In brief | 14 January '26
Carbon Brief: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2025
Top 10 include research into declining butterflies, heat-related deaths, sugar intake and the massive loss of ice from the world’s glaciers.
Politico: Global warming reaches 1.4°C after third-hottest year on record
The world is rapidly closing in on the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming limit that serves as a threshold for ever more dangerous climate change, European scientists have warned.
Bloomberg: JPMorgan warns of ‘more volatility’ facing energy transition
Transition is “still going to happen, but it will be more elongated than we thought previously”.
Plos Climate: Europe’s competitive edge: Industrial energy efficiency as a structural game-changer
Energy efficiency is a core driver of competitiveness—boosting productivity, security & decarbonisation.
Bloomberg: Germany’s $1.2 trillion debt bazooka is veering off target
Bloomberg columnist starts to doubt whether the spending splurge will deliver an enduring economic recovery.
The New York Times: Danish wind farm developer scrambles to salvage US projects
Orsted’s CEO says it plans to move quickly to complete a 6.2 billion US dollar wind farm after a judge struck down President Trump’s bid to halt it.
Bloomberg: Data centers and coal helped drive up US emissions in 2025
The country’s greenhouse gas emissions grew by an estimated 2.4 percent, reversing the downward trend of the previous two years.
Reuters: BP flags up to $5 billion in low-carbon energy impairments
Company redirects spending to oil and gas.
