Jeremy Leggett: Solar and Rewilding Pioneer

When Jeremy Leggett decided to abandon the fossil fuel industry in favour of fighting climate change, he didn't take half measures. Cutting his teeth in Greenpeace, he founded the Solar Century business, the associated charity SolarAid, sat on a huge range of advisory panels and most recently founded Highlands Rewilding to bring nature based solutions into the mix. No wonder he was awarded the prestigious 2025 Blue Planet award.

Here's what we discuss:

• Setting up a solar company when solar was expensive
• Bringing light to the desperately poor via SolarAid
• Navigating the post-truth world
• Peak oil in an age of fracking
• The need for carbon removals and the scope for nature based solutions
• Monetising natural solutions amid the offsetting controversy