All articles by Katie Kouchakji

Katie Kouchakji

@carbonqueen79

Katie Kouchakji is an Auckland-based freelance journalist, specialising in climate change policy and the low-carbon transition. She has been writing about energy and climate change for over 15 years, including for Environmental Finance, Carbon Pulse, the International Bar Association and FORESIGHT.

The climate is changing faster than we are

A succession of hottest-day records smashed, then smashed again. Flooding in the north-east of the US, Pakistan and southern Japan.…
Opinion: US Supreme Court EPA ruling hamstrings domestic climate action – but what about the rest of the world?

It’s a sad state of affairs that the US Supreme Court’s ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…
Australia gets serious on climate action

Many said this year’s federal election in Australia could herald the end of the country’s bitter climate wars – particularly…
COP27: A little less conversation, a little more action, please

November 2022, and the world’s governments have finally agreed to establish a funding mechanism for loss and damage to assist…
Australia gets serious on climate action

Many said this year’s federal election in Australia could herald the end of the country’s bitter climate wars – particularly…

Record profits give oil majors an opportunity to invest in the energy transition. They’re blowing it.

Like a lot of people, I was horrified when Shell’s second-quarter results hit my inbox last week – $11.5bn in…
US Supreme Court EPA ruling hamstrings domestic climate action – but what about the rest of the world?

It’s a sad state of affairs that the US Supreme Court’s ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…
The end of Australia’s climate wars?

Australia is unique as a country rife with opportunity and resources to be a leader in a low-carbon economy –…
The climate risk for hydropower

Hydropower has been an affordable energy technology for years, and accounts for more output than all other renewable power sources…
Do renewables need carbon markets?

Over the past ten years the cost of renewable energy technologies has plunged and today, renewables are outcompeting even the…