Interview in 2011

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  • Composer and string musician, turned award-winning environmentalist, Aubrey Meyer tells Nature Climate Change why he is campaigning for countries to adopt his 'contraction and convergence' model of global development to avoid dangerous climate change.

    • Henry Nicholls
    Interview
  • In October, the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, funded in part by climate sceptics, concluded that the Earth is warming based on the most comprehensive review of the data yet. Nature Climate Change talks to the project's director, physicist Richard Muller.

    • Zoë Corbyn
    Interview
  • As Brazil debates relaxing its strong forestry laws, Nature Climate Change discusses the implications with Amazon ecologist Thomas Lovejoy, professor of environmental science at George Mason University and Biodiversity Chair at the Heinz Center in Washington DC.

    • Jeff Tollefson
    Interview
  • As the first of the world's ecosystems faces extermination at our hands, coral reef ecologist Peter Sale — Assistant Director of the Institute of Water, Environment and Health at the United Nations University in Ontario, Canada, and author of Our Dying Planet (published this autumn) — talks to Nature Climate Change.

    • Gaia Vince
    Interview
  • As we face perhaps the biggest challenge in our species' history, Chris Stringer — a palaeoanthropologist at London's Natural History Museum and author of The Origin Of Our Species — tells Nature Climate Change how our hominid cousins battled past climate change.

    • Gaia Vince
    Interview
  • Science historian and 2011 Climate Change Communicator of the Year award-winner Naomi Oreskes talks to Nicola Jones about her latest book Merchants of Doubt (co-authored with Erik Conway), which documents how scientists obscured the truth on global warming.

    • Nicola Jones
    Interview
  • On 9 May this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a special report on the role of renewable energy in mitigating climate change. Georgie Weedon speaks to Ottmar Edenhofer, co-chair of the working group behind the report, about its key findings and implications.

    • Georgie Weedon
    Interview
  • Having served as President of Ireland and as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson has now returned home with a new mission — to bring a human face to climate change.

    • Olive Heffernan
    Interview