OCRI Tools and Resources
OCRI’s extensive work reaching beneficiaries in nearly 60 countries across three continents has led to the production of relevant tools and resources useful for journalists, researchers, academics, activists/environmentalists, civil society actors and other stakeholders in interrogating climate change.
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We have compiled below useful resources across various climate change sub-themes such as climate justice, deforestation, the United Nations (UN) Conference of Parties (COP), renewable energy, greenwashing and flooding.
Publications, tips, techniques, datasets & other resources
- Warming Peaks, Heat Islands, Vanishing Shores by Subhra Priyadarshini & DataLEADS
- Useful resources for a COP coverage by Tais Gadea Lara
- Harvesting disparity: Climate Change, Food and Water, Security, and Migrants of the UAE
- Need assessment report for improving climate change and environmental reporting within conflict situations by NasActive Network
- Data-driven local coverage of climate justice handbook (in Portuguese) by Open Knowledge Brasil (OKBR)
- Network of environment and climate change experts in the Arab region by ClimateInArabic
- What #PowerTracker journalists found in Mozambique by Oxpeckers Center for Investigative Environmental Journalism (Oxpeckers)
- The human face of the renewables revolution (Mozambique learning narrative) in English and Portuguese by Oxpeckers
- Liberated data on solar energy projects in Mozambique by Oxpeckers
- 6 recommendations to develop the hypothesis of your journalistic investigation by Fundación Gabo
- 8 keys to starting a journalistic investigation on climate change by Fundación Gabo
- Steps and key questions to researching climate change by Fundación Gabo
- 9 digital tools to investigate climate change by Fundación Gabo
- Liberated data on Renewable energy projects in Southern Africa by Oxpeckers
- Investigating renewable energy in Southern Africa by Oxpeckers
- COP Reporting Handbook by the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID)
- Survey Report – Challenges Anglophone West Africa Journalists Face in Covering Climate Change by CJID
Videos
- How to develop collaborative stories about climate change and its impacts in Latin America (in Spanish) by Fundación Connectas
- COP30: How to Better Cover the Climate Negotiations? by Centre for Investigative Journalism, London (CIJ)
- Chasing Deforestation in Cambodia by CIJ
- Climate Arson and Cover-Ups by CIJ
- COP Reporting – How to Prepare and Keep Focused by CIJ
- Investigating the Climate Crisis – Beyond Reporting the What by CIJ
- Addressing Climate Misinformation – Now & Beyond by DataLEADS
- Flash Floods – How to Report when Climate Disaster Strikes by CIJ
- Broken Promises: Greenwashing Uncovered by CIJ
- Making It Count – Using Data to Tell Stories from the Climate Crisis by CIJ
- Flooding and Environmental disaster in Nigeria presentation at CJID’s Climate Change Media Summit
- Virtual course on Investigating and Narrating Climate Change (in Spanish) by Fundación Connectas
- Climate Change Documentary: Nigeria Flooding case study by CJID
- Lessons and what to train journalists on Climate Change reporting in Francophone Africa (in French) by CIJ
- Digital Tools for Researching Climate Change (in Spanish) by Fundación Gabo
- How to Approach Climate Change Research (in Spanish) by Fundación Gabo
- Wood for the Trees: Data-Driven Environmental Journalism by CIJ