[2] NGOs credited policy changes at the European commission,[3] international financial institutions[4] and wildlife regulatory agencies[5] in part to Neslen’s work.
Neslen began his career at the City Limits magazine and worked as the international editor of for Red Pepper and as a broadcast journalist for the BBC.
[10] After moving to Brussels, Neslen began working for The Guardian in 2014 as the paper’s Europe environment correspondent,[11] where he contributed to its award-winning Keep it in the ground[12] campaign.
His investigative reports often focused on how EU climate policy had been influenced by lobbying from fossil fuel majors including BP,[13] Shell,[14] Chevron,[15] Exxon and others acting in concert.
Other stories that he broke included the European Food Safety Authority’s use of an EU report that copy and pasted analyses from a Monsanto study[19] to justify a recommendation for relicensing glyphosate.