A selection of what has been uncovered in the realm of climate disinformation:

A selection of climate disinformation policies and platform enforcements:

AI, climate change and disinformation – the good and the bad in this series of publications:

Archive of recommended readings:

Get to know who is who in the climate disinformation community:

ACT Climate Labs. A group of advertising and climate experts with a track record of creating innovative and impactful creative campaigns around social issues and climate change. Their mission is to supercharge the effectiveness of climate communications with advertising techniques that make climate action mainstream and get others to follow their lead. This starts with climate communicators breaking out of their own bubble and engaging a key target audience: the Persuadables.

Climatefeedback. A worldwide network of scientists sorting fact from fiction in climate change media coverage. Their goal is to help readers know which news to trust.

Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD) is a coalition of 50 climate groups, all tracking various threads of climate disinfo. They provide a journalist guide, a great backgrounder on climate disinformation, a newsletter, and lots of other resources on their website.

Climate Facts Europe. A database created in collaboration with 24-member organisations of the European Fact-Checking Standards Network. Its purpose is to increase cross-country collaboration while promoting access to verified climate information.

Climate GPT. This chatbot, that provides data and information in 20 languages, has passed several tests and controls ensuring that it does not spread climate misinformation.

This center was established in 2014 to monitor the individuals, corporations, trade associations, political organisations and front groups who work to delay the implementation of sound energy and environmental policies that are necessary in the face of ongoing climate crisis.

Climate Social Science Network (CSSN) a site for peer-reviewed research on climate disinformation.

Covering Climate Now hosts a wealth of information on its website, including several posts and guides tackling disinformation.

Crisis Navigator for Rapid Mobilisation of Science Communication is designed as a strategic resource to support the rapid mobilisation of science communication in times of crisis. This first version specifically addresses science communicators, based on the guiding question: How can science communicators contribute when a crisis emerges?

The guidelines for non-science journalists help address complex issues in communicating science and technology, particularly during crises such as climate change, soil and water-related emergencies, pandemics, and the societal impact of AI.

DeSmog. Journalistic and activist website that focuses on topics related to climate change. Its Climate Disinformation Database contains and extensive research on the individuals and organizations that have helped to delay and distract the public and our elected leaders from taking needed action to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and fight global warming.

This global multimedia reporting project focused on climate accountability by investigating and understanding the various drivers of delay on climate action.

In this thematic section, EDMO will engage in addressing climate change-related disinformation by providing tools and resources to raise awareness on the importance of checking facts related to climate change and environmental sustainability, spot disinformation and spread information on the climate emergency in a responsible way.

European Science-Media Hub (European Parliament) brings scientists, journalists and policymakers together.

FactCRICIS is an initiative to improve the capacities of European fact-checking organisations to tackle crisis situations. It supports fact-checkers to identify and debunk disinformation campaigns related to climate change and other crises, fostering more rapid, impactful and coordinated responses within and across European borders

Friends of Earth (FoE) campaign on today’s most urgent environmental and social issues. We challenge the current model of economic and corporate globalisation and promote solutions that will help to create environmentally sustainable and socially just societies. One of FoE programs is exclusively focused on Climate disinformation.

Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) is an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to safeguarding human rights and reversing the rising tide of polarisation, extremism and disinformation worldwide. Among their working areas, ISD identifies, monitors and analyses online information operations targeting the climate policy agenda.

In this section of Maldita.es (a Spanish media outlet established as a non-profit foundation dedicated to fact checking) you will find clues on who to fight climate misinformation while resolving doubts about the environment, explain what its relationship is with health, energy or the consumption model and what actions are more or less useful to confront this global problem.

Climate change is a hot topic – with myths and falsehoods circulating widely. Find some essential facts in Myth Busters, launched by UN. Share them, use them and talk about them to help counter mis- and disinformation and build support for urgent action.

This website provides information and resources such an encyclopedic list of evidence-based refutations of climate misinformation. 

Stop funding heat: This is a campaign mainly powered by volunteers, created by not-for-profit Reliable Media. They are campaigning to make climate denial and misinformation unprofitable

The Center for Climate Integrity (CCI)‘s mission is to empower communities and elected officials with the knowledge and tools they need to hold oil and gas corporations accountable for decades of lying about climate change. Through strategic campaigns, communications, and legal support, CCI ensures that the fossil fuel industry pays its fair share of the massive costs of climate damages.

The Conscious Advertising Network (CAN), is an international not-for-profit member organisation Focused on breaking the economic link between advertising and harmful content. Its manifesto ‘Sustainability’ claims that the content advertisers create, and the processes by which they are created, should be sustainable and responsibly considered, avoiding creating or funding climate crisis misinformation.

Verified for Climate is a joint initiative of the United Nations and Purpose to stand up to climate disinformation and put an end to the narratives of denialism, doomism, and delay.

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