Oliver Tickell is a British journalist, author and campaigner on health and environment issues, and author of the book ''Kyoto2'' which sets out a blueprint for effective global climate governance. His articles have been published in all the broadsheet newspapers and numerous magazines including ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. He is an experienced broadcaster on the BBC home and world services including "Today", "PM", "Costing the Earth", "Farming World" and "Farming Today". He studied physics at Oxford University and is a founding fellow of the Green Economic Institute.

Family

His father was environmentalist and diplomat Sir

Crispin Tickell Sir Crispin Charles Cervantes Tickell (25 August 1930 – 25 January 2022) was a British diplomat, environmentalist, and academic. Background Tickell was the son of writer Jerrard Tickell and Renée ( Haynes), a great-granddaughter of Thomas ...

(1930-2022).

Green Party candidate

In 2002, 2006 and 2010 Oliver Tickell was a candidate in

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for

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, representing the

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, but was not elected. He also stood for the Greens against

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in Henley at the 2001 General Election, finishing fifth, with 2.6% of the vote.

Editorship of ''The Ecologist''

Upon his appointment in October 2013 as editor of ''

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'', Oliver Tickell said: :"I am very excited to being taking on this role. The Resurgence Trust is a fantastic place for ''

'' to be. I have been reading ''

'' since the 1980s and am ever-mindful of its values and principles. My aim is to manifest those values in a different media landscape and I particularly want to make the website more interactive so it becomes a focus for ideas and debate serving the green movement." In January 2014, ''

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'' magazine published the following criticism of Tickell: :"Most hacks and news organisations have long blocked or junked rants from the Lockerbie-bombing

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Patrick Haseldine. Not so ''

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by the man who styles himself 'Emeritus Professor of Lockerbie Studies'. Haseldine has long claimed that

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was blown up by the

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n government in order to kill an unfortunate Swedish passenger,

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, the UN Assistant Secretary-General and

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Publications

* ''Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse'', London, Zed Books (July 2008) Hardback: Paperback: also published in the US by Palgrave. * "On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction: There's no 'adaptation' to such steep warming. We must stop pandering to special interests, and try a new, post-Kyoto strategy
''The Guardian'', Monday 11 August 2008
* Article: ''"Thorium: Not ‘green’, not ‘viable’, and not likely"'' Transcrip

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References

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