Nick Nuttall is a freelance communications consultant and former Director of Communications and Outreach and Spokesperson for the UN Environment headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya and the

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established an international environmental treaty to combat "dangerous human interference with the climate system", in part by stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in th ...

headquartered in Bonn, Germany.

Early life and education

Nuttall was born in

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, UK, the son of Ernest and Olive Nuttall. He was educated at Greenhill High School and attended the

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. After graduating, Nuttall held positions as a stock, bond and commodity broker in the UK and the United States, having begun his working life as a singer with the US pop group The Albany Bridge Band.

Career

Journalist

Before joining the

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, he was the Environment and Technology correspondent at ''

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'' from 1989, having worked for various newspapers and magazines including ''

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'', ''

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'' the ''

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'' and '' London Evening News'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. Nuttall was known at ''The Times'' for some of the more exotic front-page stories and is thought to be the only journalist in the UK to have a story about a former hairdresser from Hartlepool who had invented a heat shield or coating for the US space shuttle based on doing perms in his salon—printed on 1 April with the Editor's caveat 'This is not an April Fool.' Nuttall has won various awards including one of the inaugural BT technology journalist of the year awards for a feature in The Times on

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and The Tidy Britain Group's Queen Mother's Birthday Awards.

United Nations

United Nations Environment Programme

Nuttall joined the

United Nations Environment Programme The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system. It was established by Maurice Strong, its first director, after the United Nations Conference on th ...

in 2001. He was, until December 2013, the spokesperson, principal speechwriter and creative writer for UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director, Achim Steiner. Nuttall joined UNEP in 2001 working for former UNEP Executive Director and former German Minister of the Environment,

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and is credited with collaborating with Töpfer to develop the UNEP theme "Environment for Development" in order to re-position UNEP in the early 21st century. During his time at UNEP, Nuttall was responsible for transforming the organization's media profile and, in collaboration with its Executive Director, inspiring several landmark reports including the 2009 Climate Change Science Compendium; the Natural Fix The Role of Ecosystems in Climate Mitigation and the Dead Planet, Living Planet: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Restoration for Sustainable Development. He also spearheaded the communications aimed at popularizing the concepts and ideas behind UNEP's Global Green New Deal/Green Economy Initiative.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

In January 2014, he joined

. He was responsible for supporting the press and communications of Executive Secretaries Christiana Figueres and

Patricia Espinosa Patricia Espinosa Cantellano (born October 21, 1958) is a Mexican diplomat who served as the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2016 to 2022. She was Secretary of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet o ...

and across the Framework Convention’s operations. He was the UN's Spokesperson for the securing of a new universal climate agreement at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. Global Climate Action Summit Nuttall became Director of Communications and Spokesperson for th
Global Climate Action Summit
(GCAS)which took place in September 2018 joining the team in March 2018. Here he coordinated the communications efforts of business, cities, regional governments and citizens across a bold range of announcements aimed at Taking Climate Ambition to the Next Level by 2020. Nuttall participated in th
New American Road Trip
which left San Francisco after the Summit and took the outcomes of GCAS in an electric car journey across the United States to the UN in New York in September 2019. Nuttall is currently working as Strategic Communications Director at th
Earth Day Network
for its 50th anniversary in 2020 while also advisin
Nouveaux Media
which specializes in video and digital marketing. Nuttall is also currently Strategic Communications Director for the climate action platfor
We Don't Have Time
and is a member of the trustees o
TVE

References

External links

* http://newsroom.unfccc.int/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Nuttall, Nick British officials of the United Nations Year of birth missing (living people) Living people United Nations Environment Programme Alumni of the University of St Andrews