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Emma Hancox @emmahancox.carbonbrief.org · Aug 28

Great stuff fro the CB team! ☀️

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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · Aug 28

Are you or your loved ones worried about solar farms?

Have you heard scary things about solar panels turning the countryside into an industrial hellscape?

Fear not! We at Carbon Brief have just published the definitive article debunking solar myths ⬇️

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Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar

Carbon Brief factchecks 16 of the most common myths about solar power

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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · Jul 18

On Wednesday, Reform's Richard Tice wrote to energy companies saying the party would "seek to strike down" existing subsidies for renewables if it takes power.

24 hours later he was on the BBC suggesting people had "misread" the letter and "a legally binding contract is a legally binding contract".

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · Jun 10

What a (some might say cynical) journey the latest chairman of Reform UK has been on when it comes to his denial of climate change!

In 2017, he tweeted a link to this article in Time...

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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · Apr 16

Pretty sickened by UK's Supreme Court 🤮

So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · Mar 12

📢ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 3.6% in 2024 to lowest since 1872

🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London
🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn
🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power
📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84%

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Feb 28

Just published – COP16: Key outcomes agreed at the resumed UN biodiversity conference in Rome

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COP16: Key outcomes agreed at the resumed UN biodiversity conference in Rome - Carbon Brief

Countries have agreed at the resumed COP16 talks in Rome to a strategy for “mobilising”...

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Emma Hancox @emmahancox.carbonbrief.org · Feb 28

Welcome back, beavers 🦫

After being hunted to extinction in the UK, beavers are returning across the country.

Today, the UK government announced its commitment to reintroducing beavers into the wild.

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Beaver releases into wild to be allowed in England for first time in centuries

Exclusive: Government to grant nature groups a licence for release of rodent species after earlier setbacks

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Emma Hancox @emmahancox.carbonbrief.org · Feb 20

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Volunteers have helped bring back kestrels, weasels, shrews, wood mice and other small mammals to Hackney Marshes following the erosion of River Lea habitats in recent years.

www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2025/02/19/j...

Joy as rewilders return small mammals to Hackney Marshes

Council praised for support in bringing local wildlife back from ‘absolute crunch point’

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Feb 18

NEW – The Carbon Brief Profile: Germany | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social

🎨 @jjgoodman.bsky.social

Read here ➡️ https://buff.ly/430ptAx

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Emma Hancox @emmahancox.carbonbrief.org · Feb 3

@carbonbrief.org is looking for a data analyst, helping us analyse climate and energy data to find new stories and bring fresh numbers to the conversation.

Apply here: www.carbonbrief.org/vacancy-data-analyst

#vacancy #hiring #jobs

Vacancy: Data analyst - Carbon Brief

Carbon Brief is seeking a skilled data analyst to support our award-winning journalism. You’ll help...

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ollie4 @ollie4.bsky.social · Jan 31

Essential every Friday catch up.

Emma Hancox @emmahancox.carbonbrief.org · Jan 31

This week's climate newsletter from CB: bit.ly/4glefJN

For this edition's 'spotlight', I spoke to a young female journalist from Kenya’s Dadaab refugee complex. Via the camp's radio station, Fardowsa is documenting how, more and more, people are arriving in her community because of climate change.

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Environmental Justice Foundation @ejfoundation.org · Feb 3

Fardowsa is a journalist living in Dadaab refugee camp who works to shed light on the stories of her fellow refugees and the climate crisis.

In an interview with ‪@emmahancox.carbonbrief.org‬, she shares the struggles facing Dadaab’s refugees and concerns on how global politics will impact them ⬇️

Emma Hancox @emmahancox.carbonbrief.org · Jan 31

You can watch the film Fardowsa made alongside @ejfoundation.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m3l0-IpCeM

DeBriefed is your essential, digestible guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. In your inbox every Friday lunch. Sign up here: www.carbonbrief.org/debriefed/

Radio Dadaab

YouTube video by Environmental Justice Foundation

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Jan 30

New runways at London airports would result in cumulative emissions of around 92m tonnes of extra CO2e by 2050, if the number of flights increases in line with their operating company targets.

Carbon Brief’s analysis covered by Anushka Asthana on @itvpeston.bsky.social

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Emma Hancox @emmahancox.carbonbrief.org · Jan 31

You can watch the film Fardowsa made alongside @ejfoundation.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m3l0-IpCeM

DeBriefed is your essential, digestible guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. In your inbox every Friday lunch. Sign up here: www.carbonbrief.org/debriefed/

Radio Dadaab

YouTube video by Environmental Justice Foundation

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Emma Hancox @emmahancox.carbonbrief.org · Jan 31

This week's climate newsletter from CB: bit.ly/4glefJN

For this edition's 'spotlight', I spoke to a young female journalist from Kenya’s Dadaab refugee complex. Via the camp's radio station, Fardowsa is documenting how, more and more, people are arriving in her community because of climate change.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · Dec 9

Reflecting on these words today:

UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell: 'climate finance is not charity,' 'If two-thirds of the world’s nations cannot afford to cut emissions, every nation pays the price.'

Source: ENB COP29 Summary report enb.iisd.org/baku-un-clim...

Summary report 11–22 November 2024

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Emma Hancox @emmahancox.carbonbrief.org · Nov 25

Everything you need to know about the #COP29 climate summit. What went down, the official outcomes, and detail about specific topics.

An excellent team effort from my Carbon Brief colleagues!

Follow @carbonbrief.org for more on COP and climate change in the aftermath over the next few weeks.

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Emma Hancox @emmahancox.carbonbrief.org · Nov 22

People have been loving Carbon Brief's webinars – so here's another one!

If you want to understand the outcome of #COP29 (once it ends) tune in to my expert colleagues on Monday, who have been in attendance and will explain what went down and answer your questions ⬇️
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Nov 19

Very honoured to be the majestic @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social’s first book on here. My debut, a celebration of the genius imaginative potential of real human beings and all of the beautiful music they made, arrives on shelves in March next year 👀

White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · Nov 15

This is the perfect book for our first announcement on here; a brilliant new talent in Liam Inscoe-Jones, with SONGS IN THE KEY OF MP3 - an innovative exploration of the last 10 years of music via 5 artists who broke the old rules of sound, style and the industry at large geni.us/songsintheke...

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Emma Hancox @emmahancox.carbonbrief.org · Nov 22

My pal wrote a book about music and it's gonna be excellent.

Pre-order 'Songs in the Key of MP3: The New Icons of the Internet Age' for a March release 🎧⬇️

Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Nov 19

Pre order my book through the magnificent @normanrecords.bsky.social here and get an indie-exclusive zine alongside it ✨ www.normanrecords.com/artist/57359...

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Emma Hancox @emmahancox.carbonbrief.org · Nov 21

A very, very useful thread on all of the little-known, handy features Bluesky has 👇

Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Nov 20

Since I've been here for a while… here are some useful features on Bluesky that you might not have discovered yet! 🧵

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Nov 19

If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up.

If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · Nov 18

Thrilled to see the Guardian's COP29 live-blog featuring Carbon Brief's "absolutely essential" Daily Briefing newsletter, which, this morning, was researched and written - all 5,000+ words of it! - by @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org

You can sign up here...

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Emma Hancox @emmahancox.carbonbrief.org · Nov 14

You can follow all of my Carbon Brief colleagues using this list:
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Emma Hancox @emmahancox.carbonbrief.org · Nov 14

Another fun (and insanely difficult) annual climate quiz - Carbon Brief's 10th in a row! 🎉

Thanks to everyone who came along and brought the pub quiz vibes 👌

Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Nov 7

Around 500 scientists, civil servants, journalists and climate experts took part in the 10th annual Carbon Brief quiz on Wednesday.

Catch up on all the details here: https://buff.ly/4fi2N1S

✍️ @jjgoodman.bsky.social

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