Leo Hickman is a journalist specialising in climate change and has been the editor and director of

CarbonBrief Carbon Brief is a UK-based website specialising in the science and policy of climate change. It has won awards for investigative journalism and data visualisation. Leo Hickman is the director and editor for Carbon Brief. Founding Carbon Brief is ...

since 2015. Previously, he was a features journalist and editor with ''

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'' from 1997 to 2013. From September 2013 to December 2014, he worked as the chief advisor on

climate change Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in Global surface temperature, global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate variability and change, Climate change in ...

for the UK branch of the

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Life

Hickman grew up in

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, about 400 yards away from what was to become the

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. He studied in the School of English and American Studies (ENGAM) at the

University of Sussex The University of Sussex is a public university, public research university, research university located in Falmer, East Sussex, England. It lies mostly within the city boundaries of Brighton and Hove. Its large campus site is surrounded by the ...

, graduating in Art History in 1994.

Work

Hickman wrote for the Ethical Living section of

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, offering advice on readers'

ethical Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches include normative ethics, applied e ...

concerns, and wrote two books on the theme: ''Life Stripped Bare: My Year Trying To Live Ethically'' and ''A Good Life''. In 2007, he published a third book, ''The Final Call'', discussing the ethics of

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, and in 2008 he published ''Will Jellyfish Rule the World?'', a book about

for children.

Awards

In 2020, Hickman was named "Editor of the Year" by the

Association of British Science Writers The Association of British Science Writers (ABSW) is the UK society for Science writing, science writers, science journalists and science communicators. Founded in 1947, the ABSW exists to help those who write about science and technology, and ...

. In 2013, he was awarded an honorary DLitt by the

University of Exeter The University of Exeter is a research university in the West Country of England, with its main campus in Exeter, Devon. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of ...

, where he is a visiting lecturer in the department of

geography Geography (from Ancient Greek ; combining 'Earth' and 'write', literally 'Earth writing') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding o ...

Publications

* '' Life Stripped Bare: My Year Trying To Live Ethically'' * '' A Good Life'' * '' The Final Call'' * '' Will Jellyfish Rule the World?''

References

External links

Leo Hickman on Guardian Unlimited

The Eco Audit blog
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