| Carbon Brief | |
| Type: | Climate and energy |
| Language: | English |
| Current Status: | Active |
| Launched: | [1] |
Carbon Brief is a UK-based website[2] [3] specialising in the science and policy of climate change. It has won awards for investigative journalism and data visualisation. Leo Hickman is the director and editor for Carbon Brief.[4]
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.[5]
The New York Times climate team's newsletter in May 2018 highlighted a CarbonBrief article about solar climate engineering, as insightful.[6]
Carbon Brief's climate-and-energy coverage is often cited by news outlets, or climate related websites. YALE Climate Communications highlighted a summary of climate model projections,[7] a 2011 The Guardian article quoted then-editor Christian Hunt,[8] in 2017 The New York Times cited climate scientist Zeke Hausfather,[9] and in 2018 MIT Technology Review cited an analysis on emissions scenarios.[10]
The Royal Statistical Society 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,[11] and in 2020 in the category data visualisation for How the UK transformed its electricity supply in just a decade.[12] In 2017, Carbon Brief won The Drum Online Media Award for "Best Specialist Site for Journalism".[13]
Carbon Brief's editor Leo Hickman was named 2020 Editor of the Year by the Association of British Science Writers.[14] The judges commented: