Help Us Train More Climate Journalists with the CIJ Big Give Earth Raise Campaign
One week only: Wed 22 April – Wed 29 April 2026
All your donations are doubled!
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This week we are launching a fundraising campaign on “Big Give” aiming to fund scholarships to get our OCRI-fuelled climate training out to more journalists from Latin America, Africa or South Asia.
This is our first ever public fundraising campaign and, excitingly, the funding we get will be matched by Big Give. So every £1 you give will become £2!
The money raised will train five journalists in Climate Investigation tools and techniques.
Why does it matter?
While there is a wealth of excellent environmental journalism on the climate crisis, too often it doesn’t dig as deep as needed, explaining not just what is happening and how – but also why.
This is rarely due to a lack of effort. Many journalists lack the support, tools and skills needed to get behind the jargon, PR and corporate spin.
Our Climate Investigations Course addresses all of these challenges and gets the skills to where they are needed most.
The CIJ Climate Investigations Scholarship will enable five journalists from Latin America, Africa or South Asia to take the course.
But what about the “real” difference – on the ground?
Because this course is based on over three years of climate investigations training all over the world, we know how impactful it is. The stories published by the journalists trained by the CIJ have achieved tangible benefits for communities most affected by climate change.
Here are just a few examples of what our graduates achieved:
- Sechaba Mokhethi’s story uncovered $15B of renewable energy funding which went missing in Lesotho.
- Michele Ebongue’s and Mathias Mounde Ngamo’s story resulted in protections for Cameroonian mangrove forests being reinforced.
- Hundreds of Nepalese schoolchildren’s lives were protected from climate-induced landslides after Basant Pratap Singh‘s story resulted in the local government’s action: schools moved from the dangerous areas or the school areas reinforced against landslides.
What do the trainees say?
We have already offered 10 scholarships in 2026, training journalists from Lebanon, Nepal, Brazil, South Africa, Paraguay, Sierra Leone, Kenya and two from India. The quality of applicants was so high that we could have selected three times as many! So the funds raised from this campaign will enable us to offer 5 more scholarships this year.
Here is the feedback so far:
“I joined the course to better understand climate issues in Sierra Leone and across Africa, and it is already changing the way I approach climate journalism.”
Patricia Sia Ngevao, Sierra Leone, 2026 Scholar
“The course is halfway through, but my understanding of climate investigative journalism has already started improving significantly. I am currently working on multiple stories related to carbon credits and climate change, and I realised only after joining this course how many important aspects I had initially missed. I feel fortunate to have been selected for this course at this stage of my career […] it has helped me far more than I initially expected.”
Yash Sadhak Srivastava, India, 2026 Scholar
Please give generously and support investigative climate journalism!
If you can’t donate this time, please share and spread the word!
Every £1 (or £20) counts (and will be doubled!!)
Wed 22 April to Wed 29 April 2026 only.