Paul spoke to The Independent about the UK food security crisis as heatwaves intensify: “Farmers are contending with an endless sequence of really extreme rain, heat, drought, and storm events, and this is all affecting the way in which we’re growing food.”

Paul spoke to BBC News about the risk that escalating heatwaves pose to UK food supplies: “British families will struggle to put food on the table as heatwaves escalate over the coming decades and cause multiple harvest failures in the UK and around the world.”

Time covered the study Paul co-authored on the environmental damage of the world’s highest-consuming 10% — most of them in the US and Europe — which it puts at up to $5.7 trillion a year.

The Guardian covered new research co-authored by Paul Behrens on the environmental damage caused by the world’s highest-consuming 10%. Paul said: “The top 10% are important not only because they cause the most damage but also because they hold the most leverage to reduce it.”

Paul spoke to The Telegraph about how a strong El Niño could compound climate shocks and drive displacement: “People generally don’t want to leave their homeland. Things have to become really bad before people move.”

In a letter to The Guardian responding to the Climate Change Committee’s warnings on the UK’s climate readiness, Paul urged support for stronger legislation: “I would urge them to pick the nature and national security bill that the campaign group Zero Hour has proposed.”

Paul spoke to Inside Climate News about scientists’ warning that ‘no additional warming’ methane targets entrench high emissions: “What worries us as scientists is that other countries are now seriously weighing these targets. The danger is that one country adopts them, then the next, and the next.”

Paul co-wrote this piece for The Conversation with Jasper Verschuur (TU Delft), setting out four ways to build a food system that can withstand supply-chain shocks — from green-ammonia fertiliser and larger stockpiles to plant-based proteins and electrifying transport instead of biofuels.

Paul spoke to The Guardian about UK plans to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying, calling the food-security case for intensive poultry “illusory” because the sector “depends on imports for feed and vitamins, while making us more vulnerable to disease outbreaks like avian flu”.

Paul spoke to New Scientist about food-security risks from the Iran war and Europe’s use of crops for fuel: “We’re burning about 15 million loaves of bread in Europe every day for biofuels. This is a crazy way to produce energy.”

Paul published an open letter via Sustain warning that proposed revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework could make it easier to approve intensive livestock units in the name of ‘food production’, undermining the food security the government seeks to promote.

Paul spoke to The Star about whether grass-fed beef is better for the climate, and the land-use trade-offs involved: “Land is not free. The question is, what else could we be using it for?”

In an expert comment for the University of Oxford, Paul argued that reforming UK food systems is an opportunity, not just an imperative: “We have to be straight with people about the choices ahead, because if we don’t lead this change on the front-foot, we’ll be forced into it anyway as food shocks intensify.”

Paul wrote this for The Conversation, recounting what nine experts told around 1,200 UK leaders at a national emergency briefing on the climate and nature crises.

Paul spoke to the Associated Press about a UN assessment showing methane pollution is still rising, even as projected near-term cuts offer some hope: “This report shows some very hard truths but also a sliver of hope.”

Paul spoke to Bloomberg about warnings that New Zealand’s weakened 2050 methane target sets a bad precedent other governments could follow.

Forbes covered Paul’s talk at the 2025 Oxford LEAP Conference on why a shift towards more plant-based diets is becoming hard to avoid: “This transition is going to happen one way or another.”

Paul spoke to BBC Future about French and Belgian towns that give residents free chickens to cut food waste, cautioning on bird flu and animal welfare: “I’m sure it could be done in the UK but I’m not sure it’s a good idea. Bird flu is an ever-present worry…”

Paul co-wrote this piece for The Conversation with Nathalie Pettorelli (ZSL), arguing the UK’s international climate and nature commitments could be written into domestic law through a Climate and Nature Bill.

Paul spoke to the Financial Times about whether weight-loss drugs and soft-drink taxes could dent global sugar demand and disrupt the sugar market.

Paul co-wrote this piece for The Conversation with Alon Shepon (Tel Aviv University), arguing that cutting sugar intake would benefit both public health and the environment.

Paul spoke to BBC Future about anxiety over ultra-processed plant-based foods: “ultra-processed plant-based foods generally have much better nutrition scores than ultra-processed meat foods.”

Paul told The Guardian that the FAO had failed to engage with scientists’ complaints about its COP28 livestock-emissions report: “It’s been like hitting a brick wall. The FAO has made grievous errors that need urgent correction to maintain its scientific credibility.”

Paul spoke to the Financial Times for this investigation into the scale and political influence of the agricultural lobby in the EU and US.

Paul and Matthew Hayek (NYU) told The Guardian that the FAO’s COP28 livestock-emissions report had seriously distorted their research, and called for it to be retracted.

Paul commented to The Guardian on a report finding that healthier ready-to-eat meals could deliver large EU climate benefits: “This report is pragmatic in suggesting that not every meal has to be optimally healthy, but that the overall offering of caterers and retailers should meet dietary guidelines.”

Paul co-authored the Nature Food study behind this Guardian report, which found more than 80% of EU farm subsidies go to animal products: “The vast majority of that is going towards products which are driving us to the brink.”

Paul led the Nature Food “double dividend” study covered here by BBC News: “you could roughly double the emissions that you save by following a plant-based diet if the land was allowed to re-wild or re-forest.”

Paul wrote this opinion piece for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, arguing that fears about the land footprint of renewable power are overstated. Wind and solar can use 10 to 100 times more space than fossil fuels watt for watt, but he sets out five reasons why that is not the obstacle it appears.

Paul spoke to The New York Times about cutting food waste, including a Finnish supermarket’s near-expiry “happy hour”: “climate change is as much a land issue and a food issue as anything else.”

Paul spoke to The New York Times about the climate cost of food waste: “As you get higher and higher income, you get more and more profligacy in food waste.”