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Dr Danbury directs the MA in investigative journalism at City, University of London in the UK. He is the BBC’s advanced law trainer, and is on the Scott Trust Review Panel, the body that oversees content-related complaints about The Guardian newspaper. As a journalist with the BBC he was based in news and current affairs, and specialised in interviews and investigations. He has a doctorate in media law from Oxford University.

Laura Rocha is the President of Periodistas por el Planeta (Journalists for the Planet), an organisation of environmental journalists across Latin America who try to bring environmental and climate change stories to the attention of politicians and economists. She’s been covering environmental stories for 25 years and is currently a journalist at Infobae in Argentina. She has a Master’s degree in Journalism from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella-La Nación and a Master’s in Urban Economics from Universidad Di Tella (in progress).

Leo is the director and editor of Carbon Brief, a UK-based website covering the latest developments in climate science, climate policy and energy policy. They specialise in data-driven articles and graphics to help improve understanding of climate change. Before joining Carbon Brief he was a journalist, editor and author at the Guardian and was World Wildlife Fund-UK’s chief advisor on climate change. In 2020, he was named Editor of the Year by the Association of British Science Writers.

Patrick is a reporter with Guardian Media writing about biodiversity loss, the climate crisis and possible solutions. Before working at the Guardian, he was a producer with CNN. He has a Master’s degree in International and Development Economics from Yale University.