Jonathan Watts
Jonathan Watts is the Guardian's global environment editor. Twitter @jonathanwatts
July 2024
June 2024
- Science WeeklyWhat are the main UK parties promising on climate and is it enough? – podcastIan Sample is joined by the global environment editor, Jon Watts, and the biodiversity reporter, Phoebe Weston, to find out what the election manifestos have to say about nature and climate, and whether anyone is promising the level of action scientists are asking for.
May 2024
April 2024
March 2024
- Science WeeklyShould forests have rights? – podcastA growing movement of ecologists, lawyers and artists is arguing that nature should have legal rights. By recognising the rights of ecosystems and other species, advocates hope that they can gain better protection. Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian’s global environment editor, Jonathan Watts, about where this movement has come from and why the UK government has dismissed the concept, and hears from Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito of NYU School of Law about how he is finding creative ways to give rights to nature