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.
Low prices raise concerns for China carbon market
ANALYSIS: Seven pilot schemes are swamped with pollution permits, analysts say, boding ill for national roll-out of mammoth climate policy
Canadian rapper crowdfunds climate change hip-hop album
NEWS: Baba Brinkman, who performed a musical interpretation of Pope Francis’ encyclical at the Paris summit, is trying to raise US$10,000
Australia, Japan, US coal burners face ‘utility death spiral’
NEWS: Old power generators are losing market share to wind and solar, say Oxford University analysts, in environmental risk report for investors
UK top 10 climate claims, unpicked
ANALYSIS: Energy and climate chief Amber Rudd is on the defensive after an influential business lobby criticised government policy. We look at the facts
Shell shareholders vote for BG merger, quashing climate concerns
NEWS: Oil major insists its assets will not be stranded by greenhouse gas emissions curbs, against protests £40bn deal is overvalued
Did Spain’s US conquest trigger a ‘little ice age’?
NEWS: Missionaries caused Native American populations to crash in 1600s, prompting regrowth of carbon-sucking forests, researchers find
A bridge to where? Gulf states in denial over climate goals
ANALYSIS: Saudi Arabia plans to ramp up clean energy investment and Qatar touts gas as a transition fuel, but officials struggle to see the fossil-free endgame
Solar panel costs set to fall 10% a year
NEWS: Power from the sun could supply 20% of energy worldwide by 2027 on current technology trends, say UK researchers
21st century warm streak ‘almost certainly’ human caused
NEWS: Chances of record-breaking heat happening without emissions from burning fossil fuels are 1 in 5000 or less, scientists calculate
‘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