22 Facts About Roger Harrabin

Roger Harrabin was born on 28 March 1955 and is a British journalist who was the BBC's energy and environment analyst until July 2022.

Roger Harrabin has broadcast on environmental issues since the 1980s and has won many awards in print, TV and radio.

Roger Harrabin is an honorary Fellow at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, a visiting fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford, an Associate Press Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and has received an honorary Doctorate of Science from Cranfield University.

Roger Harrabin attended Stivichall Primary School and King Henry VIII School.

Roger Harrabin then studied English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he was president of the Junior Common Room.

Roger Harrabin began his career on the Coventry Evening Telegraph.

Roger Harrabin developed a specialism reporting on the city's ethnic minority population, who were previously largely ignored in the media.

Roger Harrabin won a prize in the British Press Awards in 1980 for a series of features tracing the roots of Coventry Asians back to Pakistan and India.

Roger Harrabin joined the independent Thames Television News as a producer while freelancing for several years as a Saturday sports sub-editor in Fleet Street on the News of the World and the Sunday Mirror.

Roger Harrabin joined BBC radio's The World at One, where he won a succession of Media Natura Environment Awards for reports on issues related to the environment and development.

Roger Harrabin won the One World Media Award after revealing how changes in trade rules would affect sugar workers in Guyana, and a Sony Silver Award for reports on development dilemmas in Africa.

Roger Harrabin was shortlisted for Sony Reporter of the Year.

Roger Harrabin won an award for an investigation into flower-growing in Kenya which showed that multi-national companies tended to take better care of their workers than local firms.

Roger Harrabin won another award for a feature on child labour in Bangladesh which demonstrated that for many girls, work in a "sweatshop" was preferable to the other alternatives of prostitution or working as a domestic servant in the Persian Gulf.

Roger Harrabin did reports for Newsnight on uncertainty in climate forecasting and on geoengineering to combat climate change.

Roger Harrabin won the Media Natura Award for TV documentaries for Gas Muzzlers, a film on green energy investment in President Bush's America.

Roger Harrabin popularised discussion of these "embedded" emissions, and showed that there were problems in all methodologies comparing international greenhouse gas emissions.

Roger Harrabin reported for TV from a Chinese cave on how scientists are using stalagmites to decipher past monsoon patterns.

Roger Harrabin was founder presenter of BBC Radio 4's environment magazine Costing the Earth, which was created to bring a lighter touch to environmental issues and to question environmental goals.

Roger Harrabin argues that the media should find new ways of exploring long-term risk issues such as preventive health and security of water, food, energy and climate.

Roger Harrabin questioned media demands for increased rail safety investment because trains were already statistically much safer than roads, which were starved of funds.

Roger Harrabin co-wrote the BBC's guidance on reporting on risk with the head of BBC Politics, Sue Inglish.