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29 June 2023

Sustainable Industry Labels: Are they what they claim to be?

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.

28 June 2023

Oil Trade Tracking. Hands-on.

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 […]

28 June 2023

Flash Floods: How to report when climate disaster strikes

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.

28 June 2023

Making it Count: Using data to tell stories from the climate crisis

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.

28 June 2023

Broken Promises: Positive words – poor results

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.

29 June 2023

No Business as Usual: Multinationals and the climate crisis

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.

30 June 2022

Wood for the Trees: Data-Driven Environmental Journalism

This session, led by an expert in leveraging the techniques of data journalism to produce deforestation and climate change investigations, takes attendees through the practice and pitfalls of covering the environment.

30 June 2022

Environmental Investigations: Going Undercover

Sometimes, the only way to get the story out is to go in undercover. These investigations can be the trickiest that a researcher will ever take on and come with a range of risks and potential pitfalls, but with the climate in crisis and on the brink of full collapse, and many vested interests keeping their deals well hidden, occasionally the means are justified.

30 June 2022

Trase: Investigating Deforestation in Supply Chains

Global trade in soy, beef, palm oil and other agricultural commodities is driving tropical deforestation. Governments, businesses and financial institutions have pledged to halt deforestation, but only with transparency in supply chains can these commitments be meaningfully assessed.

29 June 2022

Data Journalism and the Rise of Green Crime

Data journalists from Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism will highlight several of the unit’s pioneering geo-journalism tools (#WildEye, #MineAlert, Rhino Court Cases and ClimaTracker) to demonstrate how journalists can incorporate environmental data into their work.