10 Journalists Selected For Climate Investigations Training Scholarship
The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) is happy to announce the selection of 10 journalists for the 2026 Climate Investigation Scholarship (CITS). The deserving recipients were selected from 485 applications received from 70 countries during the open call for applications from 12 January to 11 February 2026. The volume and quality of applications made the selection process highly competitive and made the final selection a tough one.
The CITS recipients will fully participate in the 24.5-hour hands-on Climate Investigations Course (CIC), which will run online on specific days between March and May. Specifically, they will gain access to the tools needed to conduct deep investigative research into climate change; learn from experts about how to investigate and expose wrongdoing; build techniques to research and quantify accurate pictures of the situation and the impact of other efforts; and develop their skills in crafting meaningful climate change/environmental stories to garner support for changes in policy, regulation, or economic actors’ decisions. equip journalists with the skills, tools, and techniques needed to conduct deep investigative research into climate change.
About CITS
In January 2025, we launched the Climate Investigations Course (CIC). This programme built on the work of our Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) under which we taught practical investigative skills to over 700 journalists across 58 countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Check out our global footprints and impact. Following the launch, the CIC completed three successful runs, helping 210 participants from EVERYWHERE – Africa, Australia, Europe, Asia and the Americas to gain relevant skills needed to investigate the climate crisis, making it one of our most sought-after training programmes.
Due to the urgency of the global crisis, and to ensure the continued inclusion of journalists from the Global South countries where OCRI has worked, we commenced CITS in 2025. The inaugural Scholars nominated by OCRI partner organisations, benefited by either participating in online CIC programmes or attending the CIJ Summer Conference (including the Climate Investigations Masterclass) in June. Consequently, the 13 journalists from 10 countries – six recipients from Côte d’Ivoire, Peru, Nigeria, The Gambia and India were in London for the conference while the remaining seven joined the full CIC online. This year, we opened up access to applicants from the specific regions.
