Elizabeth Meager
Elizabeth Meager connects climate and sustainability policy with the legal, regulatory and reporting frameworks that shape corporate behaviour. She is deputy editor at Sustainable Views, an ESG-focused intelligence service within the Financial Times Group, where she leads coverage at the intersection of environmental issues, financial regulation and corporate governance. Her reporting draws on a decade of work on financial law and regulation and centres on how climate and sustainability developments in the US and UK translate into practical obligations and risks for companies and investors.
Climate policy and sustainability in the US and UK
Meager’s coverage of climate and sustainability policy concentrates on how shifts in US and UK politics and regulation filter through to corporate strategy. She has examined energy and climate policy in the United States, including how partisan divisions affect the pace and direction of the energy transition and where there is still room for bipartisan action. In podcast discussions with policy figures, she probes why elected officials, particularly Republicans, have become quieter on climate change and what that means for businesses confronting rising energy demand from AI and data centres. Her work on the early months of Donald Trump’s presidency tracks how federal-level changes reframed environmental policy and the Environmental Protection Agency, and how resistance could emerge from state governments and international agreements. She also follows the evolving role of corporate responsibility in this policy context, looking at how companies recalibrate sustainability commitments as political and regulatory uncertainty grows.
ESG rules, corporate reporting and transition planning
A core strand of Meager’s work is explaining ESG rules and corporate reporting requirements to a specialist audience. She contributes to coverage of what companies and investors need to know about fast-moving ESG regulation, spelling out how new rules affect disclosures, investment strategies and boardroom priorities.
Her analysis of corporate reporting highlights that it still concentrates largely on climate impacts and emissions, and explores how the role of the sustainability officer is changing as expectations around data, transparency and accountability increase. Meager’s reporting on forward-looking transition plans and UK misrepresentation law examines how detailed climate transition strategies interact with legal liability, arguing that credible plans can distinguish genuine ambition from greenwashing while still sitting within existing legal safeguards.
Her editor’s note on the consolidation of two major carbon accounting standards reflects the same focus: she is interested in how technical standard-setting decisions reshape the way companies measure and communicate their environmental impact.
Climate-based legal, reputational and financial risks
Meager consistently approaches sustainability through the lens of legal, reputational and financial risk.
In coverage of climate-based legal risks and climate litigation, she looks at why lawsuits against companies are increasing, what kinds of claims are being brought, and how they influence corporate disclosure, governance and risk management. She has discussed climate litigation trends with colleagues on the Sustainable Views podcast, linking court cases to wider shifts in investor expectations and regulatory enforcement.
Her work on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) explains why these chemicals have become a focus for regulators in the EU, UK and US, outlining tightening rules, legal action against manufacturers and the financial exposures companies face as remediation and liability costs mount.
She also examines reputation risk in a politicised business environment, exploring how legal and political pressures are reshaping corporate decision-making and why some companies have stepped back from public positions on contentious social and environmental issues. Across these topics, she treats sustainability as a risk discipline, paying close attention to how environmental commitments intersect with litigation, regulation and capital markets.
Events, diplomacy and the sustainability agenda
Beyond rules and risks, Meager follows the major events and diplomatic processes that set the tone for corporate sustainability. She has reported from New York Climate Week, distilling its key themes and highlighting implementation gaps, financing challenges and the difficult US political climate around environmental and energy policy. In coverage previewing COP30, she focuses on what is at stake for governments and businesses as countries assess progress since the Paris Agreement and test whether they remain on track for 2030 climate goals.
She links summit conversations on ambition and finance back to the realities of corporate reporting, transition planning and investment decisions. Her participation in episodes dissecting a dramatic AGM season shows the same approach at company level, tracing how investors use shareholder meetings and votes to pressure boards on climate strategy, ESG performance and wider sustainability practice.
Across these event-focused pieces, she situates daily corporate and regulatory stories within a broader diplomatic and market narrative, showing how global climate politics frame the environment work that executives and sustainability professionals do.
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Abby Wallace
Abby Wallace covers where energy, climate and politics meet, with a focus on how net zero, power markets and extreme weather affect people and institutions. She is an energy and climate reporter at POLITICO, covering U.K. energy policy, climate targets and the transition from fossil fuels. Her subjects include government and opposition debates over net zero, decarbonization, support schemes, infrastructure, public spending and climate adaptation. She also reports on energy companies, household bills, labor standards, supply chains and corporate accountability. Her work connects technical policy choices to jobs, competitiveness, public services and voter sentiment. She uses polling, expert voices and political analysis to examine public attitudes and government response to extreme weather. Before POLITICO, she worked on the companies desk at the Financial Times and the business news desk at Insider. She has also freelanced on politics, business and climate.
Adam Fulton
Adam Fulton is a digital news producer focused on fast-moving global stories where environment, conflict and politics meet. He works on the Guardian’s Australian operation, using rolling live blogs to cover geopolitical crises, climate-linked disasters and wars with clear structure and context. His Middle East coverage, including the Gaza peace plan, tracks tension between political messaging and on-the-ground realities, tying leaders’ statements to military movements, diplomatic reactions and humanitarian reports. His disaster reporting, such as on Nepal–Tibet floods, links rising tolls and missing people to infrastructure damage, rescue strain and cascading environmental threats. His Ukraine war blogs treat resource scarcity, especially water and energy, as strategic factors and track how infrastructure damage shapes the conflict. A former entertainment and arts reporter and senior editor at major Australian newspapers, he applies careful pacing and narrative arcs to collaborative, time-stamped live coverage.
Alec Luhn
Alec Luhn is an environment reporter whose work follows climate change at its extremes, frontiers and human consequences, often reporting directly from places where warming, instability and displacement intersect. He covers climate, conflict and migration, showing how abstract climate trends turn into risks for communities, infrastructure, health and preparedness. He reports for New Scientist on climate breakdown, extreme events, El Niño, limits of models, melting glaciers, warming seas and adaptation to heat, mixing scientific explanation with lived experience. A defining strand of his work is reporting from remote icy and mountainous regions on Arctic sea ice loss, permafrost, polar bears, pollution and fragile ecosystems. He has a long record on conflict and security, including the Skripal poisoning case. His reporting appears in New Scientist and major international outlets, with work across print, digital, audio and television and recognition from climate and journalism awards.
Amy Lyall
Amy Lyall is a regular contributor to The Connexion, and her work stands out for turning French rules, services and the built environment into clear, usable advice for everyday readers. She covers housing, energy use, resident obligations and the practical steps behind things like getting air-conditioning approved for flats. Her beat also includes national and local schemes, insurance and legal conditions for lending a car, mobile network coverage, mosquito-borne diseases, water filters, fruit harvests and emergency drones with defibrillators. She writes news, practical guides and magazine-style features, using plain language to explain technical topics and official systems. She also writes explainers on French words and phrases and occasional culture pieces on unusual sites such as Maison Picassiette.