Top 10 U.K. Social Media Influencers in Energy & Environment
Using our extensive media database, we compiled a list of the top 10 Social Media Influencers throughout the United Kingdom and operating in the Energy & Environment space. Our solution makes it easy to find — and connect with — the influencers that matter to you.
Create custom media lists that are automatically updated, send multimedia emails, and track who opened emails and where they clicked, all right from the platform itself. And our module, Influencer Streams, shows you exactly what influencers are talking about on social media, so you can personalize pitches and amplify your message.
*Data as of July 2022

Followers: 497K

2. Damian Carrington
Bio: I’m Environment Editor at the Guardian – DMs open
Location: London
Followers: 69K

4. James Murray
Bio: Editor of @Incisive BusinessGreen.com – tweeting in a personal capacity, check out @BusinessGreen for the official feed.
Location: London
Followers: 50K

5. Leo Hickman
Bio: Director/editor of @CarbonBrief. Served 16 years at the Guardian. Author of A Life Stripped Bare, The Final Call, Will Jellyfish Rule the World?…
Followers: 39K

6. Matt McGrath
Bio: Environment correspondent for BBC News – covering all the green issues, interested in scicomm but also rugby, GAA, Munster & Ireland
Location: London, England
Followers: 38K

7. David Sheppard
Bio: Financial Times Energy Editor. Oil. Environment. Middle East. Trading. Hearts. Ex-Reuters.
Location: London
Followers: 37K

8. John Vidal
Bio: John Vidal is a journalist. He was for many years the Guardian’s environment editor
Location: London, Wales, wherever
Followers: 31K

9. Fiona Harvey
Bio: Writing about the environment full-time since 2004. Seen a lot of environment since then. All tweeting is personal. In the Woman’s Hour Power List 2020.
Followers: 31K

10. Akshat Rathi
Bio: – Senior reporter, Bloomberg News (@climate)
– Writing a book on scaling climate solutions
– Newsletter http://bit.ly/bbg-net-zero
– akshat.rathi@proton.me
Followers: 30K
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