Orla Dwyer
@orladwyer.carbonbrief.org
Food, land and nature journalist at Carbon Brief
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Brazil’s $125bn forest fund – framed as the “biggest thing to come out of COP30” – goes live tomorrow.
Critics point out that TFFF “puts private investors first”, forest payouts last + sets a 🌳 bar too low to be “scientifically credible”.
@yaninequiroz.bsky.social and I 🕵🏽♀️, for @carbonbrief.org.
Critics point out that TFFF “puts private investors first”, forest payouts last + sets a 🌳 bar too low to be “scientifically credible”.
@yaninequiroz.bsky.social and I 🕵🏽♀️, for @carbonbrief.org.
NEW – COP30: Could Brazil’s ‘Tropical Forest Forever’ fund help tackle climate change? | @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @yaninequiroz.bsky.social
Read here ⬇️
Read here ⬇️
COP30: Could Brazil’s ‘Tropical Forest Forever’ fund help tackle climate change? - Carbon Brief
Billed as the “Amazon COP”, the UN climate talks will see the debut of Brazil’s...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Brazil’s $125bn forest fund – framed as the “biggest thing to come out of COP30” – goes live tomorrow.
Critics point out that TFFF “puts private investors first”, forest payouts last + sets a 🌳 bar too low to be “scientifically credible”.
@yaninequiroz.bsky.social and I 🕵🏽♀️, for @carbonbrief.org.
Critics point out that TFFF “puts private investors first”, forest payouts last + sets a 🌳 bar too low to be “scientifically credible”.
@yaninequiroz.bsky.social and I 🕵🏽♀️, for @carbonbrief.org.
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NEW – UN report: Five charts showing how global deforestation is declining | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/EnDIN4D
Read here: buff.ly/EnDIN4D
October 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
NEW – UN report: Five charts showing how global deforestation is declining | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/EnDIN4D
Read here: buff.ly/EnDIN4D
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Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* #methane metric means for farming emissions
By @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org
#climatecrisis
www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-the-...
By @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org
#climatecrisis
www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-the-...
Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions - Carbon Brief
A controversial way of measuring how much methane warms the planet has stirred debate in recent years – particularly around assessing the climate impact of livestock farming.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* #methane metric means for farming emissions
By @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org
#climatecrisis
www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-the-...
By @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org
#climatecrisis
www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-the-...
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Missed this, as I was travelling, but an excellent explainer all about GWP* (read GWP-star) from @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @carbonbrief.org
#methane #metrics #climateaction
#methane #metrics #climateaction
Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions - Carbon Brief
A controversial way of measuring how much methane warms the planet has stirred debate in recent years – particularly around assessing the climate impact of livestock farming.
www.carbonbrief.org
October 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Missed this, as I was travelling, but an excellent explainer all about GWP* (read GWP-star) from @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @carbonbrief.org
#methane #metrics #climateaction
#methane #metrics #climateaction
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NEW – Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/vmZWYtQ
Read here: buff.ly/vmZWYtQ
Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions - Carbon Brief
A controversial way of measuring how much methane warms the planet has stirred debate in recent years – particularly around assessing the climate impact of livestock farming.
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October 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
NEW – Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/vmZWYtQ
Read here: buff.ly/vmZWYtQ
I’ve spent months looking into GWP* - a way of measuring methane that has been labelled an 'accounting trick' by some and a fairer way to assess methane by others
This Q&A gets into all the science and spats about GWP* and the current situation in places like NZ and Ireland 🐮
buff.ly/vmZWYtQ
This Q&A gets into all the science and spats about GWP* and the current situation in places like NZ and Ireland 🐮
buff.ly/vmZWYtQ
buff.ly
October 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I’ve spent months looking into GWP* - a way of measuring methane that has been labelled an 'accounting trick' by some and a fairer way to assess methane by others
This Q&A gets into all the science and spats about GWP* and the current situation in places like NZ and Ireland 🐮
buff.ly/vmZWYtQ
This Q&A gets into all the science and spats about GWP* and the current situation in places like NZ and Ireland 🐮
buff.ly/vmZWYtQ
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It has been a decade since the Paris Agreement.
And with COP30 in Brazil on the horizon, there have been calls for major reform at the UN climate talks.
We asked 16 experts - including former negotiators and COP veterans - what they think should change at these events.
➡️ buff.ly/JWL8AQN
And with COP30 in Brazil on the horizon, there have been calls for major reform at the UN climate talks.
We asked 16 experts - including former negotiators and COP veterans - what they think should change at these events.
➡️ buff.ly/JWL8AQN
August 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
It has been a decade since the Paris Agreement.
And with COP30 in Brazil on the horizon, there have been calls for major reform at the UN climate talks.
We asked 16 experts - including former negotiators and COP veterans - what they think should change at these events.
➡️ buff.ly/JWL8AQN
And with COP30 in Brazil on the horizon, there have been calls for major reform at the UN climate talks.
We asked 16 experts - including former negotiators and COP veterans - what they think should change at these events.
➡️ buff.ly/JWL8AQN
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NEW ANALYSIS: Wildfires have already scorched a UK-record land area in 2025, double the previous high – and 4x above average
By Orla Dwyer, Ho Woo Nam + Tom Prater
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By Orla Dwyer, Ho Woo Nam + Tom Prater
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August 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
NEW ANALYSIS: Wildfires have already scorched a UK-record land area in 2025, double the previous high – and 4x above average
By Orla Dwyer, Ho Woo Nam + Tom Prater
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By Orla Dwyer, Ho Woo Nam + Tom Prater
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NEW – Revealed: ‘Cali Fund’ for nature still empty as emails show industry hesitation | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @sivathambisetty.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/YaUavl0
Read here: buff.ly/YaUavl0
August 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
NEW – Revealed: ‘Cali Fund’ for nature still empty as emails show industry hesitation | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @sivathambisetty.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/YaUavl0
Read here: buff.ly/YaUavl0
The Cali Fund agreed at COP16 talks last year is still empty 5 months after its launch - despite expectations of first pledges in spring
FOI docs also show that AstraZeneca did not take up an offer to be a "frontrunner" in committing to donate to the fund
www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-cal...
FOI docs also show that AstraZeneca did not take up an offer to be a "frontrunner" in committing to donate to the fund
www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-cal...
August 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The Cali Fund agreed at COP16 talks last year is still empty 5 months after its launch - despite expectations of first pledges in spring
FOI docs also show that AstraZeneca did not take up an offer to be a "frontrunner" in committing to donate to the fund
www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-cal...
FOI docs also show that AstraZeneca did not take up an offer to be a "frontrunner" in committing to donate to the fund
www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-cal...
UK potatoes, South Korean cabbage and west African cocoa are among the foods that became more expensive after weather extremes fuelled by climate change in recent years
www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-16-ti...
www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-16-ti...
July 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
UK potatoes, South Korean cabbage and west African cocoa are among the foods that became more expensive after weather extremes fuelled by climate change in recent years
www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-16-ti...
www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-16-ti...
Amid ongoing Bonn talks and London climate week, Brazil and the UN today began a “global ethical stocktake” to hear from civil society before COP30
Mary Robinson, co-organiser for the Europe discussions, says they talked about climate justice, accountability and the “need to rebuild community”
Mary Robinson, co-organiser for the Europe discussions, says they talked about climate justice, accountability and the “need to rebuild community”
June 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Amid ongoing Bonn talks and London climate week, Brazil and the UN today began a “global ethical stocktake” to hear from civil society before COP30
Mary Robinson, co-organiser for the Europe discussions, says they talked about climate justice, accountability and the “need to rebuild community”
Mary Robinson, co-organiser for the Europe discussions, says they talked about climate justice, accountability and the “need to rebuild community”
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NEW – Glossary: Carbon Brief’s guide to 24 ‘climate-friendly’ farming methods | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @yaninequiroz.bsky.social
🎨 Kerry Ann Cleaver and Tom Pearson
Read here: buff.ly/R9vJYz4
🎨 Kerry Ann Cleaver and Tom Pearson
Read here: buff.ly/R9vJYz4
April 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
NEW – Glossary: Carbon Brief’s guide to 24 ‘climate-friendly’ farming methods | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @yaninequiroz.bsky.social
🎨 Kerry Ann Cleaver and Tom Pearson
Read here: buff.ly/R9vJYz4
🎨 Kerry Ann Cleaver and Tom Pearson
Read here: buff.ly/R9vJYz4
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Today at 3pm (GMT), Carbon Brief is hosting a free webinar on the key outcomes of the resumed COP16 biodiversity talks 🎙️
Featuring our specialist team of food, land and nature journalists who are on the ground in Rome 🇮🇹 or following remotely
Register here ➡️ buff.ly/3D9PH98
Featuring our specialist team of food, land and nature journalists who are on the ground in Rome 🇮🇹 or following remotely
Register here ➡️ buff.ly/3D9PH98
March 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Today at 3pm (GMT), Carbon Brief is hosting a free webinar on the key outcomes of the resumed COP16 biodiversity talks 🎙️
Featuring our specialist team of food, land and nature journalists who are on the ground in Rome 🇮🇹 or following remotely
Register here ➡️ buff.ly/3D9PH98
Featuring our specialist team of food, land and nature journalists who are on the ground in Rome 🇮🇹 or following remotely
Register here ➡️ buff.ly/3D9PH98
What happened at round 2 of COP16 nature talks? 🇮🇹
In the early hours of this morn countries signed off on:
Strategy to raise more money to help conserve biodiversity
Plans to set up a “permanent arrangement” for nature finance
www.carbonbrief.org/cop16-key-ou...
In the early hours of this morn countries signed off on:
Strategy to raise more money to help conserve biodiversity
Plans to set up a “permanent arrangement” for nature finance
www.carbonbrief.org/cop16-key-ou...
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 4:19 PM
What happened at round 2 of COP16 nature talks? 🇮🇹
In the early hours of this morn countries signed off on:
Strategy to raise more money to help conserve biodiversity
Plans to set up a “permanent arrangement” for nature finance
www.carbonbrief.org/cop16-key-ou...
In the early hours of this morn countries signed off on:
Strategy to raise more money to help conserve biodiversity
Plans to set up a “permanent arrangement” for nature finance
www.carbonbrief.org/cop16-key-ou...
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Not a new nature fund just yet, but developing countries get something much bigger, 3 decades in the making: a permanent mechanism for biodiversity finance.
Esp significant in today's geopolitical climate that has cast a cloud over cooperation and hopes for more funding for nature and climate.
Esp significant in today's geopolitical climate that has cast a cloud over cooperation and hopes for more funding for nature and climate.
AND IT IS ADOPTED. #COP16 www.cbd.int/doc/c/1680/7...
February 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Not a new nature fund just yet, but developing countries get something much bigger, 3 decades in the making: a permanent mechanism for biodiversity finance.
Esp significant in today's geopolitical climate that has cast a cloud over cooperation and hopes for more funding for nature and climate.
Esp significant in today's geopolitical climate that has cast a cloud over cooperation and hopes for more funding for nature and climate.
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We're in what should be the final hours of COP16.
And there's new informal text out on 🌱 finance, key to its success.
With inputs from bloc reps, it seems way more coherent than the last draft.
L: 26 Feb draft. www.cbd.int/doc/c/b198/d...
R: Tonight's non-paper. www.cbd.int/doc/c/214f/6...
And there's new informal text out on 🌱 finance, key to its success.
With inputs from bloc reps, it seems way more coherent than the last draft.
L: 26 Feb draft. www.cbd.int/doc/c/b198/d...
R: Tonight's non-paper. www.cbd.int/doc/c/214f/6...
February 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
We're in what should be the final hours of COP16.
And there's new informal text out on 🌱 finance, key to its success.
With inputs from bloc reps, it seems way more coherent than the last draft.
L: 26 Feb draft. www.cbd.int/doc/c/b198/d...
R: Tonight's non-paper. www.cbd.int/doc/c/214f/6...
And there's new informal text out on 🌱 finance, key to its success.
With inputs from bloc reps, it seems way more coherent than the last draft.
L: 26 Feb draft. www.cbd.int/doc/c/b198/d...
R: Tonight's non-paper. www.cbd.int/doc/c/214f/6...
Talks winding to a close tonight at #COP16 round 2
Next round of draft texts are due in an hour, followed by a plenary at 9pm Rome-time that’s supposedly ending at 11pm 🤷♀️
Lots still left to discuss
Next round of draft texts are due in an hour, followed by a plenary at 9pm Rome-time that’s supposedly ending at 11pm 🤷♀️
Lots still left to discuss
February 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Talks winding to a close tonight at #COP16 round 2
Next round of draft texts are due in an hour, followed by a plenary at 9pm Rome-time that’s supposedly ending at 11pm 🤷♀️
Lots still left to discuss
Next round of draft texts are due in an hour, followed by a plenary at 9pm Rome-time that’s supposedly ending at 11pm 🤷♀️
Lots still left to discuss
NEW resource mobilisation draft has arrived at #COP16
More details added to paragraphs 19-25 where the main contentions lie
Countries will go through this revised draft in a plenary meeting starting shortly 🍿
www.cbd.int/doc/c/b198/d...
More details added to paragraphs 19-25 where the main contentions lie
Countries will go through this revised draft in a plenary meeting starting shortly 🍿
www.cbd.int/doc/c/b198/d...
February 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
NEW resource mobilisation draft has arrived at #COP16
More details added to paragraphs 19-25 where the main contentions lie
Countries will go through this revised draft in a plenary meeting starting shortly 🍿
www.cbd.int/doc/c/b198/d...
More details added to paragraphs 19-25 where the main contentions lie
Countries will go through this revised draft in a plenary meeting starting shortly 🍿
www.cbd.int/doc/c/b198/d...
New resource mobilisation draft is due later today at COP16.2 in Rome
A 🧊 metaphor from Susana Muhamad to start out day 2...
Country positions are the "tip of the iceberg", she says, and the reason behind positions is the mass under the surface
Informal chats revealed these reasons last night
A 🧊 metaphor from Susana Muhamad to start out day 2...
Country positions are the "tip of the iceberg", she says, and the reason behind positions is the mass under the surface
Informal chats revealed these reasons last night
February 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
New resource mobilisation draft is due later today at COP16.2 in Rome
A 🧊 metaphor from Susana Muhamad to start out day 2...
Country positions are the "tip of the iceberg", she says, and the reason behind positions is the mass under the surface
Informal chats revealed these reasons last night
A 🧊 metaphor from Susana Muhamad to start out day 2...
Country positions are the "tip of the iceberg", she says, and the reason behind positions is the mass under the surface
Informal chats revealed these reasons last night
🧬 The Cali fund - where companies who use genetic data from nature in their products can send cash - has been officially launched
(This fund was one of the main outcomes of the COP16 talks in Cali)
(This fund was one of the main outcomes of the COP16 talks in Cali)
February 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
🧬 The Cali fund - where companies who use genetic data from nature in their products can send cash - has been officially launched
(This fund was one of the main outcomes of the COP16 talks in Cali)
(This fund was one of the main outcomes of the COP16 talks in Cali)
COP16.2 officially opens 🇮🇹
Susana Muhamad: “We have an important responsibility here in Rome. In 2025, we can send a light globally and be able to say even with our differences, even with our tensions…we are able to collaboratively work together for something that transcends our own interests.”
Susana Muhamad: “We have an important responsibility here in Rome. In 2025, we can send a light globally and be able to say even with our differences, even with our tensions…we are able to collaboratively work together for something that transcends our own interests.”
February 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
COP16.2 officially opens 🇮🇹
Susana Muhamad: “We have an important responsibility here in Rome. In 2025, we can send a light globally and be able to say even with our differences, even with our tensions…we are able to collaboratively work together for something that transcends our own interests.”
Susana Muhamad: “We have an important responsibility here in Rome. In 2025, we can send a light globally and be able to say even with our differences, even with our tensions…we are able to collaboratively work together for something that transcends our own interests.”
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Extreme weather is destroying crops around the world, from hurricanes hitting bananas and yams in Jamaica, to drought ruining maize crops in Myanmar last year.
We mapped a global snapshot of the impacts from media reports for @carbonbrief.org
interactive.carbonbrief.org/crops-extrem... #dataviz
We mapped a global snapshot of the impacts from media reports for @carbonbrief.org
interactive.carbonbrief.org/crops-extrem... #dataviz
February 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Extreme weather is destroying crops around the world, from hurricanes hitting bananas and yams in Jamaica, to drought ruining maize crops in Myanmar last year.
We mapped a global snapshot of the impacts from media reports for @carbonbrief.org
interactive.carbonbrief.org/crops-extrem... #dataviz
We mapped a global snapshot of the impacts from media reports for @carbonbrief.org
interactive.carbonbrief.org/crops-extrem... #dataviz
There is “no alternative to succeeding” at the resumed COP16 talks in Rome, convention on biological diversity chief Astrid Schomaker says
COP16 pres Susana Muhamad also confirms she still has full capacity as Colombia’s environment minister and will preside over the talks
COP16 pres Susana Muhamad also confirms she still has full capacity as Colombia’s environment minister and will preside over the talks
February 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
There is “no alternative to succeeding” at the resumed COP16 talks in Rome, convention on biological diversity chief Astrid Schomaker says
COP16 pres Susana Muhamad also confirms she still has full capacity as Colombia’s environment minister and will preside over the talks
COP16 pres Susana Muhamad also confirms she still has full capacity as Colombia’s environment minister and will preside over the talks
New doc from COP16 pres Susana Muhamad feat. suggestions to ease finance sticking points ahead of the biodiversity talks picking up again next week in Rome
Left shows one part of most recent draft text around a new nature fund proposal, right is Muhamad's suggestion
www.cbd.int/doc/c/7d83/4...
Left shows one part of most recent draft text around a new nature fund proposal, right is Muhamad's suggestion
www.cbd.int/doc/c/7d83/4...
February 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
New doc from COP16 pres Susana Muhamad feat. suggestions to ease finance sticking points ahead of the biodiversity talks picking up again next week in Rome
Left shows one part of most recent draft text around a new nature fund proposal, right is Muhamad's suggestion
www.cbd.int/doc/c/7d83/4...
Left shows one part of most recent draft text around a new nature fund proposal, right is Muhamad's suggestion
www.cbd.int/doc/c/7d83/4...