Bertie Harrison-Broninski

Our latest collection, 'The future unrefined', is an online magazine with 24 articles and podcasts covering the challenge of raw materials in the 21st Century. I commissioned, wrote, or hosted most of the pieces, and designed and built the webpages.

I worked as a researcher on this book for John Sweeney, investigating new allegations about her & Epstein, and putting together an enormous document tracking her movement day-by-day over decades.

In 2020, I sold a two year investigation into Oxford Professor Andy Orchard to Al Jazeera, which became the first episode of their 'Degrees of Abuse' podcast series. You can listen to this here. I later helped with research for other aspects of the Degrees of Abuse series.

At the beginning of August, hundreds of NGOs signed a letter to Kenyan President William Ruto, alleging that US and European governments and companies had “seized” the inaugural Africa Climate Summit due to begin in Nairobi on Monday 4th September, in order to “hijack Africa’s just energy transition”.
Their criticism paid particular mention to international management consultancy McKinsey & Company, who were removed from the summit website and events calendar shortly after. President Ruto has...

Bertie speaks to investigative journalists Eli Moskowitz and Mira Sys about biofuel fraud in the EU.

Copa Cogeca is the largest agricultural lobbying group in Europe, claiming to be “the united voice” of 22 million farmers. But a new investigation from Lighthouse Reports suggests the true size of their membership is far smaller than this – and that the group uses its unrivalled influence to block climate and environmental reform, and lobby for industrial farmers at the expense of smallholders.
Bertie spoke to Thin Lei Win, Lighthouse’s Lead Food Systems Reporter, about the story.
Audio editi...

Guinean bauxite is the source of aluminium in everything from our office buildings to our cars - but the bauxite supply chain is a black box of human rights issues.

Bertie Harrison-Broninski explores sustainable fashion in a review of Lucianne Tonti's book, 'Sundressed: Natural Fibres and the Future of Fashion'.

Land and Climate Review breaks down the basics on the big battery law.

My data vis for our latest collection.

Following US Climate Envoy John Kerry's latest remarks on overpopulation, Bertie spoke to Diana Ojeda, Associate Professor in sustainability, environment and development at the Universidad de los Andes' Interdisciplinary Center for Development Studies, about why many scholars and activists are wary of populationist narratives in climate planning.
Audio editing by Vasko Kostovski.
Further reading:
'For reproductive justice in an era of Gates and Modi – the violence of India’s population polici...

Bertie speaks to Professor Laura Murphy about international supply chains and forced labour in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region, where more than a million Uyghur people have been detained in concentration camps.
The solar panel industry has been disentangling itself from the Uyghur genocide for several years, since researchers publicised how much polysilicon was produced by Uyghur forced labour. Professor Murphy's work has now found that the electric vehicle industry is risking a similar pa...

Bertie speaks to Wijnand Stoefs, Carbon Market Watch's policy lead on Carbon Removal, about how EU policy is developing around greenhouse gas removals.
They discuss the Carbon Removal Certification Framework, along with other legislation like the Innovation Fund and the Sustainable Carbon Cycles Communication, as well as talking about risks with bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, and failures of France's Label Bas-Carbone.
Futher reading:
Read Carbon Market Watch's position paper on t...

Bertie speaks to fashion journalist and sustainability consultant Lucianne Tonti about her new book Sundressed: Natural Fabrics and the Future of Clothing.
They discuss issues with sustainability indexes and modern fibres created from crude oil and trees, vs the benefits of clothes made from natural materials produced through regenerative agriculture.
Podcast editing by Vasko Kostovski.
Futher reading:
Click here to visit The Negative Emissions Gamble, our curated collection of articles and p...