Molly Lempriere
Molly Lempriere reports on how energy and climate policy is reshaping power systems, using analysis and explainers to track the shift from fossil fuels to clean electricity. She is section editor for policy at Carbon Brief and focuses on the practical implications of climate targets for power, transport and industry. Her work centres on connecting data, policy decisions and system reliability, particularly in the context of clean power, electric vehicles and climate negotiations.
Clean power by 2030
Lempriere’s coverage of clean electricity is anchored in detailed analysis of how governments plan to deliver fully or largely decarbonised power systems by 2030.
In a major piece on how the UK plans to reach clean power by 2030, she dissects policy packages, investment needs and system changes, using official forecasts and independent assessments to show what must happen on the grid. Her analysis of tariffs imposed by the Trump administration similarly quantifies how trade measures affect global CO₂ emissions, highlighting that their impact is small compared with the scale of required climate action.
She also writes on the Committee on Climate Change’s assessment that the chance of the UK meeting its climate pledges has worsened, using that report to show where delivery is falling short across sectors and infrastructure. Across these pieces she keeps the focus on measurable outcomes, climate commitments and the gap between headline pledges and implementation.
Wind and solar feature heavily in her work on the power transition.
An article republished by Resilience.org describes wind and solar as the fastest‑growing electricity sources in history, and sets out how rapidly their share of generation has increased. That piece showcases her approach of combining long‑term trends with recent deployment data to explain why renewables have become central to power‑sector decarbonisation. Her factcheck on how nuclear, gas, wind and solar power are affected during heatwaves adds a resilience angle, exploring how different generation technologies respond under extreme temperatures and what this means for security of supply.
Heatwaves and power systems
Lempriere’s factcheck on power technologies during heatwaves examines how climate impacts intersect with generation choices. In that work she compares how nuclear reactors, gas plants, wind farms and solar installations perform when temperatures rise, looking at constraints such as cooling‑water availability, efficiency losses and grid stress. She uses this to explain why adaptation measures, such as passive cooling and upgraded infrastructure, are becoming integral to power‑system planning.
Her reporting on the Committee on Climate Change’s call for “urgent” UK adaptation action reinforces this focus on resilience.
In that article she sets out the committee’s estimate that at least £11bn per year in additional investment will be needed, including substantial spending on air conditioning, passive cooling, flood defences and water conservation. By connecting those numbers to specific risks and sectors, she shows how climate adaptation is no longer an abstract concept but a defined, costed programme that will shape buildings, networks and services.
Electric vehicles and markets
Lempriere regularly links transport decarbonisation to electricity demand and market change. In her analysis of electric vehicles just outselling petrol cars in the EU for the first time, she uses sales data to signal the pace of the transition and its implications for power systems and charging infrastructure.
She places this milestone within a broader narrative about how policy incentives, industrial strategy and consumer behaviour are shifting vehicle fleets towards electrification. Alongside this, her work on tariffs, trade and industrial policy shows how international measures can either support or constrain clean‑technology deployment.
Together these pieces present EVs and related policies as core drivers of future electricity demand, grid planning and climate progress.
UN climate talks and COP outcomes
International climate negotiations are another recurring strand of Lempriere’s coverage. She co‑authored reporting on the UN Climate Change Conference 2026, describing how the latest global climate talks ended with limited progress amid deep political tensions.
That piece tracks fault lines between major negotiating blocs and examines what the outcome means for global mitigation and finance efforts.
She has also contributed to Carbon Brief webinars that unpack COP outcomes, including sessions on COP28 and COP29 that bring together colleagues to discuss key decisions, texts and next steps. Her role as section editor for policy positions her to frame these events within the wider policy landscape, connecting summit communiqués to domestic legislation, targets and implementation challenges.
Beyond long‑form analysis, Lempriere writes Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed newsletter, which distils the week’s major climate and energy developments. An edition in September 2026 covers topics such as projections that the Earth is on course to overshoot 1.5°C, calls from Nepal for climate compensation and long‑term EV trends, illustrating her ability to curate disparate stories into a coherent picture of where climate policy and markets are heading. Her previous roles as UK editor at Solar Media and senior editor for the energy sector at Verdict Media have given her a long‑standing focus on the energy transition, managing specialist titles that track power markets and clean‑energy deployment.
That career path underpins a reporting style that is grounded in sector detail, attentive to policy design and consistently oriented towards the practical mechanics of decarbonisation.
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