is a Cambridge-educated environmental journalist of longstanding with the London-based newspaper, The Guardian,[1][2] a position she came to after a decade's work for the Financial Times.

Harvey has been the recipient of various professional awards, including twice winning The Foreign Press Association London award for Environment Story of the Year, being named Journalist of the Year at the British Environment and Media Awards, and being named to BBC Woman's Hour Power List 2020, a list of British women leading with regard to the environment.

Harvey graduated with a degree in English literature from Christ's College, Cambridge in 1993.

][4][5] After that, Harvey began work focused on environmental journalism with the London-based newspaper, The Guardian;[1][2] in that capacity, she has attended almost every United Nations Climate Change conference since 2004, and interviewed many notable people,[6] including Mikhail Gorbachev,[7] Tony Blair,[8] and Antonio Guterres.

and Journalist of the Year at the British Environment and Media Awards.[when?