Reporting from the frontline of the global climate crisis #2025 is Danida Fellowship Centre´s learning programme focusing on one of the greatest challenges of our time: How misinformation and fake news undermine the climate agenda and delay real solutions. Read more about the programme and read here all the produced story outputs.
Read here a selection of the news pieces they produced:
Eskom's coal fleet must prepare for a new role on the grid
By Nick Hedley, News24
So Who Exactly Protests at COP?
As the COP30 climate meetings wrap up in Belem, one of the most enduring takeaways has been the protests.
By Soumashree Sarkar, The Wire
Colombia declares itself the first nation in the Amazon with its entire forest free from oil and mining activities
Colombia’s minister of environment and sustainable development, Irene Vélez Torres, made the announcement Thursday (Nov. 13) at a meeting of Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) ministers during COP30.
By Fabio Bispo, InfoAmazonia
Komati illustrates the human cost of South Africa´s energy transition
“I’m appealing that please don’t use South Africa as an example on how the just transition is being done. That has nothing to do with just transition. We only came to know about it when we couldn’t put food on our table.”
As a sponsor of COP30, Vale buys carbon credits from an area in the Amazon accused of irregularities in timber management.
A mining company presents the ABC Norte REDD project as its environmental trump card, but Ibama (Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources) found problems with timber extraction within the climate compensation area – which formed the basis of a complaint filed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office against the J & Y Timber Company. The territory in the Amazon region of Pará also registers deforestation, authorization for mineral research, and land conflicts with traditional communities.
By Fabio Bispo, Journalist at Info Amazonia, Brazil
Amplifying community voices in South Africa’s green transition
The green transition towards renewable energy is about more than investments, Governments’ plans, rules and regulations. It is also about how these initiatives take root in communities and how citizens put them into practice. Semeyi Zake brings this aspect to light in a news feature on Business Day TV in South Africa.
By Semeyi Zake, Journalist for Business Day TV, South Africa
‘Finance Is Not Coming’: Developing Countries’ Climate Adaptation Needs Are 12 Times What the Money Allows
Estimated adaptation finance needs of developing countries range from US$310-365 billion per year by 2035. But international public adaptation finance flows from developed to developing countries fell from US$28 billion in 2022 to US$26 billion in 2023, the UNEP’s 2025 Adaptation Gap Report says.
By Soumashree Sarkar, Journalist for The Wire, South Africa
In the high Himalayas, women and communities build a shared future for the snow leopard
In Himachal Pradesh’s Kibber village, a team of local women were a key part of the scientific monitoring effort to estimate the region’s snow leopard population.
Forest officials say collaboration with local communities through Eco-Development Committees, livelihood programmes, and awareness efforts has improved trust and reduced conflict in the Trans-Himalaya.
By Manish Chandra Mishra, Journalist for Mongabay, India
