Isabel Hilton is a London based writer and broadcaster, and founder and senior advisor to the China Dialogue Trust. CDT publishes www.chinadialogue.net, an innovative, fully bilingual Chinese English website devoted to building a shared approach on climate change and environmental issues with China.

Based in London, chinadialogue launched in 2006 and is now recognised as a unique, independent source of information on environmental and climate issues, widely read in China and in more than 200 countries around the world. It now has offices in Beijing, Delhi and Sao Paolo and has generated four further, related projects: www.thethirdpole.net; www.indiaclimatedialogue.net; www.dialogochino.net and www.chinadialogueocean.net