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.‘El Nino will fade, but climate change will be with us for decades’
NEWS: UN’s top weather and climate scientist urges governments to prepare for warming impacts after 2015’s record heat
Greenpeace prepares legal challenge to Norway’s Arctic frontier
NEWS: As investors in Davos tout $1trn investment opportunity in thawing ocean, climate lawyers are gearing up for a courtroom battle
Armed ships embark on secretive plutonium mission
NEWS: Consignment from Japan to the US highlights hidden cost and security risk of growing nuclear waste stockpile
Bloomberg unveils crack team to assess global climate risk
NEWS: Experts from Unilever, Axa, Blackrock and JPMorgan among those chosen to rate threat posed by fossil fuel giants to global economy
Catholics back children’s climate lawsuit against US government
NEWS: Faith networks cite Pope Francis encyclical in support of youth call for stronger federal carbon-cutting action
CCS axe jeopardises UK climate policy, lawmakers hear
NEWS: Pulling the plug on carbon capture competition throws emissions targets into question, industry experts warn
Global warming passed 1C in 2015 – UK Met Office
NEWS: US agencies NASA and NOAA independently confirm last year as the warmest on record, as El Nino heightens impact of human-caused climate change
China coal decline continued in 2015 – official data
NEWS: World’s biggest emitter may have peaked dirty fuel use, analysts say, as clean energy bucks slowdown in economic growth
Bangladesh Bank launches $200m ‘green transformation fund’
NEWS: Following successful solar homes microfinance push, governor Atiur Rahman seeks to clean up textiles manufacturing
Shareholder activists target ExxonMobil on 2C climate risk
NEWS: New York state and the Church of England lead push for US oil giant to reveal how shift to low carbon energy hits its business
Barclays: China key to closing global emissions gap
NEWS: More than a third of greenhouse gases above a 2C pathway to 2030 are under Beijing’s control, say analysts
Sheikh Mohammed eyes oil-free future for UAE
NEWS: Emir of Dubai to hold ministerial retreat on diversifying economy away from hydrocarbons, citing sustainability concerns
From Abu Dhabi to Davos, climate change tops agenda
CRIB NOTES 18-24 Jan: IRENA summit touts renewable future, Taiwan gets first woman president, global elites head to World Economic Forum
Weekly wrap: Obama kicks coal sector while it’s down
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Obama blocks new coal mines on public land
UPDATED: US Department of the Interior announces moratorium on leases while overhauling system to reflect climate cost of extracting fossil fuels
Beyond polar bears: Why climate images matter
COMMENT: The iconography of global warming is stuck in a rut. New research can help get the climate story across visually
Taiwan election points to nuclear phase-out by 2023
NEWS: Ing-wen Tsai, who leads the presidential polls, envisions a ‘nuclear-free homeland’ with a bigger role for energy efficiency and renewables
Climate communicators told: Don’t use protest pictures
NEWS: Most people don’t identify with environmentalists, surveys show, so react cynically to images of demonstrations
Cameron: Criticism of UK climate policy is ‘nonsense’
NEWS: British prime minister dismisses concerns raised by investors, businesses and Al Gore about bonfire of green regulations
IMF calls for carbon levy on ships and planes
NEWS: Influential financial body estimates US$30 a tonne tax on emissions from international transport could have raised $25 billion in 2014