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Daily Briefing: China’s ‘wasted wind’ | New vision for ‘planetary survival’ | EU energy aid ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/pEsmHDr ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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🌽 New Cropped just dropped 🌽 Cropped: Highway through the Amazon | El Niño impact | State of CO2 removal 📝 @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @giulianaviglione.bsky.social Read here ➡️ buff.ly/lPj7Zxq Subscribe to our newsletters ➡️ buff.ly/k84LIFK

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Daily Briefing: ‘Imminent’ El Niño | UK’s 87% climate goal | States sue over wind exit ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/LWLCJci ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Daily Briefing: India’s ‘3,400 heat deaths’ | UK’s £100bn net-zero economy | Wildfires ‘costliest ever’ ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/cQO9GN8 ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Daily Briefing: US to ‘kill’ climate disclosure rule | China-EU trade spat | England’s dry spring ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/Ylrg9qP ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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DeBriefed 29 May 2026: Europe’s ‘mind-boggling’ May | Indian heat deaths | Nigeria’s solar mini-grids ✍️ Written by @solomon.elusoji.carbonbrief.org 💻 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/zk0OK62 Subscribe to DeBriefed ➡️ buff.ly/J6uB9Kc

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Daily Briefing: Portugal heat record | Oz emissions drop | COP31 host Turkey ‘excludes’ Cyprus ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/fXJWFjt ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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China Briefing 28 May 2026: Deadly rains | China pushes back | Examining China’s carbon intensity metric ✍️ @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/nG3yJXi Subscriber to Carbon Brief's newsletters ➡️ subscribe.carbonbrief.org

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Daily Briefing: 1.5C warning | Oil investment drops | China stockpiles coal ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/6F0Qsxw ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Daily Briefing: Europe ‘shatter[s]’ heat records | India’s killer heat | ‘Eternity glaciers’ disappear ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/ihih0qT ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Interested in the intersection between food systems, land use, nature and climate change? 🌿 Hear from our team of global journalists every fortnight on the context behind headlines, interesting new reads and more. Sign up to our newsletter Cropped ⬇️ subscribe.carbonbrief.org

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Daily Briefing: UK smashes May heat record | India heatwave’s power demand | China coal disaster ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/NuH9PPV ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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DeBriefed: UN adopts landmark resolution | Trump takes on ‘RCP8.5’ | Climate migration ✍️ Written by @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org 💻 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/KIiRwFp Subscribe to DeBriefed ➡️ buff.ly/J6uB9Kc

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Daily Briefing: UK’s ‘most-ambitious’ targets | US eases ‘super pollutant’ rules | Colombia’s ‘climate crossroads’ ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/sVtNuJ3 ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Subscribe to Carbon Brief’s 🇨🇳 China Briefing newsletter for: ➤Key developments in China's energy sector ➤Latest climate news ➤Context behind the headlines ➤In-depth analysis ➤Interesting new science ➤Recommended reading Sign up here for free ⬇️ subscribe.carbonbrief.org

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Daily Briefing: UN backs ICJ | Wind and solar ‘outpace gas’ | Oil drops 6% ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/oCJ8YP3 ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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🌽 New Cropped just dropped 🌽 Cropped: Deforestation roadmap | Melanesian Ocean Summit | Returning pet parrots to the wild ✍️ written by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @giulianaviglione.bsky.social Read here ➡️ bit.ly/3Pjis9I Subscribe here ➡️ buff.ly/k84LIFK

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Daily Briefing: Renewables ‘boom’ | Air-con ‘unavoidable’ for UK | India’s ‘peak power’ ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/OHm3Q8z ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Daily Briefing: Germany ‘to miss’ 2030 goal | Solar exports ‘resilient’ | Infectious disease warning ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/WJW5W22 ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Daily Briefing: UAE ‘to bypass Hormuz’ | UNFCCC praises China | ‘Rising electrostates’ ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/QZcbbKz ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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DeBriefed: Trump-Xi ‘energy deal’ | ‘Supercharged’ El Niño | India’s first ‘heat lounges’ ✍️ Written by @arunacsekhar.bsky.social 📝 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/1Iwruv9 Subscribe to DeBriefed ➡️ buff.ly/J6uB9Kc

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Daily Briefing: Trump and Xi talk energy | Canada’s gas bet | Cuba ‘out of diesel’ ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/QkPCT0e ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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To keep track of the rapidly growing field of attribution research, Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has influenced extreme weather. Explore the interactive map here ⬇️ interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-...

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Daily Briefing: Oil supply ‘plunge’ | Mediterranean gas | World Cup heat fears ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/DH33Ctg ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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DeBriefed is your essential guide to the week’s key global developments relating to climate change. Stay up-to-date with the science, talking points, statistics, charts, reports and must-reads. Sign up here for free ⬇️ subscribe.carbonbrief.org

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Cropped is Carbon Brief’s fortnightly newsletter that provides a digest of all the key developments from the fraught, yet fascinating intersection between food systems 🐄 , land use 🌽, nature 🌿 and climate change. Sign up here for free ⬇️ subscribe.carbonbrief.org

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Daily Briefing: China/US discuss energy | India fuel-saving | Trump attacks UK’s ‘windmilling’ ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/1Ln6ehP ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Daily Briefing: El Niño extremes | ‘Critically low’ fuels | Alaska oil exploration ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/hE4amI6 ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Daily Briefing: Antarctica’s ‘record melt’ | Africa’s EVs | Aramco profits jump ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/Al7emut ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Daily Briefing: Extreme weather ‘brewing’ | Attenborough turns 100 | BP’s carbon-capture sell-off ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/c5Z2Zj4 ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Wherever you live on the planet, 🇨🇳China’s efforts to tackle climate change affect us all. Carbon Brief’s award-winning China Briefing newsletter rounds up all the need-to-know information about climate and energy in China from the past 14 days. Sign up for free 🔽 subscribe.carbonbrief.org

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Daily Briefing: ‘Round-the-clock’ renewables | EU ‘floats easy methane rules’ | Mega tsunami risk ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/3BQfG1V ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Daily Briefing: Germany ‘pushes’ industry to cut carbon | India’s ‘power high’ | Microplastics ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/piRot8W ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Daily Briefing: Clean shipping deal still in play | Methane leaks continue | More free EUETS permits ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/STtJ1fz ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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DeBriefed: Countries chart path away from fossil fuels | China’s clean-tech surge | Global forest loss slows ✍️ Written by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/AkXRCV6 Subscribe to DeBriefed ➡️ buff.ly/J6uB9Kc

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Daily Briefing: ‘Historic breakthrough’ in Colombia | War fuels renewables ‘boom’ | Sharks collecting data ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/lujz9NH ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Is global warming tipping Atlantic ocean currents towards 'collapse'? Read Carbon Brief’s full explainer here: buff.ly/mgaIBvM

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China Briefing: Fossil fuel ‘strict controls’ | El Niño approaches | Why cleantech exports have surged ✍️ @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️ buff.ly/TJy0Z3z

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Daily Briefing: Colombia summit concludes | Global forest loss ‘slows’ | Heat stress research ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/8wFpiVu ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Subscribe to Carbon Brief’s 🇨🇳 China Briefing newsletter for: ➤Key developments in China's energy sector ➤Latest climate news ➤Context behind the headlines ➤In-depth analysis ➤Interesting new science ➤Recommended reading Sign up here for free ⬇️ subscribe.carbonbrief.org

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Daily Briefing: UAE quits OPEC | US clean power record | BP’s ‘astronomical’ profits ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/H8O1JIB ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Daily Briefing: Colombia summit | Energy tax cuts ‘spread’ | Trump’s offshore wind pay-offs ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/G1bMnL3 ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Is global warming tipping key Atlantic ocean currents towards ‘collapse’? ✍️ @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org 🎨 @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org and Kerry Cleaver Read here ➡️ buff.ly/mgaIBvM

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Daily Briefing: Fossil-fuel summit | Record US energy exports | AI impacts ‘underestimated’ ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/059WnoO ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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DeBriefed: Europe’s energy-crisis plan | Renewables overtake coal | Colombia’s fossil-fuel summit ✍️ Written by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/iQkVvh7 Subscribe to DeBriefed ➡️ buff.ly/J6uB9Kc

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Daily Briefing: ‘Biggest energy security threat’ | Colombia summit | BP’s ‘heavy defeat’ ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/J3H5VqN ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Daily Briefing: Food systems ‘on the brink’ | G7 ‘omits climate’ | China to ‘vigorously’ develop cleantech ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/8FcLhes ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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🌽 New Cropped just dropped 🌽 Cropped: Global food ‘catastrophe’ | BECCS emissions | UK solar farm controversy ✍️ written by @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @arunacsekhar.bsky.social 📝 edited by @giulianaviglione.bsky.social Read here ➡️ buff.ly/X1uVLMS Subscribe here ➡️ buff.ly/k84LIFK

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Renewable energy has overtaken coal to become the world’s largest source of electricity in 2025, according to thinktank Ember. In this video, Carbon Brief’s @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org reports on Ember’s analysis. Read the full report here ➡️ buff.ly/XtaYP1D

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Daily Briefing: EU crisis response | Judge blocks Trump | Iran ceasefire extended ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/UbGiYkB ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Daily Briefing: Clean power ‘permanent shift’ | EV sales up 51% | UK ‘to delink’ gas and power ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/IdrKPRW ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Daily Briefing: EU ‘pushes remote working’ | Miliband to ‘double down’ on net-zero | Japan’s new word for 40C ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/MnAYXwp ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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DeBriefed: Fossil-fuel power slumps | ‘Super’ El Niño warning | Afghanistan’s climate struggle ✍️ Written by @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org 💻 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/lG5IWvg Subscribe to DeBriefed ➡️ buff.ly/J6uB9Kc

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Daily Briefing: UK wholesale power price plan | Europe jet-fuel warning | Trump an ‘utter disaster’ ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/kKO0VIg ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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China Briefing: Billions for grid | Petrochemical plan | China’s high-seas bid ✍️ @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️ buff.ly/enKb4t0

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Wherever you live on the planet, 🇨🇳China’s efforts to tackle climate change affect us all. Carbon Brief’s award-winning China Briefing newsletter rounds up all the need-to-know information about climate and energy in China from the past 14 days. Sign up for free 🔽 subscribe.carbonbrief.org

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Daily Briefing: Oil demand ‘plummets’ | More ‘drill, baby, drill’ | EU ‘accelerate’ draft ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/fkL310J ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Daily Briefing: Oil above $100 | Liu urges on renewables | UK reactor loan ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/Ee5Ed7A ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Daily Briefing: Hormuz naval blockade | France electrification plan | EV interest ‘surge’ ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/ui3DcpJ ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Daily Briefing: US drought | OpenAI ‘pauses’ UK deal | Penguin chick ‘mass drowning’ ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/uVFpdmP ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Daily Briefing: India withdraws COP33 bid | UK approves largest solar farm | China ‘wasting’ renewables ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/oiSvpJM ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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🌽 New Cropped just dropped 🌽 Cropped: Iran war drives up food prices | Two nature talks conclude | Return of UK’s tallest bird ✍️ @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @yaninequiroz.bsky.social Read here ➡️ buff.ly/3FCPQbb Subscribe to our newsletters ➡️ buff.ly/k84LIFK

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Daily Briefing: Oil prices plunge | UK drilling could ‘imperil climate goals’ | India’s ‘cheap solar’ ➡️ Read today's briefing here: buff.ly/snw2Hqs ➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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