From Skills to Shifts: How Climate Investigations Get Results

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

You can download slides from each of the speakers below:

Maximiliano Manzoni – Climate Journalism – Lessons from Latam

Syed Nazakat – Addressing Climate Misinformation – Now and Beyond

Adeolu Adekola – OCRI Impact Summary

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

Nina Lakhani, Global Climate Justice Reporter, Drilled Media

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 impacts and successes that have included making communities more climate-resilient, and reducing the vulnerabilities of local populations to climate change.

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.

Nina Lakhani

Nina Lakhani has reported from more than a dozen countries including six years investigating health scandals, deaths in custody and honor based violence for The Independent newspapers in London and seven years freelancing in Mexico and Central America covering state sponsored repression, consequences of the war on drugs, gender based violence and the battle for natural resources.

29 January 2026 15.00–16.30 GMT (UK time)

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