Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed, an essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change.

Scientists are the most trusted source of information for climate change in some of the largest global-south countries, ...

Four common talking points surrounding China’s ongoing coal-power expansion and how and why the current wave of new projects ...

Observations reveal that Arctic sea ice extent at the end of summer has halved, since satellite records began in the late 1970s.

GRID PRESSURES: Iraq suffered a “near nationwide blackout” as elevated power demand – due to extreme temperatures of around 50C – triggered a transmission line failure, Bloomberg reported.

Bloomberg covers new satellite estimates from the Copernicus space programme showing that Europe’s wildfires are the largest since 2006. The Associated Press reports that “dangerous heat” will arrive ...

More than 150 people are missing after “devastating” flooding in northern Pakistan, the Associated Press reports. The newswire adds: “A changing climate has made residents of northern Pakistan’s river ...

There is widespread coverage of the latest failure of talks to agree the world's first legally binding treaty to tackle plastic pollution.

Carbon Brief handpicks and explains the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight.