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.
Arctic climate summit: Do leaders love their children enough?
COMMENT: President Obama spoke of his daughters at the Glacier meeting in Alaska, but it was a cab driver whose words hit home
Former UN climate chief criticises Paris summit plans
NEWS: Yvo de Boer questions the French presidency approach of inviting world leaders to launch the two-week conference
Arctic summit and interim talks heat up climate agenda
CRIB NOTES 31 AUG – 4 SEP: US president Barack Obama heads to Alaska, while climate negotiators meet in Bonn
Seven things to know about Monday’s Arctic climate summit
BLOG: US president Barack Obama is heading to the Glacier meet in Alaska on Monday, but what is it and why does it matter?
Quiz: Food, farming and climate change
QUIZ: Test your knowledge of the environmental impact of food around the world
Weekly wrap: Bonn briefing, food and farming
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Climate negotiators urged to up pace at Bonn session
ANALYSIS: As politicians converge on substantive issues, interim talks next week must address the legal structure of a global deal
EU should pressure Western Balkans to phase out coal – report
NEWS: As leaders meet in Vienna to discuss closer cooperation, they must address the energy transition, argues CAN Europe
Farmers on four continents tell their climate change stories
BLOG: From Cuzco to Andhra Pradesh, crop growers and livestock owners are feeling the impacts of shifting weather patterns
NASA: Sea level rise is accelerating as ice melts
NEWS: Scientists form new team to address big uncertainties in the pace of future changes to ice sheets and the ocean
What does China’s Black Monday mean for the climate?
NEWS: Shanghai stock market crash will have rippling impacts on emissions, the green economy and Paris negotiations
US Navy invests in world’s largest solar farm
NEWS: Mesquite 210MW project soon to be overtaken by Indian and Chinese mega-arrays, as cheap solar panels compete with coal
Why restoring degraded land is crucial to the climate
COMMENT: A new fund is aiming to cut emissions from bad land management and improve food, energy and water security
Philippines is excluding vulnerable voices from climate consultation
COMMENT: Government is ignoring the people hardest hit by global warming with an unambitious and insincere national pledge
Peruvian relatives of murdered forest defenders win land title
NEWS: A year after four Ashéninka men were killed by illegal loggers, their community has secured rights to the territory
8 ways to cut the carbon footprint of your dinner
BLOG: From farm to plate, food accounts for up to a third of global emissions – so how can you limit the impact?
Hi-res models capture West Antarctic ice melt danger
NEWS: Precision mapping of melting glaciers can help predict potentially calamitous effects on sea levels, say scientists
Financial gatekeepers are blocking green investment – study
NEWS: Pension funds and investment consultants are passive on climate risk and locked into short-termism, say researchers
Russia, Ukraine dodgy carbon offsets cost the climate – study
NEWS: UN-backed scheme increased greenhouse gas emissions by 600Mt CO2e, researchers have found, due to accounting flaws
Weekly wrap: Coal, coal, coal… and Islam
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