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decoding

climate

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Climatera is an independent and collaborative digital news platform, transforming the ecosystem of climate-change reportage in India and the understanding of this urgent but slow-moving catastrophe among those who are most vulnerable to its ravages

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The world has entered a new age that is increasingly governed by the whims of a rapidly changing climate. India stands at the frontline of this global cataclysm, which has already started to threaten and endanger lives and livelihoods across the country. At the same time it is creating opportunities for individuals and communities to play a larger role in building a more sustainable future.
Yet the stories of the struggles and triumphs of the ordinary Indian against this powerful force remain untold and unknown.
Climate change is now an all-encompassing force that will soon drive every aspect of our lives -- health, jobs, food supply, housing, economy, politics and social harmony. It is the biggest news story of our times.

Our Mission

1

Address the Information Gap

There is a wide chasm between the realities of a rapidly warming world and how it is perceived by most Indians. Extreme weather events, such as devastating floods, crippling droughts and calamitous cyclones, are still understood as “God’s fury” by farmers, migrant labourers and the urban poor. This knowledge gap renders people helpless and unable to demand recourse from the ones responsible for finding a solution.
Mainstream media’s coverage is still largely restricted to event-driven reporting, while highly academic and inaccessible reports from niche publications only serve scientists and an already informed reader.
2

Foster Scientific Knowledge

Our small, highly trained team of reporters and editors will be producing the most crucial climate-change stories of the country, with a focus on connecting the dots between people’s everyday experiences and the rising temperatures. The aim is to make climate science accessible and useful for those who need it the most.
3

Build a Reporting Ecosystem

We will work with our partners to create and distribute these stories, in order to develop a climate-change reporting ecosystem in India. As news organizations’ own understanding of climate science, the global and historical inequities created by the problem and its possible solutions get more sophisticated, readers across publications will benefit from a more nuanced and balanced coverage.
1

Address the Information Gap

There is a wide chasm between the realities of a rapidly warming world and how it is perceived by most Indians. Extreme weather events, such as devastating floods, crippling droughts and calamitous cyclones, are still understood as “God’s fury” by farmers, migrant labourers and the urban poor. This knowledge gap renders people helpless and unable to demand recourse from the ones responsible for finding a solution.
3

Build a Reporting Ecosystem

We will work with our partners to create and distribute these stories, in order to develop a climate-change reporting ecosystem in India. As news organizations’ own understanding of climate science, the global and historical inequities created by the problem and its possible solutions get more sophisticated, readers across publications will benefit from a more nuanced and balanced coverage.
2

Foster Scientific Knowledge

Our small, highly trained team of reporters and editors will be producing the most crucial climate-change stories of the country, with a focus on connecting the dots between people’s everyday experiences and the rising temperatures. The aim is to make climate science accessible and useful for those who need it the most.
Mainstream media’s coverage is still largely restricted to event-driven reporting, while highly academic and inaccessible reports from niche publications only serve scientists and an already informed reader.

Meet our team

Climatera is an initiative by a team of award winning journalists.
Ankur Paliwal
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Ankur Paliwal

Ankur brings his twelve years of journalism experience writing about science, environment, inequity and the queer community. He has reported from India, Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Germany and the United States for several national and international media outlets including Scientific American, Nature, Undark, and FiftyTwo. He has won awards from Kavli Science Journalism Prize, South Asian Journalists Association, and World Health Assembly for his stories. Ankur’s longform narrative journalism projects have been supported by many international foundations including the Pulitzer Centre, GroundTruth Project, Medicines Sans Frontiers and National Press Foundation.

Ankur is the founder and managing editor of queerbeat, a collaborative journalism project focused on deeply and accurately covering LGBTQIA+ community in India.

Ankur has a master’s degree in science and environment reporting from the journalism school of Columbia University in New York.
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Bhasker Tripathi
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Bhasker Tripathi

Bhasker has been reporting about climate change, environment, agriculture and energy for over ten years. Currently, he is Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Climate Correspondent in India and he is not active in his role at Climatera. He spent the early part of his career understanding India’s emerging digital news landscape and played a key role in building India’s first rural news platform, Gaon Connection. His work has been published by several news organisations including Mongabay, Business Standard, Bloomberg Quint, IndiaSpend and Scroll. Bhasker is a Pulitzer Centre grantee. He has been named one of the best young journalists from developing countries by Thompson Foundation & UK's Foreign Press Association. He was awarded the 'Young Environment Journalist' of the year by CMS Vatavaran in association with the Indian and Swiss governments.
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