Summer Conference Events

The green certification industry is supposed to hold companies accountable but what happens if they’re masking deforestation, illegal logging and other environmental crimes? We’ll be talking about how a global investigation tracked hundreds of companies certified as sustainable and revealed environmental destruction.

This class will introduce participants to approaches to tracking and reporting on the opaque oil trade. – The value of commodity tracking and presentation of powerful stories based on it – Introduction to the basics of the oil market – Review of data sources for oil and ship tracking: ○ Refinitiv ○ Kpler ○ Import […]

Disasters triggered by climate change are many years in the making, but when they reach critical points the effects can happen fast. If journalists are to capture and show the impacts of such events on affected communities, they too must act fast.

We are already seeing the impacts of the climate crisis, and many are so wide-ranging and devastating that they are difficult to comprehend. Many journalists are taking the skills and techniques of data journalism and applying these to the disastrous ramifications of climate change.

Recent years have seen significant improvement in both recognition and rhetoric from those in power around the climate crisis and the need for action to address the looming impacts. However, in too many cases, positive words have served only to obscure inaction at best and continued harm at worst.

Luuk Sengers is a seasoned investigative journalist specialising in the impact of large corporations on the environment, public health and the climate. In recent years he has found that the traditional way of business reporting is no longer sufficient: because of the decisive impact of many multinationals on the climate crisis, it has now literally become a matter of life and death.