Captured: Analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) found that global electricity generation from fossil fuels fell in the first month of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz
Also in this issue . . . Carbon Brief reports on the impact of climate change in Afghanistan, following deadly floods this year.
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In this issue:
🌎 Oil prices rebounded after US-Iran peace talks failed.
📉 Global use of fossil fuels for power slumped during the Strait of Hormuz blockage.
💼 Key dates for next week and pick of the job vacancies.
DeBriefed: Fossil-fuel power slumps | ‘Super’ El Niño warning | Afghanistan’s climate struggle
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Q&A: What Magyar’s defeat of Orbán in Hungary means for climate and energy | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social
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Daily Briefing: UK wholesale power price plan | Europe jet-fuel warning | Trump an ‘utter disaster’
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Carbon Brief examines the debate over China’s bid to host the “high seas” treaty.
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The key climate & energy developments from China over the past fortnight in this issue:
🇨🇳 Grid operators invested $24.5bn in first quarter of 2026.
🇨🇳 Bilateral talks on energy security as Middle East conflict continues.
🇨🇳 New plan to upgrade or phase out old petrochemical plants.
China Briefing: Billions for grid | Petrochemical plan | China’s high-seas bid
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The Carbon Brief Profile: DRC 🇨🇩 #CBarchive |
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Daily Briefing: Oil demand ‘plummets’ | More ‘drill, baby, drill’ | EU ‘accelerate’ draft
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Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @leohickman.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org #CBarchive
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Daily Briefing: Oil above $100 | Liu urges on renewables | UK reactor loan
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Great to see SEI’s Albert Salamanca joining @carbonbrief.org's 2026 cohort of contributing editors 👏
Recognizing his work on climate #adaptation, risk and the research–policy interface in Southeast Asia.
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The Carbon Brief Profile: United States | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @jjgoodman.bsky.social #CBarchive
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Daily Briefing: Hormuz naval blockade | France electrification plan | EV interest ‘surge’
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Recommended read: In the Equator, Mona Ali, associate professor of economics at the State University of New York, explored the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the “end of American hegemony”.
Recommended listen: Mark Blyth, a professor of international economics at Brown University, and Dr Naa Adjekai Adjei, a non-resident fellow, Africa, at the @chinagsproject.bsky.social, discussed “what the US dollar has to do” with energy access in Africa.
Recommended read: In the Indian Express, Simon Stiell, the executive secretary of UN Climate Change, argued that “climate cooperation offers a way out of energy price chaos”.
Marine heatwaves ‘nearly double’ the economic damage caused by tropical cyclones
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💬 With comments from: Dr Hamed Moftakhari, @soheilradfar.bsky.social, Dr Daneeja Mawren and Dr Jonathan Lin
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In this issue:
🏭 The world’s “worst polluters” continued to profit from high energy prices
🇮🇳 The Indian government withdrew from offering to host COP33
💅 Carbon Brief reports on how some drag artists are tackling climate change
🗓️ Key dates for next week and pick of the job vacancies
DeBriefed: Worst energy crisis ‘ever’ | India withdraws COP33 bid | Drag artists and climate change
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Daily Briefing: US drought | OpenAI ‘pauses’ UK deal | Penguin chick ‘mass drowning’
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Daily Briefing: India withdraws COP33 bid | UK approves largest solar farm | China ‘wasting’ renewables
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NEW – Iran war analysis: How 60 nations have responded to the global energy crisis | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social
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Recommended listen: A Nature Answers podcast told the story of a community in Côte d’lvoire, where farmers moved from climate scepticism to adopting climate-adaptation measures.
Recommended read: @mongabay.com covered five bird species thought extinct that were rediscovered in 2025.
Recommended read: The UK online nature publication, @inkcapjournal.bsky.social, headed by former Carbon Brief journalist @sophieyeo.bsky.social, has relaunched with a new look.
