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.Maersk, Cargill back faster shipping emissions cuts
NEWS: Global fleet should be improving fuel efficiency 20% a decade says coalition of 15 companies, urging UN regulator to set targets
OECD rejects EU industry’s carbon leakage arguments
NEWS: Tough climate rules have little impact on export competitiveness, find economists, so industry carve-outs are not justified
US youth take climate fight to Oregon courthouse
INTERVIEW: 19-year-old Kelsey Juliana tells Climate Home why she is taking on the government and fossil fuel interests
Is Brussels killing the Paris climate dream?
COMMENT: EU plans lock in weak ambition to 2030, undermining the review mechanism it fought for in December’s UN agreement
Why reframing climate policy is a waste of time
NEWS: Stressing the health, economic or social co-benefits of measures to cut global warming risk doesn’t increase public support, study finds
Darkening Greenland ice sheet melts faster
NEWS: Soot and re-frozen ice makes snowpack less reflective, in feedback loop that could accelerate sea level rise
Scientists trash ‘myths’ of green aviation technology
NEWS: Don’t believe the hype, say reseachers: the industry’s miracle solutions aren’t addressing the climate impact of flying
No shortage of storage space for captured CO2, study finds
NEWS: China, North America, Europe’s North Sea and Australia have some of the best understood geological sites, says Global CCS Institute
Germany, Austria call for higher EU 2030 climate ambition
NEWS: Environment ministers criticise ‘very weak’ European Commission response to Paris climate pact – but other states defend existing target
Meet the investors pushing climate reality on carbon majors
ANALYSIS: Through shareholder resolutions, the Aiming for A coalition is getting coal, oil and gas companies to face up to global warming
Nanotechnology trial shows route to carbon negative cars
NEWS: Carbon dioxide can be used to make batteries for electric vehicles, US scientists have shown
Alarm as DR Congo considers opening rainforest to loggers
NEWS: NGOs warn Kinshasa proposal threatens world’s second largest tropical forest, undermining climate commitments
EU plans no change to climate target before 2030
NEWS: Weak Commission proposal undermines Paris deal and hard-won trust of vulnerable countries, campaigners warn
Reviving Hercules: Can carbon capture give British industry a future?
LONG READ: Megan Darby travels to Teesside, where locals hope a surge in green investment can save the region’s ailing industrial base
Ocean acidification is slowing coral reef growth – study
NEWS: Experiments in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef show destructive impact of carbon dioxide dissolved in seawater
100 ‘fire-free villages’ take on Indonesia’s haze hazard
NEWS: After 2015’s devastating fire season, local authorities in South Sumatra are determined to end slash-and-burn and restore peatland
Canada ‘out of step’ as global clean investment soared in 2015
NEWS: Renewables attracted US$367 billion of investment worldwide despite low fossil fuel prices, but Canada bucked growth trend
Billionaire Warren Buffett-ed by winds of climate change
CRIB NOTES 29 FEB – 4 MAR: FSB flags climate risk, Buffett gives a prime example, US gears up for Super Tuesday and island states lead Paris ratification push
Ontario a bright spot in weak carbon market outlook
NEWS: Canadian province plans to introduce emissions trading contrast with backsliding in Kazakhstan and South Korea
Don’t celebrate yet: Why China’s green shift could face delays
ANALYSIS: A sharp economic downturn could see Beijing revert to tried-and-tested brown industry, slowing climate gains