Carbon Brief speaks to experts about the contested legality of leaving the UNFCCC and what practical changes will result from US departure.

There is ongoing media coverage of the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw the US from 66 international organisations ...

The US, which has announced plans to withdraw from the global climate treaty is more historically responsible for climate change than any other country ...

UK’s fleet of wind, solar and biomass power plants set records in 2025, Carbon Brief analysis shows, but electricity from gas still went up.

US president Donald Trump says Venezuela “will be turning over” 30-50m barrels of oil to the US, which will be worth around $2.8bn (£2.1bn) ...

Global oil prices have fallen slightly “after the US operation to oust Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro created uncertainty.

Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from energy use and industry could peak as soon as this year, according to Carbon Brief analysis of figures from the International Energy Agency (IEA). The IEA’s ...

An “urgent” overhaul of the UK’s land and agricultural sector will be essential to meet the government’s legally binding net-zero target, says the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) in a new report.

This guest post is by: Prof Christina Hulbe, a geophysicist in the National School of Surveying at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Between its east and west ice sheets and its peninsula, ...

The UK government has set out a long-awaited plan explaining how it will cut emissions in the 2030s, on its legally bound path to net-zero by the middle of the century. Under the Climate Change Act, ...

The “wealthiest 10%” of people on the planet are “responsible” for 65% of the 0.61C increase in global average temperatures over 1990-2020, according to new research. The study, published in Nature ...