Chris Packham appointed to board of Climate Emergency Fund

Exclusive: Announcing new role, naturalist and broadcaster says ‘faceless’ CEOs need to be ‘called out’

Climate activists need to stop blocking roads and start holding fossil fuel executives personally to account, Chris Packham has said, after being appointed to the board of one of the biggest activist funds in the world.

The naturalist and broadcaster is the first non-US-based director of the Climate Emergency Fund, which has given almost $15m (£11.4m) to activists taking part in non-violent civil disobedience around the world since 2019.