9月6日闭幕，有数十位领导人齐聚北京。 上微信关注《碳简报》 上届中非合作论坛于2021年举行，论坛发表了一项具有里程碑意义的宣言，将气候合作“定位为”未来合作的“重要支柱”。同年，中国政府宣布停止为煤电项目提供资金。 随之而来的是对能源项目的政策性银行贷款出现暂停，这引发了人们对中国在非洲能源贷款前景的担忧。然而，波士顿大学全球发展政策中心（Boston University Global Development Policy Center）的最新数据显示，随着银行调整战略，以遵循投资低碳能源和“小而美”项目的要求，这种暂停只是一种重置。 本文分析了这一转变，并探讨了中国为非洲未来可再生能源建设提供融资所面临的挑战。 “既有”利益 中国一直是非洲的能源项目，尤其是化石燃料项目的重要融资方。非洲约75%的电力来自化石燃料，尽管其能源相关的碳排放量占全球总排放量的不到3%，电气化率也是所有有人居住的大洲中最低的。 过去，中国的大部分融资都是由中国两家政策性银行——中国进出口银行和国家开发银行——支持推动的，而且主要针对燃煤电厂。 这两家银行在非洲各地发放了1820 ..read more

Adam McKay is the Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director behind hit movies such as Anchorman:... The post The Carbon Brief Interview: Adam McKay appeared first on Carbon Brief ..read more

China’s national emissions trading scheme (ETS) is already the world’s biggest carbon market.  Earlier this... The post Explainer: China’s carbon market to cover steel, aluminium and cement in 2024 appeared first on Carbon Brief ..read more