Welcome to this latest edition of From a Climate Correspondent. If you'd like to support us, check out our Patreon page, or invite us for a coffee over at KOFI page. Thanks for reading!
A red-eyed tree frog clings to a tree trunk near the Tenorio Volcano National Park in Costa Rica. Photo credit: Jocelyn Timperley
From A Climate Correspondent started as a simple idea - an on the ground look at climate change challenges from some of the places we don’t always hear that much about.
It was started by four climate journalists all from Europe but based outside our home continent, namely in India, Costa Rica, Kenya and Hong Kong. We wanted to report back first hand on what was happening in these countries and the surrounding regions.
We began sending weekly updates, rotating around between the four of us, and then finding what solutions we could to continue reporting when the global pandemic hit soon after our launch. But, with time, our original idea began to evolve and we started to realise how much insight could be brought to our climate updates by widening our reach to include other writers in other countries.
Our aspiration is now to commission a wider variety of climate journalists embedded in communities all over the world to give first hand accounts of stories near to their heart. The question we always want to answer is: what’s it really *like* to be there - and what’s being missed by those who aren’t there themselves.
Your support
So far we’ve been able to commission only a few external writers, but our goal is to engage more reporters as we grow.
Recently we were fortunate enough to be awarded a climate grant from the European Federation for Science Journalism (ECSJ), which will go a long way towards helping us expand our writer pool, and spend more time ourselves on the newsletter. So look out for new writers, from new countries, telling their own unique stories in the coming weeks and months!
However, to keep this project going in the longer term, we are still in need of funds, and particularly a more regular source of income. If you’d like to support us, you can sign up to give a regular donation Patreon page, or invite us for a coffee over at our KOFI page.
Another big way you can help us is simply by sharing the newsletter, whether by forwarding it via email to people you think will like it, or posting on social media (all our articles are also posted to our Substack website).
Thank you all so much for reading. Your kind words of support (and donations) give us confidence to carry on bringing you stories from the under-reported frontlines of the climate crisis. Here’s to the next step!
Our guest writers
To give you a taste of what’s coming, here’s some of our favourite guest articles from the past few months.
How lockdown in Nigeria relies on fossil fuel generators
By Justice Nwafor in Ibadan, Nigeria. June 2020
https://climatecorrespondent.substack.com/p/23-how-lockdown-in-nigeria-relies
“It’s 2pm and there is no end in sight to the loud noise from electricity generating sets at adjoining apartments.”
Will China's economic recovery be green?
By Tom Baxter in Beijing, China. April 2020
https://climatecorrespondent.substack.com/p/7152964_from-a-climate-correspondent-weekly-18-china
Months before China’s infamous carbon neutral pledge, Tom Baxter looked at the chances of a green recovery from the world’s largest emitter.
Suing the government to save Ghana’s forest
By Stacey Knott in Akyem Abuakwa , Ghana. August 2020
https://climatecorrespondent.substack.com/p/35-suing-the-government-to-save-ghanas
The Atewa has at least 1100 plant species and endemic and threatened butterflies, amphibians, birds and monkeys. But it also holds an estimated 150 million tonnes of bauxite.
Russia’s environmental journalism at a crossroads
By Crystal Chow in Hong Kong. July 2020
https://climatecorrespondent.substack.com/p/30-russias-environmental-journalism
What’s it like to be an environmental journalist in Russia? Guest author Crystal Chow spoke to journalist Angelina Davydova to find out.
Who we are
From A Climate Correspondent is a weekly newsletter run by four journalists exploring the climate crisis from around the globe.
Lou Del Bello is an energy and climate journalist based in Delhi, India.
Jocelyn Timperley is a climate journalist based in San José, Costa Rica.
India Bourke is an environment journalist based in London, UK.
Mat Hope is investigative journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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