Investigator, editor, podcast host
Bertie Harrison-Broninski is Senior Editor at Land and Climate Review, and co-hosts The Land and Climate Podcast.
He is also an investigative journalist, who has broken stories with Al Jazeera, BBC Newsnight, The Guardian, The Intercept, Press Association, and others.
Bertie was a finalist for The Chartered Institute of Journalists’ Young Environmental Journalist of the Year award in 2025.
Select examples of Bertie’s journalism are below – email for his full portfolio.
Multimedia
Bertie has hosted over 40 episodes of The Land and Climate Podcast since 2021, interviewing senior diplomats and officials, frontline climate activists, and world-leading scientists.
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Below: watch the BBC Newsnight documentary about Bertie and Jaysim Hanspal’s investigation into the UK’s biomass supply chain, and listen to Al Jazeera’s podcast about Bertie’s investigation into misconduct by a senior professor at the University of Oxford.
Drax is the UK's largest recipient of green subsidies for biomass. They've been under particular focus as this year the BBC reported it had burned wood from rare forests in Canada. Now, #Newsnight's @katelamble has seen evidence of almost 200 environmental breaches at the mills… pic.twitter.com/nmq1UAQDEf
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) May 15, 2024
Written media
Investigations
Biomass exposed
- Drax faces lawsuits over claims workers developed asthma from wood dust, The Guardian, 24th October 2025 (with Jaysim Hanspal).
- Drax biomass led to disabling health conditions, say unions and workers, Land and Climate Review, 24th October 2025 (with Jaysim Hanspal).
- The Dirty Business of Clean Energy: The U.K. Power Company Polluting Small Towns Across the U.S, The Intercept, 30th September 2024 (with Camille Corcoran).
- Drax’s pellet mills violated environmental law 189 times in Canada, Land and Climate Review, 14th May 2024 (with Jaysim Hanspal). Featured on BBC Newsnight (above) and Global News Canada.
- Drax faces penalty after Canadian biomass plant fails to submit pollution report, The Independent, 21st October 2023 (article written by Rebecca Speare-Cole for Press Association based on Bertie’s investigation). Also published in Bloomberg, the Evening Standard, and others.
Degrees of Abuse
- Degrees of Abuse FOI database, Al Jazeera, 19th October 2021 (with the AJ Investigative Unit).
- Oxford professors abused position with sexist and drunken conduct, Al Jazeera, 19th October 2021 (with the AJ Investigative Unit).
- UK universities do not probe bulk of sexual misconduct reports, Al Jazeera, 29th October 2021 (with the AJ Investigative Unit).
- ‘What we fear as women’: Sexual abuse in UK universities, Al Jazeera, 2nd November 2021 (with the AJ Investigative Unit).
- Mary Rambaran-Olm spoke out about the allegations against Andy Orchard for years. Why didn’t anyone listen to her?, The Varsity, 4th April 2022 (article written by Nawa Tahir, featuring interview with Bertie).
Hunting Ghislaine
Bertie spent much of 2021 investigating Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, uncovering new details about their networks and crimes. This research was bought by veteran BBC and Observer journalist John Sweeney for inclusion in his 2024 book, Hunting Ghislaine.
Features
- Why was organic policy blamed for Sri Lanka’s financial crisis?, Land and Climate Review, 21st June 2024.
- Seeing the storm ahead, Land and Climate Review, 13th March 2024.
- Is corruption and slavery the cost of a mobile phone?, Land and Climate Review, 14th July 2023 (with Jaysim Hanspal).
- Will the EU Battery Regulation change anything?, Land and Climate Review, 14th July 2023.
- There is so much to say about plastic pollution. Why are we not talking about it?, Land and Climate Review, 20th February 2023.
- The Emperor’s new carbon credits? Silicon Valley’s non-existent offsets, Land and Climate Review, 16th December 2022.
- What does the IPCC say about carbon removal?, Land and Climate Review, 13th December 2022.
- Capturing and storing problems, Land and Climate Review, 29th April 2022
- What is Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage? The BECCS for power basics, Land and Climate Review, 6th April 2022.
- Why Carbon Capture and Storage matters: overshoot, models, and money, Land and Climate Review, 1st April 2022.
- What is happening with carbon capture and storage?, Land and Climate Review, 14th March 2022.
- ‘We are all guilty’ – the blurred genres of Filipino cinema, The Isis, 1st May 2020.
- Cinema and Suffering: In dialogue with Sri Lanka’s greatest directors, The Isis, 13th February 2019.
- On the Inside, Cherwell, 14th October 2018
- The Pitt Rivers must face its dark past, Cherwell, 29th April 2018.
Opinion & reviews
- Canada should avoid the mistakes the U.K. made in biomass for energy, Policy Options, 9th April 2024 (with Richard Robertson). Republished by The Tyee on 29th April 2024 and by The Energy Mix on 14th May 2024.
- Sick of smelly, plastic clothes? Blame oil and industrial farming, Land and Climate Review, 14th July 2023.
- When is the time to mourn?, Land and Climate Review, 8th March 2023.
- Letter: Big Oil should make way for those who can deliver, Financial Times, 15th February 2023 (with Doug Parr).
- Do ad-men dream of electric trees? Greenwash at the Science Museum, Land and Climate Review, 13th December 2022.
- Is climate dystopia inevitable? Reviewing ‘Half Earth Socialism’ by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass, Land and Climate Review, 1st July 2022.
- Rethinking net zero: why Holly Jean Buck’s ‘Why Net Zero is Not Enough’ is not enough, Land and Climate Review, 19th January 2022.
- Swamplands: Edward Struzik’s bog book is a call for cultural change, Land and Climate Review, 5th November 2021.
- As 300,000 Hong Kongers Move To Britain, It’s Time To Rethink Immigration Policy, Journal of Political Risk, 31st January 2021.
- Forget Presidential Politics: Sri Lanka’s Green Movement Is Its Best Hope Against China, Journal of Political Risk, 15th November 2019.
- An Oligarch, A Think Tank And The Rise Of American Kleptocracy?, Journal of Political Risk, 15th October 2019.
- Oxford should not accept billionaires’ vanity projects, Cherwell, 21st April 2018.
- Summer and Smoke Review – ‘re-staged inventively, but unpretentiously’, Cherwell, 17th March 2018.
- Jubilee review – ‘Funny, self-referential, and visually exciting’, Cherwell, 28th February 2018.
Editorial
- The cryosphere is nearing irreversible tipping points – and the world is not prepared, by Letizia Tedesco, Josephine Z. Rapp and Petra Heil. Land and Climate Review, 18th November 2025.
- Climate diplomacy must shift focus from markets to land rights, by Frederike Klümper and Joanna Trimble. Land and Climate Review, 17th October 2025.
- Climate donors must address the gender funding gap, by Namnyak Sinandei Makko and Omaira Bolaños. Land and Climate Review, 19th September 2025.
- The Global Plastics Treaty must include production reduction, by Punyathorn Jeungsmarn. Land and Climate Review, 5th August 2025.
- Trump will leave climate science in smoking ruins – and the economy will suffer for it, by John Holdren. Land and Climate Review, 1st August 2025.
- Privatising space will make emissions soar, by D. Raghunandan. Land and Climate Review, 11th March 2025.
- Drax-owned facilities broke environmental rules more than 11,000 times in the US, by Camille Corcoran. Land and Climate Review, 4th November 2024.
- A Sri Lankan village was offered help from the UN’s Green Climate Fund – now they feel misled, by Nethmi Bathige. Land and Climate Review, 21st June 2024.
- Farmers’ protests are about more than green policies, by Thin Lei Win. Land and Climate Review, 2nd May 2024.
- Eni’s struggles in Africa show it’s time to move on from biofuels fantasies, by Agathe Bounfour. Land and Climate Review, 13th March 2024.
- The future unrefined, Land and Climate Review, 14th July 2023.
- The negative emissions gamble, Land and Climate Review, 13th December 2022.
- An IMF bailout will not help Sri Lanka. Debt-for-climate swaps would, by Avishka Sendanayake. Land and Climate Review, 16th November 2022.
- What is the financial cost of loss and damage from climate change?, by A. Karim Ahmed and Jeffrey D. Tamucci. Land and Climate Review, 12th June 2022.
- Why we need a Global Climate Reparations Fund, by A. Karim Ahmed. Land and Climate Review, 28th January 2022.
- We need artists for climate communication – so let’s start paying them, by Ian McLachlan. Land and Climate Review, 22nd December 2021.
- Freezine, 2018-2021.