Alister Doyle

Alister Doyle is a journalist and writer who has focused for 20 years on climate change and the environment.

His first book, "The Great Melt" - accounts from the frontlines of climate change - was published by Flint Books in October 2021 - it tells the stories of people living by the shoreline or by melting glaciers, and to scientists trying to understand what is happening. He visits places including Fiji, Panama, Antarctica, Sweden and Peru.

Christiana Figueres, an architect of the 2015 Paris climate agreement between almost 200 nations when she was head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, wrote the foreword and called it "an innovative wake-up call for action from the fragile frontlines".

Born in Devon, Alister studied French and Spanish at Oxford University and worked at Reuters for 36 years - with postings to Brussels, Tegucigalpa and Managua (where he met his Norwegian wife), Oslo and Paris. He won a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 2011-12. He lives in Norway.

His award-winning journalism work has taken him to almost 50 countries, with trips to ice from Greenland to Antarctica. He is among reporters who have spent most time covering UN climate negotiations - COP26, the UN climate change summit in Glasgow in 2021, was his 14th COP.

on Twitter, he´s at @alisterdoyle also runs the website https://www.sealevelrise.com/