Speakers

David Shukman
Environment & Science Correspondent
BBC News

David Shukman, environment & science correspondent for BBC News since 2003, covers key developments in climate change. 

He has reported on the latest research and impacts in locations as diverse as the Arctic, the Antarctic, the Amazon and Africa. 

He was the first TV news journalist to visit NASA's ice research station in Greenland, and the first to broadcast live on television from the British Antarctic base at Rothera and from the fabled North West Passage through the Arctic. This year, he has reported from Tuvalu in the Pacific on the threat of sea-level rise and from Alaska on what the retreat of Arctic sea-ice means for oil exploitation and potential conflict.

Closer to home, assignments in the UK include last year’s flooding, coastal erosion, the urban heat island effect, drought, and the changing seasons. 

Last year David covered the publications of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Paris, Brussels, Bangkok and Valencia and he has reported on the UN's climate conferences in Montreal, Nairobi and Bali. He was the BBC's main commentator during the Live Earth concerts.

In February 2007 he won a nomination for Specialist Journalism from the Royal Television Society.

He has chaired numerous conferences on climate change including for the United Nations Economic and Social Committee, the Royal College of Physicians, and the IUCN World Conservation Congress.

Previously David has held the BBC positions of Defence Correspondent, covering the fall of the Berlin Wall and the war in Bosnia, and Europe Correspondent based in Brussels. He began his career on the Coventry Evening Telegraph.

He is married with three teenage children.