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Mat Hope

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Mat was DeSmog’s Special Projects and Investigations Editor, and Operations Director for DeSmog UK Ltd. He was DeSmog UK’s Editor from October 2017 to March 2021. He began working with DeSmog as the UK’s Deputy Editor in October 2016, having previously been an editor at Nature Climate Change and analyst at Carbon Brief. He completed his PhD on political communication strategies in US Congressional climate change debates at the University of Bristol in 2012, which won the Hilary Hartley prize as the best thesis in his department’s graduating class. Mat is a member of the National Union of Journalists.

uk/Trump's 'Dirty Secrets' Aired in Channel 4 Documentary on Climate Science Denier Network
ByMat Hope
on

President-elect Trump’s new cabinet is full of people in the pocket of fossil fuel interests, who are set to bring their climate denial agenda to the White House. That was the core message of a Cha...
uk/European Lawmakers Vote to Pursue Tar Sands Oil Friendly Trade Deal with Canada
ByMat Hope
on

EU lawmakers today voted for the European Parliament to push ahead with a trade deal that could encourage Canadian tar sand oil imports and make it easier for energy companies to sue governments wh...
uk/Minister: Brexit and Trump Add 'Complexity' to Climate Plans But Won't Weaken UK's Commitment
ByMat Hope
on

The UK’s decision to leave the EU and the spectre of Donald Trump’s presidency will not stop the government delivering its emissions reduction plans, climate minister Nick Hurd today told MPs. Spe...
uk/Government Increases Petrol Subsidies Despite Phase-Out Pledge
ByMat Hope
on

The government has pledged to phase out fossil fuel subsidies and make clean transport a pillar of its climate action agenda. But new research shows that the UK has actually increased subsidies for...
uk/Greener Car Sales Grew at 10 Times the Rate of Petrol Vehicles in 2016
ByMat Hope
on

Consumers are increasingly turning away from polluting diesel and petrol cars, favouring potentially greener options, new industry data shows. While customers seem ready to switch to cleaner cars,...
uk/Year in Review: 16 Faces Behind the UK’s Climate News in 2016, and One Face for 2017
ByMat Hope
on

The UK ended 2016 with lots of new faces adorning the front pages, along with some more familiar ones. DeSmog UK takes a look at the people behind the major climate and energy stories this year (i...
uk/In Review: 2016 Was Mainly but Not Entirely Bad News for Climate Change
ByMat Hope
on

So, 2016 happened. Fair to say, it wasn’t exactly a vintage year for action on climate change. Brace yourselves, here’s DeSmog UK’s review of the year. It wasn’t all bad! (But mainly it was, let’...
uk/UK Energy Minister Baroness Neville-Rolfe Replaced by Former Steel Executive Lord Prior
ByMat Hope
on

Energy minister and fracking fan Baroness Neville-Rolfe has been shuffled out of her job at the department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). She will be replaced by Lord David Pr...
uk/Has HSBC Accidentally Backed a £600 Million ‘Green’ Scheme to Boost Poland’s Coal?
ByMat Hope
on

Europe’s most fossil-fuelled country, Poland, has just announced a new scheme to finance ‘green’ projects. But analysts are concerned it could be used to bolster the coal industry. Poland became t...
uk/Tory MP's 'Blackout' Warning Report Linked to 55 Tufton Street Climate Denier Network
ByMat Hope
on

A new report from a group chaired by Tory MP Grant Shapps today claimed that the lights could go out next Christmas due to the UK’s commitment to phasing out coal. The analysis has received widespr...