New Year Honours 2026
Piers Forster CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
• Climate Change Committee and Professor of Physical Climate Change
“For services to Tackling Climate Change.”
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Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
30 December 2025
THE KING has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
C.B.E.
To be Ordinary Commanders of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Professor Piers Maxwell de Ferranti FORSTER
Interim Chair, Climate Change Committee and Professor of Physical Climate Change, University of Leeds
For services to Tackling Climate Change.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 64940 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire
New Year Honours 2026- Role at the time
- Climate Change Committee and Professor of Physical Climate Change
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- Harrogate, North Yorkshire
“For services to Tackling Climate Change.”
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How common is this award?
The Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 103 times in the New Year Honours List 2026 — about 7% of the list.
In their area
25 Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from North Yorkshire.
What organisation were they with?
Climate Change Committee and Professor of Physical Climate Change.
How widely is this recognised?
1,438 people have been recognised for Environment & Agriculture.
Counts reflect the 2000–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
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Where this record comes from
Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2026
London Gazette (official record), issue 64940, notice 5027586. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2026).
Published 29 December 2025.
Location (Harrogate, North Yorkshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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