Leo Hickman
@LeoHickman
Director/editor of @CarbonBrief. Served 16 years at the Guardian. Author of A Life Stripped Bare, The Final Call, Will Jellyfish Rule the World?...
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'Will not go down well abroad - it sends a signal' - James Landale
'A terrible decision' - Ed Miliband
Shortly before this was announced, I was at a BeZero Carbon event with Chris Skidmore and asked him if PM will attend COP27.
He said he very much hoped so and “not just a one day fly in fly out”. Said it was a matter of “post-COP26 climate leadership”. 😬
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Honoured to be shortlisted for this Press Gazette #BritishJournalismAwards alongside top class colleagues Damian Carrington Rachel Salvidge Akshat Rathi Gabriel Pogrund and others
For Carbon Brief, I plotted every extreme weather event in Africa recorded in the Emergency Events Database for 2022
New from UN Environment Programme: World currently heading for around 2.6C, though uncertainties in the climate system mean that warming of up to 4C cannot be fully ruled out
Very grateful to have contributed a small bit to this analysis by my brilliant US colleague Zeke Hausfather