Megan Darby
Megan Darby is the editor of Climate Home News. She previously wrote about UK energy and water industries for leading sector publication Utility Week. She holds a Mathematics degree from Newcastle University.
Record number of environmental activists murdered in 2015
More than three people were killed a week defending their land from mining or logging interests, reports Global Witness
Crib notes: A Brexit from EU climate plans?
As EU environment ministers meet to discuss essential climate plans, the UK heads for a referendum to decide its membership of the bloc once and for all
Weekly wrap: Goodbye 400ppm, hello cheap oil challenge
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Biofuels are good for food security – study
Researchers say demand for energy crops is promoting better land management and can be scaled up sustainably, but campaigners are not convinced
EU environment ministers must fix the carbon market
Environment Council meeting on Monday should be used to demand deeper reform, or risk locking in low ambition for 15 years
Stones show how global warming weathers ancient monuments
Monitoring system is being set up at five historic sites in Ireland, to gauge the effects of changing climate on built heritage
UN aviation talks: time to come down to earth?
The International Civil Aviation Authority is unjustifiably smug about its climate record; it must play its part in efforts to limit warming to 1.5C
Sweden faces climate test as voters oppose brown coal sale
Opinion poll shows half the Swedish population opposes selling Vattenfall’s German mines and power plants to Czech firm EPH
Green bonds must keep the green promise
Robust standards are urgently needed to channel capital debt markets into climate-friendly projects, says WWF France chief Pascal Canfin
President Hollande ratifies Paris climate deal for France
In a ceremony at the Elysee Palace, the French leader called on other EU countries to formally join the UN pact
How will Norway go carbon neutral from 2030?
Oslo will rely on EU or international offsets to meet ambitious goal, while asking little of its domestic oil and gas sector
China’s pandas, flowers threatened by global warming
Researchers scent danger as rising temperatures threaten to eliminate vast amounts of the bamboo vital to panda diets and make flowers less attractive to pollinators
Sustained cheap oil likely to hurt global climate plans
Low oil prices “considerably” hinder transition to greener energy, say IIASA and World Bank analysts, while sustained high prices would give a boost
India coal pathway central to climate challenge – Bloomberg
Analysts expect India’s power sector emissions to treble by 2040, blowing the 2C carbon budget, unless clean energy investment increases
Weekly wrap: Ratification, ratification, ratification
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EU gears up to approve Paris climate agreement
The European Commission has published a proposal to nudge national leaders into action, but the timeline for completing the formalities remains unclear
Iceland geothermal plant turns CO2 into stone
Groundbreaking project shows potential for large scale and permanent storage of carbon dioxide emissions, say scientists
EU energy chiefs favouring fossil fuel lobbyists, says report
Big energy gets the most facetime with commissioners Miguel Arias Canete and Maros Sefcovic, finds Corporate Europe Observatory
French senate formally approves Paris climate deal
The first G7 and G20 member to ratify the UN pact, France needs support from other EU member states to make its contribution count
Nigeria to ratify Paris Agreement in September
Move by sub-Saharan Africa’s largest economy increases chance the UN climate pact could enter into force this year