Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn is a former Coins2Day editor based in London. She covered the intersection between business, energy, and climate change for Coins2Day. Originally from the oil town of Calgary, Alberta, she got her start covering crime and city news at the Toronto Star during the heyday of former mayor Rob Ford and has since covered everything from architecture to cocoa markets. Before joining Coins2Day in 2019, she worked at Maclean’s, the Wall Street Journal, and S&P Global Platts’ oil pricing team. She is a graduate of Carleton University, City University London, and the Danish School of Journalism.

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  • ZHOUSHAN, CHINA – NOVEMBER 24, 2021 – An aerial photo taken on November 24, 2021 shows wind turbines rotating under sea breeze at a wind farm in Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province, China. (Photo credit should read Zou Xunyong / Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)Newsletters

    China expected to reach renewable power target 4 years ahead of schedule, IEA says

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  • A man who sell tomatoes/onions pose for a portrait at Mile 12 market in Lagos, food prices remain high despite drop in inflation rate to 17.93% in May 2021, on July 7, 2021. The World Bank said the countrys surging inflation and rising prices had pushed an estimated seven million Nigerians below poverty line in 2020. This rise in the food index was caused by increases in prices of Bread, Cereals, Milk, Cheese, Eggs, Fish, Soft drinks, Coffee, Tea and Cocoa, Fruits, Meat, Oils and fats, and Vegetables. (Photo by Olukayode Jaiyeola/NurPhoto via Getty Images)International

    Food prices are already at a 10-year high. There’s no relief coming in 2022, a grim new report says

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  • A traveler walks past a flight information panel in the departure hall at Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong, China, on Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. Airlines face a return to the uncertainty of shifting rules and public-health developments that threw customer plans into chaos and undermined demand earlier in the pandemic. Photographer: Chan Long Hei/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesHealth

    Holiday travel plans are in limbo as a growing list of countries introduce bans designed to stop the Omicron variant

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  • Chief Executive Officer of IKEA group Jesper Brodin gives a press conference to announce the company’s worldwide results on October 10, 2018 in Madrid. (Photo by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) (Photo by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP via Getty Images)Retail

    Not just meatballs and DIY furniture: Ikea could be your next renewable energy supplier

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  • CEO and Chairman of the Bank of America Brian MoynihanNewsletters

    Bank of America’s CEO has a message for governments on carbon markets: ‘Give us a price’

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  • LISBON, PORTUGAL – NOVEMBER 02: CEO of Royal Dutch Shell Ben van Beurden speaks about “Energy transition was never going to be easy” at Altice Arena on the second day of 2021 Web Summit on November 02, 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal. The tech event returned to an in-person format this year, subject to some constraints and limited to 40,000 participants, after the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic forced it to go virtual in 2020. It welcomes more than two thousand start-ups, a thousand investors, and more than 700 speakers. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Getty Images)

    Shell’s decision to leave the Netherlands is about keeping investors on its side in difficult times

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  • TOPSHOT – US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry arrives on stage to deliver a speech during for a meeting, as part of the World Leaders’ Summit of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, on November 2, 2021. – World leaders meeting at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow will issue a multibillion-dollar pledge to end deforestation by 2030 but that date is too distant for campaigners who want action sooner to save the planet’s lungs. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)Environment

    From a carbon market to a coal ‘phase down,’ here are the 8 key takeaways from COP26

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  • Men clean windows on the Bank of China Tower in the Central district of Hong Kong, China, on Wednesday, May 14, 2014. Hong Kong is scheduled to release first-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) data on May 16. Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesReal Estate

    Buildings not retrofit for net zero face a looming ‘brown discount’ as real estate goes green

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  • A man walks through the empty main room in the OVO Hydro building on day thirteen of the COP26 at SECC on November 12, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland.Newsletters

    After COP26, businesses can expect things to start changing very quickly

    By Katherine Dunn and David Meyer
  • LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – JANUARY 06: Impossible Pork Char Siu Buns are sampled during an Impossible Foods press event for CES 2020 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on January 6, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world’s largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs January 7-10 and features about 4,500 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to more than 170,000 attendees. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images)Environment

    Impossible Foods wants to be ‘everywhere.’ First it has to get into China

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  • China's special climate envoy, Xie Zhenhua speaks during a joint China and US statement on a declaration at COP26Environment

    U.S. and China put aside differences to push for joint climate action at COP26

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  • 08 November 2021, United Kingdom, Glasgow: People protest for better climate protection on the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow. A banner reads “No more blah blah blah.” (No more blah blah). For two weeks in Glasgow, around 200 countries are wrestling with how the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees compared to pre-industrial times can still be achieved. Photo: Christoph Soeder/dpa (Photo by Christoph Soeder/picture alliance via Getty Images)Environment

    As COP26 winds down, it struggles to be remembered more for real progress than for Greta Thunberg’s ‘Blah, blah, blah’

    By Katherine Dunn and Sophie Mellor
  • MADRID, SPAIN – JANUARY 31: President of Iberdrola Jose Ignacio Sanchez Galan attend the Ibedrola Foundation Scholarships on January 31, 2019 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Paolo Blocco/WireImage)

    One of the biggest obstacles to America’s energy transition is its woeful power grid, says Iberdrola CEO

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  • Greta Thunberg COP26Environment

    Climate protests begin after Greta Thunberg dubs COP26 a ‘failure,’ but week one saw signs of progress

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  • Fresh tomatoes sit on display for sale on a stall at Toi market in Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday, May 26, 2020. Kenya plans to spend 53.7 billion shillings ($503 million) on a stimulus package to support businesses that have been hit by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the National Treasury. Photographer: Patrick Meinhardt/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    ‘I’m afraid we’re going to have a food crisis’: The energy crunch has made fertilizer too expensive to produce, says Yara CEO

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