Lucy Siegle is a UK based journalist and broadcaster who specialises in climate and nature. She has contributed internationally to climate and nature protection including through the UN Oceans Dialogue and the COP26 summit. She is also a speech-writer and has written for global leaders and A-listers on these topics.
Lucy is the author of books including Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (and you) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again and To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing out the World, published by Fourth Estate London, the basis for hit Netflix documentary, The True Cost, (she is co-executive producer). Her first planetary quiz book Be the Ultimate Friend of the Earth is published July 2022 (MomBooks).
Lucy is known for accessible advice that humanises sustainability science, including for The Times newspaper. She came up with the #30wears rule for new garments as a way of encouraging individuals to engage with fashion waste and impact.
Recently she worked on Dispatches for Channel 4, presenting The Truth About Your Recycling uncovering the extensive use of incineration in the UK, and on radio presents the Climate Clinic segment for Radio 4 PM with Mike Berners Lee. She is known as the environmental go-to for BBC’s The One Show where she has also stood in as main presenter alongside Adrian Chiles and Chris Evans.
An experienced host, debate chair and keynote speaker, Lucy recently presented the Net Zero conference for Business Green alongside editor, James Murray interviewing a variety of contributors from Amber Rudd MP to the Head of Facebook UK. Lucy recently compared the UK’s National Manufacturing Summit and the Good Business Summit in Liverpool. In October 2021 she hosted a climate summit with global speakers for Edinburgh Science at the Dubai Expo.
During COP26 Lucy reported for Times Radio and presented a series of Live Events for the The Times and worked with the singer and climate activist Ellie Goulding. Lucy is a trustee for Surfers Against Sewage and a member of British Canoeing. She kayaks most days on the non tidal Thames where she lives near Hampton Court, removing waste plastic from the water.