Justin Rowlatt Keynote Speaker

Justin Rowlatt is the BBC’s first climate editor and one of the corporations most well-known correspondents. It’s his job to report from the frontline of our changing world, documenting how global warming is reshaping ecosystems and economies. You’ll have seen him on the main TV news, you’ll have heard him on radio, you will have read his articles online and you may well subscribe to his BBC Future Earth newsletter.

Justin also presents documentaries on television and radio. His programmes for BBC1 have explored all aspects of climate change and how to tackle it – from the increasingly wild weather the world is experiencing, to the challenges of switching to a heat pump. He’s particularly proud of his BBC radio series exploring role of energy in pretty much everything – check out The Pyrotechnic History of Humanity and The Geochemical History of Life on Earth, for example.

Justin has travelled very widely. He was the first journalist to journalist to get to the front of the so-called “doomsday glacier” in the West Antarctic and last year reported from Somalia – one of the most dangerous countries in the world. He’s also broken some of the biggest stories in his patch – notably revealing how the teams running the two most recent UN climate conferences aimed to use their involvement to discuss oil and gas deals.

His current role is the culmination of a long and varied career at the BBC. Justin spent a year living as ‘Ethical Man’ for Newsnight. He was part of the team that launched The ONE Show on BBC1 and has been a reporter on Panorama and the North of England correspondent for Channel 4 News.