Nov 13, 2024 · Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels and cement will rise around 0.8% in 2024, reaching a record 37.4bn tonnes of CO2 (GtCO2), according to the 2024 Global Carbon Budget report by the Global Carbon Project.. This is 0.4GtCO2 higher than the previous record, set in 2023.

Nov 24, 2024 · Following the end of COP29, Carbon Brief ran a webinar to answer questions from the audience about the key outcomes from the summit.. The summit’s first day also saw the presidency land in a lengthy fight over what should be on COP’s official agenda.. The fight reflected the key battlelines at the summit: a new climate finance goal; and how, where – or even whether – to carry forward ...

Jan 2, 2025 · Several large new offshore windfarms are under construction and due to open in 2025 or 2026. These include Dogger Bank A, a 1.2GW development in the North Sea due to open next year, as are the 0.9GW Moray West and 0.5GW Neart na Goithe windfarms off Scotland.. In 2026, these projects are due to be followed by the 1.2GW Dogger Bank B and 1.4GW Sofia windfarms, also in the mid-North Sea region.

Nov 7, 2024 · The Republican candidate Donald Trump has been elected as the 47th US president, beating his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris in a “historic comeback”. In response, climate scientists, researchers and experts have expressed concern about his election’s impact on efforts to tackle climate change.. During his first term in 2017-2021, Trump – a climate sceptic – rolled back climate ...

Nov 7, 2024 · Temperatures for each month from 1940 to 2024 from Copernicus/ECMWF ERA5.Anomalies plotted with respect to a 1850-1900 baseline.Chart by Carbon Brief. While human emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases are responsible for effectively all of the Earth’s long-term warming, temperatures in any given year are strongly influenced by short-term variations in the Earth’s climate that are ...

Mar 6, 2024 · The ‘Trump effect’ on US emissions. US greenhouse gas emissions have been falling steadily since 2005, due to a combination of economic shifts, greater efficiency, the growth of renewables and a shift from coal to gas power.. Since taking office in early 2021, Biden has pledged under the Paris Agreement to accelerate that trend by cutting US emissions to 50-52% below 2005 levels in 2030 ...

Nov 20, 2024 · Brazil’s new climate pledge, launched at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by as much as two-thirds by 2035 compared to 2005 levels.. The new pledge makes Brazil one of the first countries to release its latest plan – known as a “nationally determined contribution” (NDC) – ahead of the February 2025 deadline.

Nov 13, 2023 · Year-on-year change in China’s annual CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and cement, million tonnes. Emissions are estimated from National Bureau of Statistics data on production of different fuels and cement, China Customs data on imports and exports and WIND Information data on changes in inventories, applying IPCC default emissions factors and annual emissions factors per tonne of cement ...

Jul 24, 2024 · Very likely to be the warmest year on record. With half the year of data now available, Carbon Brief has determined that there is now an approximately 95% chance that 2024 will beat 2023 and be the warmest year on record, based on Copernicus/ECMWF’s ERA5 dataset. (Berkeley Earth separately estimated a 92% chance in their June update.). By looking at the relationship between the first six ...

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2024 in the first quarterly fall since the country re-opened from its “zero-Covid” lockdowns in December 2022.