The Arena Climate Network is an open-access network by and for journalists, who want to focus on all aspects of the climate crisis and who want to do in-depth, investigative work. Our network serves a community devoted to exposing financial greed, corruption, and government malaise that fuel the climate crisis.
We offer journalists a hub for collaboration, discussion and mutual learning. Our flagship activity is the annual Climate Arena Conference, complemented by a fellowship programme and customised trainings to early- and mid-career journalists. We also initiate, coordinate or support large scale, cross-border, data-intensive investigate journalism projects.
Contact us: climate@journalismarena.eu
How to get involved
Annual Climate Arena conference
Arena’s hands-on, working conference on European climate reporting. Where journalists and climate scientists, share how award-winning investigations were done, get the datasets, understand the methods, and find their next project to collaborate on — across borders and disciplines.
Become part of our Climate Arena fellowship
At the Climate Arena, we have a fellowship opportunity for those who have a cross-border and investigative climate story idea and are eager to work in a team setting.
Connect to climate journalists across Europe:
- Join our Signal group: This is where you can get quick answers to your questions, get peer feedback, and find reporting partners in other countries.
- Sign up to our Climate Arena newsletter to stay up-to-date with Climate Arena activities and receive the latest news about our annual Climate Arena conference and fellowships.
- Follow us on Twitter to stay in touch and learn about our latest activities.
Climate Arena Investigations
We participate in climate investigations in different ways, depending on the project and needs: We coordinate, report, scale up or do data analysis. Here are some examples:
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| In 2024, the Under the Surface project, initiated and coordinated by Arena for Journalism in Europe and Datadista, delved into official data from European countries to reveal, for the first time, the extent of the danger we face. Over five months, altogether, 14 journalists from seven countries analysed the most up-to-date EU figures and created an interactive map of Europe’s aquifers. | In early 2023, the Forever Pollution Project showed that nearly 23,000 sites all over Europe are contaminated by the “forever chemicals” PFAS. This unique collaborative cross-border and cross-field investigation by 16 European newsrooms revealed an additional 21,500 presumptive contamination sites due to current or past industrial activity. PFAS contamination spreads all over Europe. | Published in 2022, the Troubled Waters investigation by Jelena Prtoric (Arena for Journalism in Europe) in colla-boration with Luisa Izuzquiza (FragDenStaat) unveiled the extent to which the EU’s agricultural policies – or rather the lack of their implementation – contribute to the pollution of European waters. The research was part of the 2022 Bertha Challenge fellowship focusing on water. |