Carbon Brief is a UK-based website specialising in the science and policy of

climate change In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...

. It has won awards for investigative journalism and data visualisation.

Leo Hickman Leo Hickman is a journalist specialising in climate change and has been the editor and director of CarbonBrief since 2015. Previously, he was a feature journalism, features journalist and editor with ''The Guardian'' from 1997 to 2013. From Sept ...

is the director and editor for Carbon Brief.

Founding

Carbon Brief is funded by the

European Climate Foundation The European Climate Foundation (ECF) is an independent philanthropic initiative working to help tackle the climate crisis by fostering the development of a net zero emissions society at the national, European and global level. Its aim is to pro ...

, and has their office located in

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

. The website was established in response to the

Climategate controversy The Climatic Research Unit email controversy (also known as "Climategate") began in November 2009 with the hack (computer security), hacking of a server at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) by an external ...

Reception

The New York Times climate team's newsletter in May 2018 highlighted a CarbonBrief article about solar climate engineering, as insightful. Carbon Brief's climate-and-energy coverage is often cited by news outlets, or climate related websites.

YALE Climate Communications The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC) is a research center within the Yale School of the Environment that conducts scientific research on public climate change knowledge, attitudes, policy preferences, and behavior at the global, ...

highlighted a summary of climate model projections, a 2011

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...

article quoted then-editor Christian Hunt, in 2017

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

cited climate scientist Zeke Hausfather, and in 2018

MIT Technology Review ''MIT Technology Review'' is a bimonthly magazine wholly owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and editorially independent of the university. It was founded in 1899 as ''The Technology Review'', and was re-launched without "The" in ...

cited an analysis on emissions scenarios.

Awards

The

Royal Statistical Society The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is an established statistical society. It has three main roles: a British learned society for statistics, a professional body for statisticians and a charity which promotes statistics for the public good. ...

gave Carbon Brief a ''Highly Commended'' award for investigative journalism in 2018, for the article ''Mapped: How UK foreign aid is spent on climate change'', authored by Leo Hickman and Rosamund Pearce, and in 2020 in the category data visualisation for ''How the UK transformed its electricity supply in just a decade''. In 2017, Carbon Brief won ''The Drum Online Media Award'' for "Best Specialist Site for Journalism". Carbon Brief's editor

was named 2020 ''Editor of the Year'' by the

Association of British Science Writers The Association of British Science Writers (ABSW) is the UK society for science writers, science journalists and science communicators. Founded in 1947, the ABSW exists to help those who write about science and technology, and to improve the sta ...

. The judges commented:

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Companies based in the London Borough of Southwark British science websites Climate change blogs British environmental websites Internet properties established in 2010

Founding

Reception

Awards

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