From Skills to Shifts: How Climate Investigations Get Results

Jan 29, 2026 3pm-4:30pm (UK Time)

Over the last four years, we’ve learned a lot about how journalism can get results in pushing for climate progress and addressing injustice.

Through the Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) we’ve empowered hundreds of frontline reporters in 58 countries with cutting edge skills for investigative research and create engaging content. Join us to hear more from those across the network about how enhancing the capacity of journalists and civil society to dig deeper and share meaningful insights from their work has led to positive impacts on an issue as huge and complex as the climate crisis.

From partners, trainers and journalists involved, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of what it takes to translate skills into wider shifts in resilience, accountability, and action.

Speakers

Adeolu Adekola, OCRI Project Manager, CIJ

Amy Westervelt, Climate Journalist, Podcaster and Author

Maximiliano Manzoni, Climate Journalist, Uruguay

Syed Nazakat, Founder and CEO, DataLEADS, India

Adeolu Adekola

Adeolu Adekola joined the CIJ to manage its Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI). The initiative has reached beneficiaries in 58 countries and counting (across Africa, Asia and the Americas), with reported successes that have included making communities more climate-resilient, and reducing the vulnerabilities of local populations to climate change.

Amy Westervelt

Amy Westervelt is an award-winning investigative climate journalist. She is the founder of the podcast network Critical Frequency and of the multimedia climate reporting project Drilled, which includes a popular podcast by the same name as well as multiple cross-border investigations in collaboration with a wide range of print media partners.

Maximiliano Manzoni

Maximiliano is an Uruguayan journalist based in Paraguay specialising in climate change and a member of #CONNECTASHub. He is a Gabo Prize winner and an alumnus of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network.

Syed Nazakat

Syed Nazakat is an award-winning Indian journalist, media entrepreneur, founder of DataLEADS. He leads DataLEADS in New Delhi, as well as oversees its outreach across Asia with different partners, including with Google News Initiative.

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29 January 2026 15.00–16.30