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Leo Hickman

Director and editor

Leo previously worked for 16 years as a journalist, editor and author at the Guardian newspaper. Before joining Carbon Brief, he was WWF-UK’s chief advisor on climate change. In 2013, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Exeter in recognition of his journalism. His books include A Life Stripped Bare, The Final Call and Will Jellyfish Rule the World?

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Latest by Leo Hickman

Mapped: Inside Carbon Brief’s Cosmos database of 1.8 million climate studies

22.06.2026
Science

Project Cosmos

22.06.2026
Science

Introducing Carbon Brief’s 2026 cohort of contributing editors

07.04.2026

Webinar: Carbon Brief journalists discuss COP28’s key outcomes 

19.12.2023
COP28 Dubai

DeBriefed 14 July 2023: US says ‘no’ to climate reparations; ‘Plan’ for COP28; Extreme weather ‘intensifies’; Just Stop Oil prisoner interview

14.07.2023

Introducing Carbon Brief’s contributing editors

03.07.2023

Revealed: The 11 slides that finally convinced Boris Johnson about global warming

01.02.2022
Policy

The Carbon Brief Interview: Teresa Ribera

19.12.2018
Coal

The Carbon Brief Interview: Saudi Arabia’s Ayman Shasly

12.12.2018
COP24 Katowice

Exclusive: BBC One to show first primetime film on climate change since 2007

12.10.2018
Extreme weather

Exclusive: BBC issues internal guidance on how to report climate change

07.09.2018
Science

The 2004 lecture that finally convinced David Attenborough about global warming

13.08.2018
Global temperature

Negative emissions: Scientists meet in Sweden for first international conference

25.05.2018
Emissions

Video: Why studying Thwaites glacier is vital for forecasting sea level rise

02.05.2018
Antarctica