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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

Revealed: Leak casts doubt on COP30’s ‘informal list’ of fossil-fuel roadmap opponents

28.11.2025
COP30 Belém

Webinar: Carbon Brief’s third ‘ask us anything’ at COP30

25.11.2025
COP30 Belém

Webinar: Carbon Brief’s second ‘ask us anything’ at COP30 

17.11.2025
COP30 Belém

The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Stephen Belcher

26.04.2018
AMOC

Autumn Budget 2017: Key climate and energy announcements

22.11.2017
Emissions

COP23 video: What needs to happen by COP24 to keep the Paris Agreement on track?

16.11.2017
COP23 Bonn

COP23 video: Does Donald Trump make limiting global warming to 1.5C impossible?

15.11.2017
Climate system

In-depth: How the ‘Clean Growth Strategy’ hopes to deliver UK climate goals

12.10.2017
Energy

Mapped: How UK foreign aid is spent on climate change

10.10.2017
Adaptation

Factcheck: Grenfell Tower fire and the Daily Mail’s ‘green targets’ claim

16.06.2017

The 1981 TV documentary that warned about global warming

02.05.2017
Antarctica

The Carbon Brief Interview: Michael Gerrard

19.04.2017
Attribution

The Carbon Brief Interview: Brian Deese

10.04.2017
Emissions