Mark Lynas - Advisor

Lynas was born in Fiji in 1973, and grew up in Peru, Spain and the UK. After gaining a first-class honours degree in history and politics from the University of Edinburgh (where he also edited the university's student newspaper), he joined a web start-up called OneWorld.net - helping turn it into the world's most-accessed internet portal for human rights and sustainable development issues. He was also active in the flourishing environmental direct action scene during the late 1990s, joining road protests and helping mount 'decontamination' exercises against genetically-modified crops, as well as participating in 'Reclaim the Streets' protests in London and Oxford.

Since leaving OneWorld in 2000 to work full-time on climate change, Mark has also been active as a broadcast commentator and journalist, writing for the Guardian, Observer, New Statesman and various other publications, as well as appearing on radio and television news and discussion programmes ranging from Newsnight to the BBC World Service.

His book High Tide: News from a Warming World was published by Flamingo/HarperCollins on 1 March 2004. He lives in Oxford, but has given talks and presentations on climate change and his travels for High Tide as far away as the United States and Australia.

He recently published Six Degrees - about the future of global warming published by 4th Estate (HarperCollins). This book outlines, degree by degree, what climate change has in store for humanity and the planet over this century. Based on scores of peer-reviewed scientific articles on the latest outputs from computer models, plus what palaeoclimate reconstructions tell us about past warm events in earth history, Six Degrees is a terrifying warning that humanity ignores at its peril.

Mark was selected as one of US science journal Seed Magazine's Revolutionary Minds in 2004, and his book High Tide was longlisted for both the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the Guardian First Book Award.