50 People Who Buggered Up Britain

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But what I've made work really well is massively parallel processes [a system of linked computers tackling problems on a super scale]. Under her watch, deforestation has reduced by nearly 75% and millions of square miles of reserves have been given to traditional communities. But Petrini, an Italian leftie of the old school, has a far more serious purpose than saving the pilchard or Parma ham. As they bored their wells deeper and deeper into the ground and sucked out ever more underground water, so the water table had dropped alarmingly and ever deeper wells were required.

Nearly one in five of those listed comes from the US, and one in three is from a developing country, suggesting that grassroots resourcefulness will be as important as money and technology in the future. From the links below you can view a 10m grid, against a tennis court backdrop, to assist in visualising crowd densities and crowd sizes. A 2016 refurb turned this beloved Marylebone boozer into a smart gastropub, opening up multiple floors of the Grade-II listed Georgian townhouse for private hire. Another turns coal into natural gas, speeding up what is essentially a natural process and reducing both the energy needed to extract the fossil fuel and the amount of pollution caused when it is burned. By harnessing the power of microbes that his scientists have discovered deep in the sea and under the ground, he thinks we could revolutionise fuel production and bring down emissions.

Ongoing flooding has destroyed homes forcing children and their families to leave their homes, some of whom are now sheltering in makeshift structures in the open.

Andrew Kimbrell, 51, was a concert pianist and music teacher in New York before he joined an emerging breed of activist lawyers forcing governments to take the environment much more seriously. Tamminen argues that the 5% of the world population who live in the US are responsible not for 25% of the world's climate emissions, as the textbooks say, but for at least 50% of them if you include the energy needed to power the Chinese factories that are churning out plastic toys and other mass consumer goods for the voracious US market. Only the largest parties need apply - you can hire the lower ground floor for up to 300 guests, or, yes, the entire restaurant can be yours, with capacity for a whopping 650 people. The soft-spoken Englishman, a director of Arup and one of the world's leading bridge builders, is now the master planner of the world's first true eco city. Last year in the US Supreme Court, he defeated the Bush administration's policy of refusing to regulate global warming.It had looked certain that the world's politicians would back a US proposal giving the World Trade Organisation the power to override international environment treaties, but he shamed the ministers into voting it down. It won't save the planet, but it offers a perfect example of the simple steps that can make a difference.

In November, China belatedly released a five-year plan for environmental protection, for the first time mentioning the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions, but it gave no targets or deadlines for doing so. And some got on the list because they were considered the driving forces behind the decision-makers.

The following year, the village joined in to rebuild a second dam, and by 1996 Gopalpurans had recreated nine johads that between them held millions of litres of water. Other proposals are emerging and it will take two more years to thrash out a system that will please everyone. Angela Merkel, 53, has inherited Tony Blair's mantle as the politician forcing climate change the hardest on to the world stage, and she is a formidable advocate. Colonel Saab’s gorgeous, elaborate interiors are a mix of Persian rugs, Indian antiques and gorgeous embroidered textiles. This is the best-known cinematic critique of the ecological destruction in China, but many other artists and film-makers are now addressing the problems of the country's breakneck race for economic growth.

She left government office in 2005, is now a Tehran city councillor and heads the Centre for Peace and the Environment. But he may play a much greater role in the global environment debate as chairman of Eskom, the state-owned power company that runs South Africa's only nuclear plant and, starting in 2008, is hoping to build dozens of fourth-generation small-scale nuclear stations. New nuclear plants are so costly that spending the same on micropower can save two to 10 times more CO2, and sooner. Home to one of the finest medical science libraries in Europe, booking The Royal College of Surgeons means dining in the company of groundbreaking history. Not content with setting existing microbes to work, he wants to create an artificial bacterium, with genes, traits and abilities introduced from beyond nature's catalogue.Each guest will have 3 small sandwiches, a mini pasty, a sausage roll, a whist pie and a piece of cake. The Garden Room is particularly lovely, offering a private bar and lots of natural light for private dinners of up to 60 people.