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Summer Conference Events

27 June 2025

COP30: How to better cover the climate negotiations?

In times of growing denialism and misinformation against the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development, it has become essential to cover events like the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP).

27 June 2025

Accessing the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive

This course will take a detailed look at the reporting requirements for large corporations on the impacts of their actions and those within their supply chains. It will guide participants through accessing, understanding and building compelling stories from the sustainability reports that will soon be filed by large corporations with operations in the EU.

4 July 2024

Climate Arson and Cover-Ups [R]

Discover a variety of innovative investigative methods put to good use uncovering environmental harms and greenwashing. From mapping fossil fuel projects in conservation sites, to cross-border collaborations digging through hidden harms buried within 'green' hydrogen investments, to using drones to expose the deliberate burning of the UK's largest natural carbon store, you'll hear from a range of the best environmental investigations around the world.

3 July 2024

GeoJournalism: Detecting Oil and Gas Concessions in Protected Areas. Hands-on. [B]

Overlaps between natural resource exploitation and exploration licenses and protected area can be a great starter for diving into an environmental investigation! But just why and how could you apply this process in a systemic manner when it comes to global extractive giants?

4 July 2024

COP Reporting – How to Prepare and Keep Focused [R]

The UN Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC is one of the biggest news events for international climate change negotiations each year, but it can be difficult to navigate as a journalist without the right preparation.

3 July 2024

Investigating the Climate Crisis – Beyond Reporting the What [R]

In the midst of an unfolding global crisis, climate reporting is an urgent and necessary field, but there is a corresponding need for journalists to go further than reporting on what is happening due to climate change and investigate deeper questions: why it is happening, who is responsible, who is profiting and how the much-vaunted solutions are being undermined to the point of futility.