Oliver Jeffers: The most important people at COP26 were the taxi drivers
Conversations on climate with cool people


Lily Cole: We need to switch the narrative from sacrifice to improvement

Benjamin Zephaniah: Most great revolutions start from the bottom and come up

Mya-Rose Craig: Conservation today continues to be entrenched in its colonial roots

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim: Women and Indigenous peoples can help win the war on climate change

Captain Paul Watson: We’ve become a bunch of conceited naked apes, divine legends in our minds

Sunita Narain: It’s coyness that’s killing action on climate change

Dr Rupert Read: If you don’t care about non-human life you don’t care about human life

Caroline Lucas: GDP is a really rubbish measurement on just about every count

Sir Tim Smit: People could be paid to be champions of the natural world

Jojo Mehta: Putting mass damage to nature on a par with mass damage to people creates an equivalence

Ali Keskitalo: The world needs green power, but we have no more land to give

Rachel Kyte: Design solutions for the most vulnerable and poorest first

Denis Hayes: If you’re wrong on climate, get out of office and put in someone who will act

Hugo Tagholm: We can’t litter pick our way out of the problem

Juliet Davenport: Climate change is mentioned less than cats in TV dramas

John Elkington: We need more women leaders at every level in our society

Dr Tara Shine: Lots of people making small changes add up to a lot of impacts

Susie Crick: If we stop buying single-use plastics, they will disappear

Sir Patrick Holden: The true cost of cheap food? We have only 30 harvests left

Tim Christophersen: We need the imagination to see that a different world is possible

Gleb Raygorodetsky: Indigenous peoples have to deal with the consequence of someone else’s decisions

David Ritter: The dead hand of the coal industry is an assault on Australian democracy

Nasreen Al-Amin: We have to use Indigenous knowledge

Sir Jonathon Porritt: It all comes down to whether our politicians have got the long-term vision
