Leo Hickman
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Leo Hickman is a journalist specialising in climate change and has been the editor and director of CarbonBrief{{cite web|url=https://www.carbonbrief.org/about-us|title=About Us|work=CarbonBrief}} since 2015. Previously, he was a features journalist and editor with The Guardian from 1997 to 2013. From September 2013 to December 2014, he worked as the chief advisor on climate change for the UK branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature.{{cite news | first = Leo | last = Hickman | title = The era of climate change 'denial' is over | date = 2013-08-28 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2013/aug/28/era-climate-change-denial-over | newspaper = The Guardian | access-date = 2013-08-28 | quote = A personal note: after 16 years working as a Guardian journalist, this is my final article. Next month, I will take up the role of chief advisor, climate change at WWF-UK.}}
Life
Hickman grew up in Cornwall, about 400 yards away from what was to become the Eden Project. He studied in the School of English and American Studies (ENGAM) at the University of Sussex,{{cite journal | title = Make apathy history | journal = Falmer: The University of Sussex Magazine | year = 2006 | first = Leo | last = Hickman | volume = 43 | pages = 18–19 | url = http://www.sussex.ac.uk/alumni/pdfs/falmer_archive/winter06.pdf | access-date = 2012-11-20 | quote = Leo Hickman (ENGAM 1991) is a journalist, author and editor at The Guardian. | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131116142207/http://www.sussex.ac.uk/alumni/pdfs/falmer_archive/winter06.pdf | archive-date = 16 November 2013 | url-status = dead }} graduating in Art History in 1994.{{cite web | url = http://www.exeter.ac.uk/honorarygraduates/honorarygraduates/ceremony17/ | title = Honorary graduates 2013-14: Leo Hickman (DLitt) | access-date = 2013-08-28 | publisher = University of Exeter | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131001022244/http://www.exeter.ac.uk/honorarygraduates/honorarygraduates/ceremony17/ | archive-date = 1 October 2013 | url-status = dead }}
Work
Hickman wrote for the Ethical Living section of Guardian Unlimited, offering advice on readers' ethical 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 tourism, and in 2008 he published Will Jellyfish Rule the World?, a book about climate change for children.
Awards
In 2020, Hickman was named "Editor of the Year"{{cite web |url=https://www.absw.org.uk/pages/60-absw-awards-2020-shortlist-and-winners |website=Association of British Science Writers | title=ABSW Awards 2020: shortlist and winners |access-date=13 January 2021 |ref=ABSWaward}} by the Association of British Science Writers. In 2013, he was awarded an honorary DLitt by the University of Exeter, where he is a visiting lecturer in the department of geography.
Publications
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External links
- [http://environment.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Archive/0,,-2442,00.html Leo Hickman on Guardian Unlimited]
- [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog+series/the-eco-audit-with-leo-hickman The Eco Audit blog]
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Category:Alumni of the University of Sussex
Category:British male journalists
Category:Environmental journalists
Category:The Guardian journalists
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