Currently, there is no equivalent to fuel duty for electric vehicles. Excise duty was brought in for EVs for the first time in April 2025, costing £10 for the first year and then rising to a standard ...

A second version of COP30’s key mutirão text emerged and on COP’s final scheduled day, a chart showed how most climate talks ...

This article is based on a collaboration with the Guardian’s data team, including data journalist Carmen Aguilar García and data projects editor Pamela Duncan. Developed countries have poured billions ...

On Saturday evening, nations meeting at COP30 in Brazil agreed to launch “limited initiatives to strengthen emissions-cutting plans, as well as tripling finance” for adaptation ...

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels and cement will rise around 1.1% in 2025, reaching a record 38.1bn tonnes of CO2 (GtCO2), according to the latest figures from the Global Carbon ...

The COP30 climate summit is entering its final days in Belém – and food, forests and land have all featured across the two weeks of talks.

This week, Carbon Brief’s expert team walk through what is happening with the biggest issues being negotiated at COP30.

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing. China Briefing handpicks and explains the most important climate and energy stories from China over the past fortnight. Subscribe for free here. Sign up to ...

COP30 negotiations were disrupted yesterday after a fire broke out at a pavilion inside the conference venue in Belém.

This guest post is by: Lauri Myllyvirta, lead analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air and senior fellow at Asia Society Policy Institute China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were ...