March 2024

This is an online version of Carbon Brief’s weekly DeBriefed email newsletter. Subscribe for free here. This week EU passes nature law  NATURE LAW: On Tuesday, the European parliament approved its “flagship” law to restore nature, reported Reuters, despite a backlash “ignited” by protests from farmers across Europe in recent weeks. The long-awaited “nature restoration” law commits countries […]

Last year was the warmest since records began in the mid-1800s – and likely for many thousands of years before.  It was the first year in which average global temperatures at the surface exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial levels in at least one global temperature dataset. Here, Carbon Brief examines the latest data across the oceans, atmosphere,

While 2023 made headlines for smashing global temperature records, last year also saw some truly remarkable events in the Antarctic. After crashing to a record-low summer extent in February, sea ice around the southern continent regrew extremely slowly.  By July, when sea ice should be approaching its maximum winter coverage, there was an area of ice “missing” that