Emma Hancox
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DeBriefed | Earth’s first ‘tipping point’; Climate adviser interview; How warming affects children’s health
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October 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
DeBriefed | Earth’s first ‘tipping point’; Climate adviser interview; How warming affects children’s health
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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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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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August 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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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".
24 hours later he was on the BBC suggesting people had "misread" the letter and "a legally binding contract is a legally binding contract".
July 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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".
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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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...
time.com/4931586/irma...
In 2017, he tweeted a link to this article in Time...
time.com/4931586/irma...
June 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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...
time.com/4931586/irma...
In 2017, he tweeted a link to this article in Time...
time.com/4931586/irma...
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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 👇
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 👇
April 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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 👇
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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📢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%
www.carbonbrief.org/...
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🏭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%
www.carbonbrief.org/...
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March 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
📢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%
www.carbonbrief.org/...
1/9
🏭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%
www.carbonbrief.org/...
1/9
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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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February 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Just published – COP16: Key outcomes agreed at the resumed UN biodiversity conference in Rome
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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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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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February 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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.
📖 buff.ly/4ihfGdM
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.
📖 buff.ly/4ihfGdM
🦅🦦🐀🪵🤎
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...
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’
www.hackneycitizen.co.uk
February 20, 2025 at 10:49 AM
🦅🦦🐀🪵🤎
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...
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...
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NEW – The Carbon Brief Profile: Germany | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social
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Read here ➡️ https://buff.ly/430ptAx
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February 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
NEW – The Carbon Brief Profile: Germany | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social
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Read here ➡️ https://buff.ly/430ptAx
🎨 @jjgoodman.bsky.social
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@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
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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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February 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
@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
Apply here: www.carbonbrief.org/vacancy-data-analyst
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Essential every Friday catch up.
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.
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.
January 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Essential every Friday catch up.
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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 ⬇️
In an interview with @emmahancox.carbonbrief.org, she shares the struggles facing Dadaab’s refugees and concerns on how global politics will impact them ⬇️
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/
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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February 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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 ⬇️
In an interview with @emmahancox.carbonbrief.org, she shares the struggles facing Dadaab’s refugees and concerns on how global politics will impact them ⬇️
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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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Carbon Brief’s analysis covered by Anushka Asthana on @itvpeston.bsky.social
➡️ buff.ly/3WJ9Ut1
January 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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
➡️ buff.ly/3WJ9Ut1
Carbon Brief’s analysis covered by Anushka Asthana on @itvpeston.bsky.social
➡️ buff.ly/3WJ9Ut1
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.
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.
January 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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.
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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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...
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
enb.iisd.org
December 9, 2024 at 10:46 AM
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...
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...
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.
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.
November 25, 2024 at 10:59 AM
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.
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.
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...
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...
November 22, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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...
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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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 👀
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...
November 19, 2024 at 11:56 AM
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 👀
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 🎧⬇️
Pre-order 'Songs in the Key of MP3: The New Icons of the Internet Age' for a March release 🎧⬇️
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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November 22, 2024 at 1:02 PM
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 🎧⬇️
Pre-order 'Songs in the Key of MP3: The New Icons of the Internet Age' for a March release 🎧⬇️
A very, very useful thread on all of the little-known, handy features Bluesky has 👇
Since I've been here for a while… here are some useful features on Bluesky that you might not have discovered yet! 🧵
November 21, 2024 at 3:52 PM
A very, very useful thread on all of the little-known, handy features Bluesky has 👇
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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
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
November 19, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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
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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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...
www.carbonbrief.org/newsletter-s...
You can sign up here...
www.carbonbrief.org/newsletter-s...
November 18, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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...
www.carbonbrief.org/newsletter-s...
You can sign up here...
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You can follow all of my Carbon Brief colleagues using this list:
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November 14, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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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 👌
Thanks to everyone who came along and brought the pub quiz vibes 👌
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
Catch up on all the details here: https://buff.ly/4fi2N1S
✍️ @jjgoodman.bsky.social
November 14, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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 👌
Thanks to everyone who came along and brought the pub quiz vibes 👌