A UN summit on the world’s oceans opens today in Nice, France, reports Agence France-Presse. The newswire says: “ [The meeting] will not produce a legally binding agreement at its close like a climate ...

The owner of British Gas has reached a £20bn deal to buy gas from Norway over the coming decade, in what the Financial Times describes as a “sign that the UK will remain reliant on fossil-fuel imports ...

The global shift towards a clean-energy system is much more than just a technological switch – it is a profound transformation of markets, industries and societal behaviours.

The UK’s solar farms and rooftops generated more electricity than ever before in the first five months of 2025.

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We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight. This is an online version of Carbon Brief’s fortnightly Cropped email ...

A landmark global goal to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 is close to slipping beyond reach – and may have not been achievable when it was set in 2022, according to a former UK lead ...

There is further coverage of the Trump administration’s plans to open up more of the Alaskan Arctic for oil drilling.

Carbon Brief looks back at Shenzhen’s low-carbon transition efforts to date and assesses its progress on carbon mitigation.