OCRI is dedicated to raising the standard of investigative journalism on the climate crisis across the world. Since 2021 we've provided free access to practical training in a wide range of techniques, helping over 700 journalists from 58 countries to hold powerful actors to account.
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While there is a wealth of excellent environmental journalism on the climate crisis, too often it doesn't dig as deep as needed, explaining not just what is happening and how, but also why. Why, despite decades of warnings and research into mitigation and solutions, is the situation worsening? Where are promises and commitments being broken? What is hindering the process of building new systems to avert the worst of the coming crisis? And who, ultimately, is profiting from this situation?
This is rarely due to a lack of effort, but many journalists lack the support, tools and skills needed to get behind the jargon, PR and corporate spin. Such barriers are highest where the impacts of the climate crisis are worst; across the Global South. Through our focused training, we provide expertise in open-source intelligence tools, techniques for investigating climate finance, data analysis and other skills. With funding we can offer scholarships to journalists best placed to use them.
