Charles Clover

Profile: Full name: Charles Clover (not to be confused with Charles Clover, FT foreign correspondent) Area of interest: Environment Journals/Organisation: The Sunday Times Email: Personal website: Website: http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/comment/columns/charlesclover Blog: End of the line Representation: Networks: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/charles-clover/13/562/844

Biography: About: Freelance environmental journalist and author, currently a columnist for The Sunday Times, a director of The Fish Film Company and editor of a campaigning website, fish2fork Education: Westminster School; University of York: English and Philosophy Career: The Spectator: Editor; The Daily Telegraph: formerly responsible for environmental coverage at The Daily Telegraph for 20 years and founder of the Telegraph's Earth Channel (2007); The Sunday Times: columnist, July 2009– Current position/role: Columnist Other roles/Main role: Editor of Fish2fork, Sustainable fish restaurant website and news channel about the oceans, 2009- Other activities: Co-founder of the Agricultural Reform Group; Member of the Fisheries Reform Group; Founder and chairman of the Spitalfields Society - a civic society trying to rebuild the social and architectural fabric of the area; Trustee of Dedham Vale Society - dedicated to protecting the Dedham Vale area of outstanding natural beauty on the Essex/Suffolk border Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Broadcast media: Frequent contributor to BBC TV, Sky and BBC Radio news, including BBC2's Newsnight Video: Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: British Environment and Media’s National Journalist of the Year award, 1989, 1994 and 1996 Scoops: Other: His father was a conventional farmer and his mother was an early member of the Soil Association

Books & Debate: Highgrove: An Experiment in Organic Gardening and Farming OCLC 27172511, 1993 (with Charles, Prince of Wales) Highgrove: Portrait of an Estate OCLC 248269512, 2002 Latest work: The End of the Line: How Over-fishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat OCLC 67383509, 2006. See: Underwater treasures - Documentary makers look for the next eco-blockbuster, The Economist, 22nd January 2009 and In video: The End of the Line - A new documentary looks at the dangers of the fishing industry, The Independent, 3rd June 2009 Speaking/Appearances: Current debate:http://www.intelligencesquared.com/people/c/charles-clover

The Sunday Times: Column name: Remit/Info: Environmental issues Section: Role: Pen-name: Email: Website: http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/comment/columns/charlesclover Commissioning editor: Day published: Sunday Regularity: Weekly Column format: Average length:

Articles: 2011 Stop shrinking all the gardens - If this government really wants to become the greenest ever then it should ignore Nimbys and encourage the expansion of gardens - 9th October Ah, that fluffy grey squirrel is costing us £1bn - Invasive species of animals and plants are the second-greatest threat to wildlife on earth, bodies such as Natural England warn - 2nd October Easing the energy crisis with a bit of Blackpool rock - Amid the chaos of global economics, the discovery of vast reserves of shale gas under Blackpool is great news for Britain - 25th September Bodger Greg’s planning rules are crumbling - Constituency boundary changes mean that MPs are likely to be much more sensitive to local concerns than they are to the party line - 18th September One nod buries the village that refused to die - Great Ryburgh, saved by its inhabitants, must now fight through another blow to save eight acres of meadow from development - 11th September They’ve pumped out piffle about our ‘clean’ rivers - Water privatisation has brought about improvements but many of our finest waterways remain blighted, despite what the The Environment Agency says - 4th September Just save the pink fairy armadillo – ask why later - The argument for keeping beauty and wonder in the world is fragile, not least because we haven’t found all the species there are - 28th August A burst of petal power to give our bees a boost - Bees and other pollinating insects, which depend on nectar from flower-rich countryside, add £430m a year to the economy - 21st August These EU rules are toxic to our tasty scallops - The new rules on selling scallops dead rather than alive are an insult to common sense and a triumph for The Scallop Association - 14th August The gun’s loaded but is it really the end for Badger? - The possum poisoners and seal killers may yet turn out to be right as the fight to tackle bovine tuberculosis steps up a gear - 24th July Act fast and we can clean up the Fifa of whaling - The International Whaling Committee’s national delegates make football’s global governing body look a model of judicial probity - 10th July Softly, softly, the residents rise to fight the bulldozer - Let down by consecutive governments, it is now up to Liverpool's leaders to find a way of breathing life into the Victorian suburbs - 3rd July Mad EU disease — scrapping a sane farm subsidy - There is a danger that if you stop paying farmers to protect rare birds, you will wipe out decades of conservation work - 26th June Filthy England dumps its green dreams in landfill - It is no longer every Englishman's right to have the remains of his chicken tikka masala collected weekly after the coalition's U-turn - 19th June A green dream smothered by gardeners’ peat - Phasing-out the use of peat is a near perfect green policy with multiple benefits but governments and Europe have failed to act - 12th June Think, chancellor, that skylark is worth £30 billion - The birds and the bees are often undervalued because there is a tendency to focus on the market value of resources we can use and sell - 5th June Yes, Mr Cameron — reel in Salmond with mackerel - If David Cameron acts now to secure the future of Scotland's fishing industry, he may net support for the union too - 15th May Should we shoot the carthorse? Click, you decide - MyFarm, backed by the National Trust, is an online experiment aiming to give people back a sense of involvement in food production - 8th May Blowing billions on the fantasy of wind power - We have to give up the green mantra that the only way to cut our carbon emissions is renewable energy. The fastest way is to burn gas - 17th April That old WWF panda has got awfully arthritic - The bleak reality is that the battle to save the world’s wildlife is being lost every day, despite conservationists’ best efforts - 10th April Farming needs a rethink - The American Prairie Foundation has an inspiring answer to the question of what room there will be left for nature in 2050 - 3rd April Build away, you spivs, and show Osborne his folly - George Osborne’s budget speech last week was notable for the myths it perpetuated, and for the danger it poses to the rural environment - 27th March Britain’s nuclear confidence goes into meltdown - We may not have earthquakes like Japan’s, but with the possibility of obtaining all our energy from renewable sources, is nuclear worth the risk? - 20th March Burning this quango is an eco-disaster - The coalition is in a mess over advice from experts having given the impression that it doesn’t see the need for any - 13th March A little bait can end the scandal of wasted fish - The revulsion of fishing industry discards, as highlighted by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, may have forced a big change in thinking in Europe - 6th March Smashing up a natural beauty at 250mph - It’s Birmingham or bust for Philip Hammond, who must today convince us a limited high speed rail link money well spent - 27th February Well done, now our forests really are in jeopardy - We need to create a new vision for our woodlands — if they go back to being run by a state industry, the battle is lost - 20th February George, a pint of Old Tax Cut will revive us all - Gordon Brown really stuffed the pubs, but George Osborne could revive them to help bring a slightly sozzled nation back on board - 12th February Tim-ber! Down go the forest sale disaster myths - The disturbing thing is that the celebrities and politicians seem to know so little about the history of state-owned forestry in Britain - 6th February We have all been betrayed to the planning muggers - Does localism mean power to the people, which the coalition advocated when in opposition, or does it mean power to local businessmen? - 23rd January Fish hypocrisy — celebrity chefs’ dish of the day - Are celebrity chefs the solution or the problem, when it comes to our urge to strip every living creature from the sea and serve it up on a plate? - 16th January Flush with filthy lucre, rail chiefs foul our tracks - If you dropped raw sewage on the road you'd find yourself facing stiff fines. So why are there slicks of raw sewage all over the rail network? - 9th January That’s our cash leaking from Ulster’s pipes - Northern Ireland has more rainfall than most of the UK and it gets its water from a lake that is full at this time of year, so how did it run out of water? - 2nd January

Articles: 2010 Good news — electricity bills are on the rise - The rise is not just because of the price of fossil fuels, but because, by 2020, 31% of the price of electricity will consist of policy-driven charges - 19th December Look Jaws in the eye — he’s not such a monster - The paradox is that we are attracted by sharks as last symbols of wilderness, but our new-found blue-green correctness is skin-deep - 12th December A small taste of revenge against the tuna mafia - When it comes to what happens in the oceans, EU politicia The whale is stuck, so let’s talk about trees - There is cause for optimism on climate change legislation. Expectations are so low that politicians feel able to aim for modest achievements - 28th November A little nudge in our cars can save a fortune in fuel - Most drivers are willing to drive more fluidly and economically if they are nudged into doing it in a helpful, non-preachy way - 21st November The safety con lurking under the street lights - The assumption that splashing lots of light about at night deters crime and prevents road accidents is only partially true - 14th November The scalping of Scotland in the scallop war - If you worry about the destruction caused by harvesting scallops, you will be heartened by how the Isle of Man won its scallop war with Scotland - 7th November Finally, a deal. But what does it mean? - As a response to the species extinctions we face, Nagoya is still no more than a tentative brush with a branch as our boat careers towards the rapids - 31st October Mercury rising — the oil firms’ toxic secret - It is quite conceivable that the oil and gas industry produces as much mercury as the world’s coal-fired power stations - 24th October Green issue few dare confront: population control - Environmental thinkers have long argued that a growing human population is one of the main reasons for the erosion of natural diversity - 17th October The energy mess letting solar spivs into your home - The idea of selling us energy 'services' rather than just energy is an idea whose time should have come years ago - 10th October A nature lesson for us all from the veldt visionaries - About 210 rhinos have been killed by poachers in South Africa this year — Rhino horn is now more valuable by weight than gold - 3rd October The Frankenfish is feeding us a monstrous folly - Will the people who complain about GM one day be seen in the same light as those Luddites who smashed automated looms? - 26th September Only the Beatles can stop the bulldozers now - The saving of Madryn Street, birthplace of Ringo Starr, could signal the beginning of the end for a brutal and insensitive policy of demolition - 11th September Farmers are the fall guys for vanishing hedges - It is only the European Union’s rural development funds that have prevented Britain's loss of biodiversity from being worse - 5th September Our recycling policy goes up in flames - You have only to go on holiday in a different part of Britain to realise that rubbish recycling is in a state of anarchy - 29th August Our real green heroes dwarf Prince Preachy - Individuals make a difference and the reality is that dedicated rich individuals can make more of a difference than dedicated poor ones - 22nd August Putting hazards back on the road improves traffic - If you take away traffic lights and introduce risk by making it clear that pedestrians share their space, motorists instantly behave better - 1st August A few home truths about that new paint on your wall - The paint that is in every day usage around the country is both out of date and harmful to the environment. An overhaul is essential - 18th July The green way to revive towns hit by Prescott’s blitz - Edge Lane’s elegant Victorian houses will now be bulldozed to be replaced by new homes of a shockingly mediocre design - 11th July The power firms set on keeping us in the dark - If smart people can't work out how much they are paying for gas and electricity, what hope is there for everyone else? - 4th July Save the whale — slap sanctions on Sony and Toyota - The next time Japan doesn’t abide by the spirit of the whaling moratorium, its companies should be punished - 27th June Debt and shame may scupper Japan’s whalers - I confidently predict that it will affect its standing in international negotiations for years — no wonder Japan is madly denying it - 20th June The mackerel war has started in Cornwall - The generous mackerel will oblige anglers, provide a delight on the barbecue and a lump of cash for commercial fishermen - 13th June Prince Charles, the people’s streetfighter - My advice to anyone with anything horrible planned to be built for their back yard would be to write to the Prince of Wales - 6th June The countryside withers as bees buzz into town - there are now more bumblebee nests in cities, towns and suburbs than there are in the countryside. This is not good news for wildlife - 30th May Pylons march straight through a green dream - Green ambitions are all very well; it’s paying for them that hurts - 23rd May Obama’s green bill catches oil-covered wave - Come Tuesday , we can expect to hear US senators asking many questions about the realities of deep water exploration - 9th May A different attitude to travel - Precaution is generally wise when dealing with nature. It doesn’t pay to poke it, as it is ultimately bigger than us - 25th April Tackling litter has just got a lot messier for you - If we don't want Britain to look like a dump, then it's down to us to stop the slovenliness of our fellow citizens - 4th April A toothless West watches as Japan guts fish stocks - Somewhere along the line we have lost the understanding that science, not politics, should determine the common good - 28th March Japan's death sentence for the bluefin - Their victory raises the question of whether rationality can ever prevail in preventing endangered species from being obliterated - 21st March (see : Briefing: Trouble in Tokyo) Grandaddy of green warms to eco-sceptics - I couldn’t help wrestling with the irony that James Lovelock was actively cheering on those who would knock science from its pedestal - 14th March The first sound of spring is illegal bird slaughter - Tests of marksmanship include eagles, harriers, ospreys and honey buzzards. Even flamingos are regularly shot - 7th March Buying off the big polluters works - The EU’s emissions trading scheme is cutting emissions significantly below the levels they would otherwise have reached - 28th February Lives are being bulldozed and no one listens - In a country where housing is in short supply, good houses are being knocked down and not replaced at public expense - 21st February Don’t trust these bright sparks to keep our lights on - You wonder why Ofgem couldn’t have told us a bit earlier that we could be running out of gas - 14th February Why Food Inc should make us all retch - There are signs that the downside of super-efficient, globalised agriculture is coming our way - 7th February The tormented eel is slithering out of existence - It seems as if we are beginning at last to value this extraordinary fish just as it may be about to disappear - 31st January Sloppy science is seeping into the climate watchdog - The drip, drip of error gives ammunition to even the most scientifically illiterate Republican who wants to talk down Obama’s climate bill - 24th January Save the pub or let it die? You decide - A crackdown on supermarkets advertising cheap alcohol could turn back the clock and draw people to more civilised drinking - 10th January Stop, thief – the night sky is a great jewel - We are losing part of our heritage. The night sky is an amazing spectacle that 90% of the population doesn’t get to see - 3rd January

Articles: 2009 Brown can build his green legacy on coral reefs - Labour has the opportunity to create a legacy as great as Yellowstone national park, but can they pull it off? - 27th December Gasbag US and China leave us in a world of trouble - It’s a new world and you can’t fix the deals the way the big players used to - 20th December Meet climate change's evil twin - Ocean acidification has been quite scandalously left out of the reckoning in the past few weeks - 13th December Here’s how to gauge success at Copenhagen - Carbon trading may have its drawbacks but it is one of the few things to have cut greenhouse gases since the world first promised to do so in 1992 - 6th December Flushing out the high priests of climate change - It is up to the scientific establishment to set out better ground rules and insist on more openness - 29th November Wind of deceit drives Labour’s green energy plan - It looks as if, just before the Copenhagen climate conference, Labour is at last doing something aggressive about climate change - 22nd November Tuna vanish as their protectors samba - Those who are setting catch limits for Atlantic fish belong to the most dysfunctional environmental organisation on earth - 15th November A wonder food to be taken with a pinch of salt - Hunger, poverty and nutritional problems in the developing world can’t be fixed by growing commodity crops. What is needed are better diets - 8th November Meat needn’t mean murder to the planet - It felt like a political act to order an English breakfast last week after Lord Stern of Brentford’s remarks about a vegetarian diet - 1st November A modern moral dilemma: ordering fish - Is it really so outrageous to ask where our food comes from or to rate restaurateurs who give you that information? - 18th October Labour bodges green homes - Why is it that the government has been so slow on energy-efficient homes given its constant preaching on climate change? - 11th October No, minister – a lynx is not just for conference - What on earth was Hilary Benn doing suggesting the reintroduction of such species as the lynx to built-up, crowded, congested England? - 4th October A sudden whiff of optimism amid the CO2 in the air - What matters most at Copenhagen is the inclusion once again of the United States in a global effort to tackle climate change - 27th September EU’s King Johns trample over Magna Carta - Thanks to Magna Carta, citizens may take their governments to court if they believe they have misapplied the law in Britain but not in the EU - 20th September 2009 Start cutting CO2 before Captain Bonkers does - Personal responsibility does come into it when we are talking about climate change and many of us have been ducking that for too long - 6th September 2009 Dim thinking behind the new lightbulb laws - Why bleat that in tests people can't tell the difference between the light of a new fluorescent bulb and an incandescent one? The fact is that many people can - 30th August 2009 Take a pair of shears to the green advisers - We can no longer afford to pay for non-governmental organisations within the government - 16th August 2009 Sarkozy exposes EU guilt in a fishing disaster - The irony underlying Sarkozy’s conversion is that it is France’s fishing fleet that is principally responsible for over-fishing the giant bluefin - 19th July 2009 Killing mother nature with our creed - It is surprising that Britain has got as far as it has in considering a scheme to cause state-funded environmental damage - 5th July 2009 You’ve just put fishing in more peril, M’lud - Cornwall’s isolated position still means it has its modern equivalents of smugglers and excise men - 28th June 2009

The Daily Telegraph: Column name: Earthlog Remit/Info: *column ended February 2009* Section: Earth Role: Commentator Pen-name: Email: charles.clover@telegraph.co.uk Website: Earth | Earthcomment | Charles Clover Commissioning editor: Day published: Friday Regularity: Weekly Column format: Average length: 650/700 words

Articles: This is the blue whale of our time - The Atlantic bluefin tuna is a dark, steel-blue teardrop of a fish which migrates across whole oceans and can swim at speeds of up to 45mph. This top-level predator's only problem is that its flesh is one of the most delicious things on earth, eaten raw as sushi or sashimi, The Independent, 3rd June 2009 (See: Revealed: the bid to corner world's bluefin tuna market) When evidence battles with belief - The balance of evidence does strongly suggest that humanity's activities are leading to changes in our climate, despite the extreme rhetoric on both sides of the debate - 13th February Snow Britain: Cold snap leaves birds on thin ice - advice on how to help birds which are struggling in the snowy weather - 6th February 2009 Now is the time to think big about man-made climate change - If we want to halt global warming, we should expect surprises - 30th January 2009 Fishing for compliments - There were times during the making of our film, The End of the Line, when I have felt that someone up there was looking after us - 23rd January 2009 Fishing pirates of Newlyn caught in law's net - Newlyn fishermen fooled themselves that quota rules were unworkable and so it was morally acceptable to break them - 9th January 2009 Beware the fire sales of March - Our cash-strapped Government may be tempted to flog the forestry commission, but at what cost to the environment - 2nd January 2009 Farmers are second-class citizens now - Many of us have dreamed of becoming farmers. Well dream on - 19th December 2008 Food security matters after all - For years those who argued that it was important food was farmed in Britain were ridiculed. The Government is now changing its tune - 12th December 2008 We should let the US car industry die - The American car industry, like its banks, is an example of the failure of government regulation. Now it's time for a reckoning - 5th December 2008 The bluefin tuna: too valuable to save - The body that presides over the large fish of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic has decided to allow the magnificent bluefin tuna to continue being hunted to extinction - 28th November 2008 Otter's visit to Farne Island is no surprise - It is entirely believable that an otter has swum from the mainland of Northumberland to the Farne Islands, which start about a mile and a half off the coast - 22nd November 2008 On the house sparrow trail - The fall of the house sparrow is a mystery that is at last beginning to unravel - 21st November 2008 Nanoparticles - nothing to panic about - Every week for five years an email has dropped into my mailbox raising awful fears about "nanotechnology" - 14th November 2008 Barack Obama faces a daunting task on the environment - It is too early to conclude that Barack Obama’s election to the White House represents America’s return to the international fold on the environment and climate change - 7th November 2008 Financial crisis sees return of simple pleasures - Simple, homely pleasures enable us to rediscover our real, non-monetery values and take confidence from our own resourcefulness - 30th October 2008 Sarah Palin: her clothes, her shoes and her odd attitude to facts - on Sarah Palin's 'facts' that relate to endangered species, an oil pipeline, climate change and Alaska's contribution to the US energy supply - 23rd October 2008 US 25 years ahead of EU on fish conservation - environmental groups have challenged the executive when it breaches its legal obligation to conserve fish - 17th October 2008 Ed Miliband truly has his work cut out - there's something preposterous about creating a Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change - 10th October 2008 Lessons from the financial crisis - How can the financial crisis help us tackle environmental problems such as man-made climate change - 3rd October 2008 Paying the price of sea eagles - Protecting endangered species and areas of natural beauty can have considerable financial benefits - 26th September 2008 Reasons to be cheerful during credit crunch - A little research uncovers plently of reasons to be cheerful despite the current economic crisis - 19th September 2008 Greenpeace trial embarrasses Brown - Collapse of the case against Greenpeace activists for causing criminal damage is embarrassing to the Brown Government - 12th September 2008 Sarah Palin, enemy of the greens - Ms Palin's extreme anti-conservation stance may prove to be John McCain's Achilles heel - 5th September 2008 Did John Prescott know he was right? - Britain's population could exceed 77 million in fifty years. We will must plan for the future - 29th August 2008 Bumper year for British truffles - It is a bumper year for the English truffle, or so we are told by people in the know - 8th August 2008 archive

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