50 People Who Buggered Up Britain

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Countries have fallen over themselves to plant the most and be linked with Maathai: Indonesia planted 79m in a day; Turkey says it has planted 500m, Mexico 250m, and India says that it will replant six million hectares of degraded forest. It also allows science to set the optimum level of emissions; it gets round long-standing US objections that poor countries should be part of a global agreement; and it is inherently pro-business, because it encourages rich and poor countries to trade emissions between themselves. British charity Save the Children on Thursday said more than 100 people, including 16 children, had died and hundreds of thousands were forced from their homes in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia due to flash flooding. Carlo Petrini, 58, is the only anti-McDonald's activist who has been welcomed to the offices of David Cameron, David Miliband, Prince Charles, Al Gore and Barack Obama.

In 2005, renewables produced one sixth of the world's total electricity and a third of new electricity. We're not going to come up with a miracle solution - we'll need thousands or tens of thousands of solutions. Ma Jun set up the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, which cooperates with the central government in a non-confrontational - but highly pragmatic - campaign strategy.She has worked as a farmer since the age of seven, never went to school and has never heard the words "wheat" or "turnip". Almost one-third of London emissions come from City airport and Heathrow, and there are plans for both to nearly double in size. Hosking has clearly tapped into a new public mood and has found that there is no need to wait for governments to effect change. Now the revolution he helped shape is coming, and Lovins says the US can eliminate all oil use by 2050, "and know unprecedented prosperity". Today, Devi has farmers queueing up for seeds at her project's base, a 40-acre farm in the foothills of the Himalayas in Dehradun.

Bartholomew, 67, is now heavily influencing the Pope and has shared a green stage with him several times in Rome.

At 2am at the 2002 Earth Summit , he made one of the most impassioned speeches heard at a global meeting. Craig Venter is often referred to as a "maverick" scientist, with the implication that he is a rogue, a bad boy of biology. Not only does he lead a union of several million agitated Indonesian peasants, but he also heads Via Campesina, the global movement of increasingly militant peasant farmers which campaigns for land reform in 80 countries. But his speech last month at Bali, where he managed to criticise the US without saying it should commit to anything, shows that, at 59, he remains a politician at heart. Kimbrell is now working with others to devise a new concept of 'natural law' based on the idea that humans are just one part of a wider community of beings and that the welfare of each member of that community depends on the welfare of the earth as a whole.