Carbon Brief

Carbon Brief is a UK-based website 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.

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.

Reception

Carbon Brief's climate-and-energy coverage is often cited by news outlets and climate related websites.

Awards

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, 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 Leo Hickman was named 2020 Editor of the Year by the Association of British Science Writers. The judges commented: