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Damian Kahya’s Biography

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Trained in Cardiff (UK) and Columbia (New York). Former BBC foreign correspondent and energy journalist for TV, Online & Radio. Now editor of Greenpeace's Energydesk editorially independent global energy and climate news site.

Damian Kahya’s Journalist Portfolio

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How we stopped talking about climate and why that's a problem

How we stopped talking about climate and why that's a problem

Barack Obama's been talking a lot about climate lately. After using World Earth Day to warn about the impact …

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Leaked: EU climate and energy policy documents - Energydesk

Leaked: EU climate and energy policy documents - Energydesk

The future of the EU's climate and energy policy is - only slightly - clearer this evening as Energydesk obta…

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5 graphs showing what you need to know about renewables investments - Energydesk

5 graphs showing what you need to know about renewables investments - Energydesk

Surges of investment in solar in China and the US, and in offshore wind in Europe, led to a 16% increase in c…

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How the UK ended up giving coal plants £300m a year

How the UK ended up giving coal plants £300m a year

The government has agreed to commit £960m of bill-payers money a year to special payments designed to ensure …

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EU infrastructure funds could go to Polish coal mines

EU infrastructure funds could go to Polish coal mines

The EU's new infrastructure plan could include new coal mines in Poland and eastern Europe, according to an a…

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Q&A: Has EON really just ditched fossil fuels to go renewable? - Energydesk

Q&A: Has EON really just ditched fossil fuels to go renewable? - Energydesk

EON has become the first big six energy company to ditch fossil fuels - sort of. Late last night news broke t…

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Articles

How Nigel Farage could make millions from a company betting on net zero

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Nigel Farage at a conservative rally in the United States in 2020. His involvement with DGB was first reported last year. Photo: Samuel Corum/Getty Latest: Investigations Nigel Farage could make 18.5m Euros from share options he holds in a carbon offsetting company that says it disagrees with his recent comments on net zero.
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The Ukraine energy sanction loophole and the climate crisis

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What to say? I never met my grandfather on my father’s side. But in the 1920’s, the family story goes, Stalin’s men came to my grandfather’s house in Crimea to count the number of rooms. It was just a few years after the end of the last Ukraine-Russia conflict. The young Samuel packed up some of his belongings and walked. All the way to Turkey – changing his name subtly as he entered. Like millions of Europeans, I thought that kind of thing would help my children to understand our history in school.
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Leaked documents: Nations pushback against offsetting “greenwash” claim

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Some of the countries which pushed for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to weaken its language on a fossil fuel phase-out also challenged the scientific assessments that carbon trading may result in smaller reductions in emissions than claimed.
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Interview

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What was your first job as a journalist?

Investigations for the student newspaper. If that doesn't count, reporting on corruption in Cambodia.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. It's annoying.

How is social media changing news?

It breaks the monopoly of newspapers on journalism.