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What’s happened this week in climate change? Read the latest issue of Carbon Brief’s weekly newsletter, DeBriefed, here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eB5HWnPc In this issue: 🤝 COP30 talks ended with a mixed, but “lukewarm” response on the final deal. 🌊 Floods in south-east Asia killed hundreds of people. 📆 Key dates for next week and pick of the job vacancies. 💡 Spotlight | Carbon Brief reports from an “emergency” climate and nature briefing in Westminster. ✍ Orla Dwyer Sign up to DeBriefed here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gteR7bTu #DeBriefed #ClimateNews #ClimateChange

China Briefing | COP30 wraps; Climate and critical minerals at G20; Coal use up 🇨🇳 Premier Li Qiang called for climate action and critical-minerals unity at G20. 🇨🇳 Renewable capacity rose, but coal covered October’s power-demand surge.  🇨🇳 China confirmed carbon-market expansion to key industries. 🇨🇳 Carbon Brief breaks down China’s role in dramatic last days of COP30. 🇨🇳 New science on forest methane sinks and record-breaking temperature events. Read more in the latest edition of China Briefing ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eKejh3bx Sign up to China Briefing here ➡ https://lnkd.in/gteR7bTu ✍️ By Anika Patel #ChinaBriefing #ClimateChange #Energy #China

📚 Carbon Brief has published an in-depth summary of all the key outcomes from COP30. 🔎 The article runs to around 20,000 words, but it is broken up into easy-to-read and navigable sections. ➡️ Fossil-fuel roadmap ➡️ Gender ➡️ COP Reform ➡️ Global mutirão ➡️ Climate finance ➡️ Unilateral trade measures ➡️ Deforestation ➡️ Just transition work programme ➡️ China’s position during the talks ➡️ Indigenous peoples protests 🔗 You can choose your chosen topic of interest and use the links at the start of the article to jump straight to it: https://buff.ly/3isyGpX ✍️ Dr Simon Evans, Daisy Dunne, Molly Lempriere, Josh Gabbatiss, Aruna Chandrasekhar, Anika Patel, Dr Giuliana Viglione, Yanine Quiroz and Orla Dwyer #COP30 #Belem #ClimateChange #ClimateFinance

Can electric vehicles become a source of electricity to the grid? China’s surging EV ownership – now exceeding 25.5m – is opening the door to a new technology that can help to enhance the flexibility of electricity supply. 💡 🔋 EVs connected via “vehicle-to-grid” (V2G) technology can function as “batteries on wheels” that charge and discharge according to the needs of the wider electricity system. The idea of turning EVs into “power banks” has already sparked both business and political interest in China. 🇨🇳 Read more about the new technology from Ye Yuan here ⬇️ https://buff.ly/7KhqesP #ElectricVehicles #Renewables #EnergyTransition #ChinaPolicy

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 government must lay out “carbon budgets” that set limits on the UK’s emissions over five-year periods. The new plan is the third draft, after the previous two delivery plans were successfully challenged in court. ⚖️ In this explainer, Carbon Brief gives an overview of the 363 pages of documents included in the plan, what it says about meeting UK emissions targets and what it means for individual sectors. Read more by Josh Gabbatiss, Daisy Dunne, and Molly Lempriere here ⬇️ https://buff.ly/XOxb3EL #UKpolicy #CarbonBudget #Emissions #ClimateChange

Governments have, once again, failed to agree on a timeline for the IPCC's seventh assessment cycle (AR7), two years into the process. The IPCC is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.🇺🇳 Last week, more than 300 scientists and government officials from around the world met in Lima, Peru🇵🇪 for the 63rd session of the IPCC (IPCC-63). According to the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, reporting exclusively from inside the four-day meeting, during the closed-door talks, “once-routine” issues became “deeply controversial and time-consuming”. For more on the "fraught deliberations", read Ayesha Tandon's reporting here ⬇️ https://buff.ly/rSMdzNf #IPCC #ClimateScience #ClimateChange #UNclimateTalks

🚨 JUST PUBLISHED: CARBON BRIEF’S #COP30 SUMMARY 🚨 It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting… –Global mutirão –Adaptation finance –Fossil-fuel roadmap –China +Much more Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast https://lnkd.in/eMJnUefR

China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months, according to new analysis for Carbon Brief. 🚗 The rapid adoption of electric vehicles saw CO2 emissions from transport fuel drop by 5% year-on-year, according to the analysis. 🏭 There were also emissions declines from cement and steel production. 📈 However, while emissions from the power sector were flat year-on-year, a big rise in the chemical industry’s CO2 output offset reductions elsewhere. Read the full analysis by Lauri Myllyvirta here ⬇️ https://buff.ly/ONGzk3a #China #ChinaPolicy #Emissions #ChinaEnergy

🚨 JUST PUBLISHED: CARBON BRIEF’S #COP30 SUMMARY 🚨 It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting… –Global mutirão –Adaptation finance –Fossil-fuel roadmap –China +Much more Very proud of team CB for getting this out so fast https://lnkd.in/eMJnUefR

✨Carbon Brief's mega summary of all of COP30's key outcomes, texts and dramas has just been published✨ Always a pleasure to work alongside a team of such talented and dedicated people to bring you this piece! We hope you enjoy and let us know what you think https://lnkd.in/e8vkBJWV