Put People First -London Climate Change March 2009 - Tony Jupiter
Tony Juniper is an environmental campaigner and the Green Party's General Election candidate for Cambridge. He began his career as an ornithologist, working with Birdlife International. From 1990 he worked at Friends of the Earth. He was the organisation's executive director from 2003-2008 and also the Vice Chair of Friends of the Earth International from 2000-2008.
Tony Juniper now works as an independent sustainability and environment adviser, including as a senior associate with the Cambridge University Program for Industry, and special adviser with The Prince of Wales' Rainforest Project. He speaks and writes on many aspects of sustainabilty and sits on several advisory panels, including with the British Council. He is a member of the Green New Deal Group and the author of several books, including A Guide to the Parrots of the World (1998), Spix's Macaw (2002) and How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take To Change A Planet? (2007)