Climate Arena 2024

During the climate crisis, we need journalism that brings us forward. But whether writing stories about individuals or investigations about companies, climate journalism should remain critical and find the right balance between motivating the audiences and criticising the culprits.

Living in a tiny house means less material baggage but also less space. Taking the night train means more adventure, but also a slower trip. Carbon offsets projects can help to balance emissions from hard-to-decarbonise industries, but what if they cause unexpected consequences? Regardless of whether we are reporting on private involvement or on companies - we gain nothing if we paint the situation too positively.

In this roundtable, we share experiences and perspectives on the risks of constructive reporting to be turned into “feel-good stories”, greenwashing or advertising, and how to critically engage sources when researching climate solutions.

Come to this session with your own experiences and “solutions” dilemmas, and let’s discuss them together.

During this session, participants will learn about the basics of scrollytelling: structure, usage, best cases. Scrollytelling articles are popular, gets more readers, shared more, and win awards. The most popular of these types of stories feature dynamic maps, helping to tell a story with geographical data. This session aims to make this process easy to learn.  

By the end of the session, all participants will have an understanding of the structure of Mapbox-based scrollytelling wireframe, with basic animations and interactivity.

NOTE: Participants should have a basic understanding of HTML structure; know what a geojson file is, and love maps. You will need a Mapbox profile (free registration); code editor of choice (eg Sublime Text), and possibly QGIS.

In response to the growing need for reliable climate information, this informal roundtable will bring together fact-checking communities from across Europe to connect and build trust. Representatives from five fact-checking organisations will share their insights, experiences, and challenges in not only combating climate misinformation in their day to day work but also finding their rightful place within the larger media ecosystem in Europe.

We want this roundtable to also be an opportunity to assess the needs of European climate fact-checkers and explore ways to enhance collaborations across borders.

This roundtable is open to all who'd like to learn more about the state of the art for climate fact-checking and share all lessons learned, good and bad, as well as best practices. We will keep the session informal and relaxed, and encourage unfiltered exchange of ideas.