Carbon Brief speaks to experts about the contested legality of leaving the UNFCCC and what practical changes will result from US departure.

The US, which has announced plans to withdraw from the global climate treaty is more historically responsible for climate change than any other country ...

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UK’s fleet of wind, solar and biomass power plants set records in 2025, Carbon Brief analysis shows, but electricity from gas still went up.

US president Donald Trump says Venezuela “will be turning over” 30-50m barrels of oil to the US, which will be worth around $2.8bn (£2.1bn) ...

Global oil prices have fallen slightly “after the US operation to oust Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro created uncertainty.

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 “wealthiest 10%” of people on the planet are “responsible” for 65% of the 0.61C increase in global average temperatures over 1990-2020, according to new research. The study, published in Nature ...

This week, the international court o f justice (ICJ) opened two weeks of hearings on states’ climate-related legal obligations – and the consequences, if “significant harm” is caused. The case stems ...

On the evening of Tuesday, 8 December, 1981, the UK’s only commercial TV channel, ITV, broadcast an hour-long documentary called “Warming Warning”. It was among the earliest occasions – possibly the ...