Advisory board

Climate Home News has an expert advisory board to help secure the financial sustainability of our journalism and guide strategy.

Members give their time voluntarily and do not represent their employers in their advisory role for us. We are very grateful for their expert counsel.

Pete Bowyer is a leading communicator on climate change having worked with international figures, multi-national businesses, international organisations and global NGOs over the last ten years. This included advising HE Kofi Annan, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, in the run-up to the UN Copenhagen COP in 2009, President Nasheed of the Maldives at UN Cancun COP Conference in 2010 and Michael R Bloomberg, the UN’s Special Envoy on Cities and Climate, in 2015.

Pete also spent two years with the United Nations Foundation on behalf of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the global launch of Assessment Report 5 through 2013-14. He was embedded for two weeks in Le Bourget working with We Mean Business during COP21 in Paris, and again in Marrakech in 2016.

He is currently chair of UK100, the national network of local leaders committed to 100% clean energy in their areas by 2050, which now has 93 local authorities across the UK signed up.

Luke Herbert is Director of International Communications at The Climate Group.

He was previously Director at Madano integrated communications consultancy and Head of Government Affairs at Jaguar Land Rover, focusing on UK and international stakeholder issues.

Ed King is International Lead, Strategic Communications at the European Climate Foundation. He was Climate Home News editor from 2011-2017, and in a previous life reported on horse racing, rugby and the Olympics at the BBC.