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. Through his decade-long experience in project management, information technology, accountability in governance, civic engagement and investigative journalism, Adeolu has successfully facilitated media/investigative training and led other social development projects with verifiable results covering a wide range of issues, from education to elections and health to mention a few.
Past courses
Initiative Event
29 January 2026
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.
Summer Conference Event
— Case study Talk
26 June 2025
Digital Investigations: OSINT, Trade Data and AI
Three panellists talk through the innovative methods they used in recent investigations. The new digital methodologies allowed each to chase down important stories from major gaps in flood support funding from the Nigerian government, through sanctions evasion in arms trafficking to Russia, to the exploitation and abuse rife within platforms such as OnlyFans.
Summer Conference Event
— Panel Talk
4 July 2024
Climate Arson and Cover-Ups [R]
Discover a variety of innovative investigative methods put to good use uncovering environmental harms and greenwashing. From mapping fossil fuel projects in conservation sites, to cross-border collaborations digging through hidden harms buried within 'green' hydrogen investments, to using drones to expose the deliberate burning of the UK's largest natural carbon store, you'll hear from a range of the best environmental investigations around the world.
Summer Conference Event
— Talk
29 June 2023
Making It Count: Using Data to Tell Stories from the Climate Crisis
We are already seeing the impacts of the climate crisis, and many are so wide-ranging and devastating that they are difficult to comprehend. Many journalists are taking the skills and techniques of data journalism and applying these to the disastrous ramifications of climate change.
