Selected Work: Presenter, director, executive producer, camera
The Case for the Climate | earthrise – Systems Change | Al Jazeera English
The solutions for the environmental crisis exist, and there are plenty of films on previous earthrise series to prove this. Many of them have the potential to be transformative but our current…
Believing in Change | earthrise – Systems Change | Al Jazeera English
I’ve been producing and presenting environmental programmes for over a decade now. As the years have progressed, I’ve come to believe that knowledge and data alone are not sufficient to mitigate the…
Planetary Justice | earthrise – Systems Change | Al Jazeera English
In this second programme of the 2023 series of earthrise, we follow on from the first and continue exploring how the law is forcing action on the climate and nature crisis. In the Peruvian Andes, I…
Business Critical | earthrise – Systems Change | Al Jazeera English
In this episode, which has been nominated for a prestigious Association of International Broadcasters award in the Politics and Business category, I explore how corporations are helping transform the…
Change of Power | earthrise | Al Jazeera
I find it really exciting to think that the world is in the middle of the greatest energy transition since the Industrial Revolution. But I am also deeply worried because it’s clear that transition…
Healthy Eating | earthrise | Al Jazeera English
As populations grow and incomes rise, we are eating more and more meat and dairy. I was amazed to learn the average person now eats over 40 kg of meat a year. Think 350 quarter pounders! Intensive…
Fixing the Food Cycle | earthrise | Al Jazeera English
Our global food system is totally topsy-turvy. It fuels climate change, degrades land, pollutes soil and water supplies and wipes out wildlife, including the pollinators we need for our crops. Far…
Natural Wisdom | earthrise | Al Jazeera English
I was lucky enough to spend a month with the Shipibo tribe in the Peruvian Amazon in 2015. This trip opened my eyes to the crucial role indigenous peoples play in protecting nature. It also made me…
Wild Recovery | earthrise | Al Jazeera
This is the first programme of the latest series of earthrise which I exec’d from a hotel room in Doha, Qatar, during the COVID-19 pandemic. With restrictions on movement in place around the world,…
Crisis…What Crisis? | People & Power | Al Jazeera English
One of the things that really baffles me is why governments have failed to respond effectively to the climate crisis our planet faces, despite having known about the causes and likely consequences of…
Can the pandemic spur action on climate change? | Inside Story | Al Jazeera English
My first studio discussion programme was a special for Al Jazeera’s Inside Story strand, to mark the fifth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement on 12th December 2020. In 2015, world leaders…
Rewilding Patagonia | earthrise
The human footprint is so huge that it affects an astonishing three-quarters of the land on the planet. Only a few pockets of wilderness remain on Earth today. In response, a worldwide movement is…
Wasteland Renewal | earthrise
Bangka Island in Indonesia has a long history of tin mining. Years of extraction have taken their toll on the land, leaving it acidic, cratered and unsuitable for agriculture. A group of businessmen…
Power of Rubbish | earthrise
With a population of nearly 20 million and counting, Sao Paolo is the largest city in Brazil and the eighth largest in the world. And as its population grows, so too does its waste. For nearly three…
Winds of Change | earthrise
Two stories about communities adjusting their way of living, and dying, to reduce carbon emissions. Over the past 20 years the Danish island of Samso’s 4000 inhabitants have moved from a reliance on…
The People’s Voice | earthrise
Public anger and disillusionment at how politicians are failing to tackle the environmental crisis is on the rise. I wanted to make a programme that explored this. Luckily, our shooting schedule…
Reenergising Bhubaneswar | earthrise
The Indian state of Orissa faces an energy crisis. But because of climatic fluctuations and a 35% reduction in rainfall, water catchments in reservoirs and dams have been drastically reduced and some…
War and Conflict | Ancient Inventions | Discovery Channel
In this programme about inventions catalysed by war and conflict, Terry Jones examines the search for the ultimate weapon, as well as the ability of doctors to repair the damage such weapons cause.…
Fighting Insectageddon | earthrise
I was shocked when I learnt about a 2017 study that revealed insect numbers in some parts of Germany had declined by over 75% in the previous 27 years. I really wanted to make a programme that…
Sex and Love | Ancient Inventions | Discovery Channel
In this programme, Terry Jones focuses on inventions related to sex and love. Foundation make-up was first worn in Ancient Egypt, not to enhance beauty but to protect labourers constructing the…