Editorial standards

Named thesis. Every piece argues a specific structural finding. We name the antagonist register (what conventional coverage misses) and the protagonist register (what the bifurcation reader sees).

Multi-source spine. Minimum four-source-layer coverage: primary regulatory, market quantitative, expert analytical, and cross-jurisdictional comparator.

Specific evidentiary anchors. Dates, figures, named actors, named instruments. No abstract framing.

Story arc. Pieces are structured around 5 numbered moves (Case Studies, Playbooks, Practitioner's Guides), 5 findings (Data Reads), or an argued spine (Opinion).

House style. British English; no em dashes or en dashes; humanised analytical prose.

Length

Case Study / Playbook / Data Read: 2,800 to 3,500 words. Practitioner's Guide: 2,300 to 2,500 words. Opinion: 1,800 to 2,200 words.

Image generation

Editorial illustrations are AI-generated using FLUX.1-dev hosted on NVIDIA NIM. Each illustration has a documented brief, a visual composition vocabulary calibrated to the publication's register (pure white background, monochrome ink palette, flat vector style), and explicit subject prompts. All AI-generated images carry attribution sidecars documenting the model, prompt, and generation parameters. See the credits page for the full image-generation disclosure.

Source policy

Every primary regulatory document, market dataset, and expert analytical source is cited inline with a direct link. Paywalled sources (FT, Reuters, Bloomberg, WSJ) are read for editorial direction but never republished, summarised, or AI-reworded. The Climate Brief's reporting stands on freely-accessible primary documents.

Corrections

See Corrections for our correction policy. Material factual errors get a named correction at the bottom of the piece plus a dated entry on the Corrections page.