Carbon Briefly: Nick Nuttall
People working on climate or energy give Carbon Brief a sense of their lives beyond the nine-to-five…
Nick Nuttall is the head of communications and outreach for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which is headquartered in Bonn, Germany. From 2001-2013, he worked on communications at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Before his time at UNEP, he was the environment and technology correspondent at The Times.
Nick Nuttall. Credit: IISD Reporting Services/Flickr.
Book
The Last Battle by CS Lewis. A book full of magic, fable and allegory that asks the reader to look beyond their narrow life and at how belief can transcend reality.
Place
Turf Moor, home of Burnley Football Club. Reminds me of the simplicity of life as a child, and love of standing with my dad, brother and friends of my childhood.
Film
Local Hero. A witty, eccentric, beautiful film about human greed, but also, ultimately, human values for place, environment and to rise above the grubbiness and destructive power of money for money’s sake.
Activity
Got to be tennis and playing the guitar.
Music
Berlin-based pop singer/songwriter Bernadette La Hengst and her album Save the World with this Melody (Trikont Records).
Food
Real, locally sourced creamy Lancashire cheese and, before becoming a vegetarian, any Lancashire meat pie!
TV
Blackadder with Rowan Atkinson.
Role model
Klaus Toepfer, former German environment minister and head of UNEP who taught me so much about the environment, politics, diplomacy and a never-say-die attitude.
Luxury
A lifetime’s supply of Hophead ale from the Sussex-based Dark Star Brewery.
Essential
My three children — Freddie, Tara and Bertie, my sister Gilly and brother John.