Making a clean break

Australian
Monday 29/9/2008 Page: 40

AFTER two years as The Australian's environment writer Matthew Warren has been poached to be the chief executive of the Clean Energy Council, which represents the renewable energy industry in Australia.

Some tree huggers were shocked in 2006 when Warren, after 14 years in the environmental policy field, switched from the NSW Minerals Council of Australia to The Oz's environment round. Despite highly publicised run-ins with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change head Rajendra Pachauri and Australian Greens leader Bob Brown, Warren has been widely regarded in the media as a tough but fair analyst of the evolving environment debate in Australia.