Ms Fiona HARVEY

Journalist, The Guardian

Fiona Harvey is an award-winning journalist who has been a full-time environment correspondent since 2004, first for the Financial Times and since 2011 for The Guardian newspaper. She has reported on every major environmental issue, from the climate crisis to pollution, sustainability, biodiversity and the oceans, from as far afield as the Arctic and the Amazon. Her wide range of interviewees includes Antonio Guterres, Sir David Attenborough, Tony Blair, Ban Ki-moon and Mikhail Gorbachev.  She has attended almost every UNFCCC Cop since 2004, including reporting live from the 2015 Paris summit, and reported on major events including the IPCC's assessment reports. Among numerous awards and recognitions, she has twice won the Foreign Press Association award for Environment Story of the Year, the British Environment and Media Awards journalist of the year, and in 2020 she was named in the Woman’s Hour Power List of 30 top UK women, focusing on Our Planet.