OCRI Talk in Festival Gabo: Uncovering the Corruption Behind Climate Change

As part of the OCRI initiative the CIJ and Fundacion Gabo are hosting the talk “An Investigative Challenge: Uncovering the Corruption Behind Climate Change”, on Sunday 23 October at 2 pm in Cartagena, Colombia. This will be part of Festival Gabo, one of the most important journalism events in Latin America.

The panelists will be Gloria Pallares (journalist and Fellow 2021-2022 of the Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) at the Pulitzer Center and main trainer of the OCRI workshop on Investigative journalism on climate change that took place in Mexico City this year), Dora Montero (Colombian journalist and vice president of Consejo de Redacción) and Laura Sofía Mejía (Co-founder and director of Baudó Agencia Pública, an agency conducting environmental and peace journalistic projects).

The session will focus on good practices in climate change coverage.

Dora Montero

Dora is the Vice President of Consejo de Redacción, a Colombian journalist and an Investigative journalist with more than 20 years of journalistic experience working in different national media and covering regional issues in Colombia.

Gloria Pallarès

Gloria is an independent journalist focused on the environment and global development, and has published in media such as El País, Mongabay and Devex. Her work in the Congo Basin, supported by the Pulitzer Center, has exposed cases of illegal logging and mining and weaknesses in the governance of carbon projects in a total area equivalent to the size of Costa Rica.

Laura Sofía Mejía

A social communicator and journalist by profession with a master's degree in direction and project management from OBS and the University of Barcelona, Laura is Co-founder and Director of Baudó Public Agency.

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23 October 2022 14.00–15.00 Bogotá, Colombia

Bogotá, Colombia