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Data Scientist @VernerViisas

Verner Viisainen

Data Scientist SINCE October 2023

Dr Verner Viisainen holds a PhD in engineering from the University of Cambridge and a MEng in mechanical engineering from the University of Bristol. He previously worked for two years as a policy analyst for environmental thinktank Green Alliance, primarily focusing on accelerating industrial decarbonisation and assessing government progress on its net-zero goals.

LATEST BY Verner Viisainen

DeBriefed 26 July 2024: Biden’s ‘climate legacy’; Global wildfires; Life in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’

DeBriefed | 26.07.24

Man plants a tree in Abernethy Forest, Scotland.

Analysis: UK misses tree-planting targets by forest the ‘size of Birmingham’

UK policy | 26.06.24

Wind turbines and solar photovoltaic panels in Guizhou, China.

Analysis: Wind and solar added more to global energy than any other source in 2023

Renewables | 20.06.24

Old windmills and newer wind turbines, Netherlands.

Analysis: European power-sector emissions fall by 20% since last EU election

EU policy | 31.05.24

Graphic: Tom Pearson for Carbon Brief

Chart: How British electricity supplies are shifting decisively away from fossil fuels

Renewables | 03.05.24

Steam rising from cooling towers at Ratcliffe on Soar power station, Nottinghamshire. Credit: Simon Annable / Alamy Stock Photo

Analysis: Fossil fuels fall to record-low 2.4% of British electricity

UK policy | 24.04.24

DeBriefed 28 March 2024: Amazon fund; China faces trade storm; How lifestyle changes could slash EU emissions

DeBriefed | 28.03.24

Tay Bridge disaster, 28 December 1879.

Analysis: UK emissions in 2023 fell to lowest level since 1879

UK policy | 11.03.24

Former US president Donald Trump at a Republican convention in California on 29 September 2023.

Analysis: Trump election win could add 4bn tonnes to US emissions by 2030

US Policy | 06.03.24

A South Wales coal-mine in the 1950s.

Analysis: UK electricity from fossil fuels drops to lowest level since 1957

Energy | 03.01.24

Negotiations at the UN’s climate summit

Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at COP28 climate summit

UN climate talks | 01.12.23

Illustration depicting British troops being ferried across a river in Burma on rafts, dated 19th century. Image ID: HHEERK.

Revealed: Colonial rule nearly doubles UK’s historical contribution to climate change

UK emissions | 27.11.23

British Empire Marketing Board poster from 1928

Revealed: How colonial rule radically shifts historical responsibility for climate change

Emissions | 26.11.23

The Wadden Sea, factory buildings and wind turbines at sunset, Eemshaven, Netherlands.

Analysis: Global CO2 emissions could peak as soon as 2023, IEA data reveals

International policy | 26.10.23

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