NEW: Carbon Brief has scoured media and civil-society reports from the past five years to paint, for the first time, a global picture of the impacts of #CarbonOffsets

More than 50 cases of carbon-offset projects causing harm have been mapped

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Some 70% of the reports examined by Carbon Brief found evidence of carbon-offset projects causing harm to Indigenous people and local communities

Reports range in location from the Democratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩 and Malaysia 🇲🇾 through to the Peruvian Amazon 🇵🇪

NEW: For months, Carbon Brief has been investigating #CarbonOffsets

Today, we publish a special series interrogating every aspect of this often murky practice

To start, here’s an in-depth Q&A on whether carbon offsets can help to tackle climate change

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Public understanding of carbon offsets is often obscured by technical and tricky-to-understand language

Here’s a glossary laying out definitions for more than 60 terms and phrases associated with carbon-offsetting

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FACTCHECK | Some Conservative politicians are claiming solar farms are a ‘threat’ to UK farmland.

But what are the facts?

@Josh_Gabbatiss @freyagraham_ @rtmcswee @GAViglione

1/4 The UK government has announced plans to increase solar power capacity “up to five times” by 2035.

If built, solar farms would still only represent half the space taken up by golf courses.

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Daily Briefing | California to ban the sale of new gasoline cars
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Cropped | Drought deluge; US climate bill tackles farming; Pantanal fires

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Daily Briefing | Europe's drought the worst in 500 years – report
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Daily Briefing | UK inflation projected to hit 18.6% as gas prices surge
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Daily Briefing | Heatwaves sweep the northeast over sweltering weekend
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THREAD - Climate change will make it harder for world’s poorest to migrate, study says

@nerdfighterwu explores findings on climate-related resource constraints and movement - in a study by @HeleneBenvenist @NatureClimate, w/ comment @RiosmenF Chi Xu bit.ly/3BdlmTO

1/6 As the planet 🌍 warms and extreme events around the world become more severe, some people migrate to adapt.

But what about those living in climate-threatened areas who are unable to migrate 🧳 due to resource deprivation?

@HeleneBenveniste @RiosmenF Chi Xu

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Daily Briefing | Climate change: Rich nations accused of ‘betrayal’ at Bonn talks
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NEW - Explainer: Can climate change and biodiversity loss be tackled together?

@daisydunnesci explores the links between these two global threats 🌍 with @KHayhoe @Pettorelli @CharlieLouO @poertner_hans @PeterSoroye @alex_pigot @mremae @LiShuo_GP

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carbonbrief.org/explainer-can-… Climate change and biodiversity loss share many common causes, such as meat production 🐄, fossil fuel extraction 🛢️ and tropical deforestation 🌴

Climate scientist @KHayhoe tells Carbon Brief: “We have been living as if the world were infinite and flat. And it isn’t.”

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Cropped | LEAF Coalition concerns; Kiwis’ carbon pricing; Biofuel boom

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Daily Briefing | Government to take ‘special share’ in Sizewell C nuclear plant project
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Daily Briefing | Spain and southern France hit by second extreme heat event of year
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THREAD - Carbon Brief has delved into all 3,675 pages of the new IPCC report 📑 on how climate change is impacting people and wildlife in every world region 🌎 – and what humans can do to adapt

Here are the key takeaways:
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1/6 The second part of the IPCC’s sixth assessment report (AR6) warns that climate change has already affected people’s health worldwide – including mental health in some regions

One of the more obvious impacts of climate change on human health is extreme heat, the report says

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NEW | Analysis: Which countries are historically responsible for climate change? | @DrSimEvans

Cumulative fossil fuel & land emissions 1850-2021
🇺🇸 US 509GtCO2
🇨🇳 CN 284
🇷🇺 RU 172
🇧🇷 BR 113
🇮🇩 ID 103
🇩🇪 DE 88
🇮🇳 IN 86
🇬🇧 UK 74
🇯🇵 JP 68
🇨🇦 CA 65

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THREAD Historical responsibility for climate change is at the heart of debates over climate justice

History matters because the cumulative amount of CO2 emitted since the industrial revolution 🏭 is closely tied to the 1.2C of warming 📈 that has already occurred

NEW | In-depth Q&A: What is ‘climate justice’? | @Josh_Gabbatiss @AyeshaTandon

This piece launches Carbon Brief's week-long series on #ClimateJustice...
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📖 A brief history of climate justice
✊ What does the movement want?
🗣️ How it has shaped climate negotiations
⚖️ Its influence on politics, activism and courts
🌏 Why climate change affects people differently
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On Monday, the #IPCC published its 6th #ClimateReport.

Carbon Brief pored over more than 3,000 pages to produce this in-depth Q&A.

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It unpacks the key findings of the report and explains the developments since the previous assessment. Headlines 📰 this week from around the world have focused on the report’s main findings.

“Starkest warning yet”
“Code red for humanity”

@Josh_Gabbatiss @AyeshaTandon & @GAViglione pulled together the key reactions from newspapers in an interactive table
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NEW | Limiting warming to 1.5C would ‘halve’ land-ice contribution to sea level rise by 2100 | @ayeshatandon j.mp/3ePH0AM

NEW | Guest post: Overshooting 2C risks rapid and unstoppable sea level rise from Antarctica j.mp/3ejoK3C

(1/7) Today, we bring you coverage of two @nature papers.

1. Projects 25cm of sea level rise from land ice melt by 2100 under current emission pledges.

2. Projects greater mass loss from Antarctica, warning of an “abrupt jump” in Antarctic ice melt if warming exceeds 2C.

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As 2020 draws to a close, here is a taster of the range of content and topics that Carbon Brief has covered over the past 12 months… 🗓️

THREAD The year has been dominated, of course, by Covid-19. In April, @DrSimEvans estimated that widespread lockdowns could knock 5.5% off global CO2 emissions in 2020: bit.ly/3axKirQ

📉 This month, @gcarbonproject said it will likely clock in at 7%: bit.ly/3h7Sznz

NEW | Interactive: What is the climate impact of eating meat and dairy? @daisydunnesci @tomoprater @joegoodman94

This is the first article in Carbon Brief’s week-long series on food and climate change…

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THREAD 1/7 It explores the science of how eating animal products drives emissions…

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