At their 13th conference, the Global Investigative Journalism Network emphasised the critical role investigative climate crisis reporting plays in addressing the climate catastrophe. They cited the difficulty of obtaining data and access to experts as significant challenges for investigative climate reporting and called for more trainings and knowledge-sharing spaces.
This programme invited journalists to join a community of climate journalists to share resources and build networks, as well as to attend six tailor-made webinars and one info session on climate journalism that build knowledge and skills.
In total 6 webinars were conducted. Each webinar lasted one hour and included at least one expert from the climate space. Topics covered range from fossil finance, land-grabbing and lobbying, to greenwashing and disinformation. The webinars provided investigative journalists with the tools to include evidence-based climate reporting in their work and will also connect them to relevant experts and discourses in the climate space.
Through the ClimateConnect project:
● More than 400 journalists were successfully trained
● More than 20 journalists have joined our community
● 33 journalists participated in the most recent in-person meeting
Photo: David Hans Moritz Schmidt
