Carbon Brief

Carbon Brief is a UK-based website[3][4] designed to "improve the understanding of climate change, both in terms of the science and the policy response". Leo Hickman is the director and editor for Carbon Brief.[5] Carbon Brief's climate-and-energy coverage is often cited by news outlets, or climate related websites, i.e. YALE Climate Communications highlighted a summary of climate model projections,[6] a 2011 The Guardian article quoted then-editor Christian Hunt,[7] in 2017 The New York Times cited climate scientist Zeke Hausfather,[8] or in 2018 MIT Technology Review cited an analysis on emissions scenarios.[9]

Carbon Brief
Type of site
Climate and energy
Available inEnglish
URLwww.carbonbrief.org
Alexa rank 138,287 (August 2018)[1]
LaunchedDecember 6, 2010 (2010-12-06)[2]
Current statusActive

Founding

Carbon Brief is funded by the European Climate Foundation, and has their office located in London. The website was established in response to the Climategate controversy.[10]

Reception

The New York Times climate team's newsletter in May 2018 highlighted a CarbonBrief article about solar climate engineering, as insightful.[11]

Awards

The Royal Statistical Society gave Carbon Brief a Highly Commended award for investigative journalism in 2018, for the in 2017 published article, Mapped: How UK foreign aid is spent on climate change, authored by Leo Hickman and Rosamund Pearce.[12] In 2017, Carbon Brief won The Drum Online Media Award for "Best Specialist Site for Journalism".[13]

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