Jonathan Watts is a British

journalist A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis ...

and the author of ''When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save the World - or Destroy It'' and "''The Many Lives of

James Lovelock James Ephraim Lovelock (26 July 1919 – 26 July 2022) was an English independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating syst ...

''". He served as president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China from 2008 to 2009 and as vice president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan from 2001 to 2003. He is married to Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum. Since 1996, he has reported on East Asia for ''

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...

'', covering the North Korean nuclear crisis, the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, the Sichuan earthquake, the Beijing Olympics, the

Copenhagen climate conference The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit, was held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 7 and 18 December. The conference included the 15th session of the Conference of the Partie ...

, and developments in China's media, society and environment. In 2012 Watts covered Rio+20 for The Guardian, and as of 2025 is their Global Environment Editor. In 2018 and 2019, Watts was selected as a winner of the SEAL Environmental Journalism Award.

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