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Climate Action Against Disinformation

A global coalition of 90+ climate and anti-disinformation organisations.

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António Guterres: info integrity is vital at COP30:

“We cannot achieve climate action without information integrity. We must preserve both the information environment necessary for democratic decision-making and the global cooperation essential for addressing the climate crisis."

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November 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🔎 "Deny, Deceive, Delay: Demystified" explores the Brazilian disinfo environment leading up to #COP30, the history of climate obstruction, and why despite the 89% global demand for climate action, UN negotiations have failed to deliver.

Read the report in full ⬇️

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November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Talking climate disinformation at #COP30!
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November 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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🤝 Today on COP30’s first ever official Information Integrity Day, over 195 individuals and 189 organisations have joined us to urge governments to codify information integrity, counter climate disinformation, and put public health and human rights first.

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November 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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🔎 Australia's climate denial groups attempted to block a Senate inquiry into misinformation, but instead revealed exactly why an investigation was needed.

Learn more via @drilledmedia.bsky.social

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November 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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A group of 15 civil society organizations sent a joint letter calling on Ottawa to join the Global Initiative on Information Integrity on Climate Change. This UN and UNESCO-backed effort is putting information integrity in the global spotlight for the first time.

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October 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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🚨 New from @info-activism.bsky.social : “The RePlaybook: A Field Guide to the Climate and Information Crisis”. This is a first-of-its-kind toolkit to decode disinfo, challenge tech & counter division in climate comms.

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September 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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🚗 According to new analysis from @eciu.net, a quarter of UK newspaper articles about electric vehicles contain misleading claims, with over a third of the articles sampled framing EVs in a negative light.

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September 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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With quotes from CAAD!
Phil Newell, co-chair of the communications working group with Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD), said the Joemar Sombero page highlights how AI can help content creators maximize the monetization structure built into social media platforms. "It's an example of how Big Tech has just made it so much easier to use lies to convince somebody to click on your thing, and that gets you some ad money," he said. Even if AI images are low quality, they make it cheap and easier for content creators and, in some cases, bad actors, to create huge amounts of emotionally evocative pictures that generate attention and clicks. Misinformation around natural disasters for financial gain — including climate misinformation — has been a big business for decades, with oil and gas companies spending billions over decades to mislead people about the harm caused by their products. AI has just reduced the cost of making this kind of misinformation to "near zero" and made it easier to spread, said Michael Khoo, co-founder of Upshift Strategies and policy and development for CAAD. "It's just so much more spam on a colossal new level," he said.
August 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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2/2 Our new briefing investigates how far-right figures & social platforms fuelled cloud seeding conspiracy theories after the devastating floods. Until Big Tech enforces info integrity, platforms will keep fuelling disinfo & degrading digital discourse.

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August 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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🚨The latest edition of CAAD's Data Monitor is out now!

This edition explores how right-wing podcasts are spreading fossil-fuel funded disinfo about renewables.

Read the full edition here ⬇️

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August 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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New from Heated: He helped Microsoft build AI to help the climate. Then Microsoft sold it to Big Oil.

A former Microsoft project manager reveals how the tech giant is using AI to help Big Oil drill—and how he and his partner are now pushing for change.
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July 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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🚨 The new EuroBarometer on Climate Change has been released and reveals how Europeans feel about climate change and what they expect from policymakers.

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July 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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🤝 Macron and Lula are joining forces to take a stand against climate disinformation, sending a strong signal for global action and upholding information integrity in the fight against climate change.

Read more from @quotaclimat.org‬ @cssn.org‬ & ‪@caadcoalition.bsky.social‬ ⬇️

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June 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🚨 The newest edition of CAAD's data monitor is out now! This issue explores how speculation about the Iberian power outages fuelled conspiracies & disinfo targeting renewables/net zero.

See how these spread, connect to extreme weather, & what drives disinfo incentives in crises ⬇️

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May 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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💡 Join @gchalliance.bsky.social‬ for the launch of “Break the Fossil Influence” - a health-led campaign calling for fossil-free communications.

Hear from health leaders & experts on disinformation on 22 May, 8:00AM CEST

Register here: buff.ly/LGf2Ihw
May 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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📅 Join @gchalliance.bsky.social for the launch of "Break the Fossil Influence", a health-led campaign urging orgs to cut ties with fossil fuel-linked PR & ad agencies.

Hear from health leaders & disinfo experts on May 22 8am at Geneva Press Club

RSVP: shweta.narayan@climateandhealthalliance.org
May 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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🔍 "Disinformation COPs" planned in the Amazon to weaken #COP30?

The new Oii Newsletter by FALA reveals how climate deniers operate in Brazil with techniques that delay action.

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May 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Huge thanks and applause for CAAD's awesome partners and co-conveners FALA and the Conscious Ad Network!
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March 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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So many incredible speakers!
Paulo Sergio Domingues, Justice, Superior Court of Justice of Brazil: I don’t like the term “fake news.” Because it contains the word news, it ends up legitimizing something that isn’t news at all. I prefer to call it what it really is: a lie. I’ve been a judge for many years, and every day I see people presenting different versions of the same facts—not out of malice, but because they have different perceptions of the world. But here, it’s a different story. Here, we’re dealing with deliberate disinformation. We’re talking about lies and distortions designed to generate profit and political advantage. Those who profit from falsehoods are the ones most interested in spreading them. Today, every person is a newspaper and their own editor. Paid influencers, coordinated to maximize engagement, act as a highly effective form of advertising—and they’re a serious concern. Eliesio Marubo, activist and legal counsel for Union of Indigenous Peoples of the Javari Valley: I come from a region where organized crime prevails, where the authorities are negligent – the political world is deeply connected with organized crime. This led to a deliberate denial in 2022 of the importance of the Amazon and environmental issues, which we had been discussing globally. The result of this is that, in a very dramatic way, of the 5 people who were threatened, 3 were murdered. Only 2 are alive to tell the story. And unfortunately, I am one of those people, who dramatically continues to defend my territory, defend the environment, working as an Indigenous activist and also for environmental causes, making sure that people and the world understand the importance of telling the true story. Thais Lazzeri, founder of FALA: Brazil will soon host two major events designed to weaken COP30 and the climate movement — one connected to sectors of agribusiness and the other to the far right, with international support. Both will take place in the Amazon. This same Amazon where over 88% of elected mayors didn’t mention environmental issues in their campaigns. Where exploitative agendas continue to advance. Where 90% of deforestation between 1985 and 2024 happened to create pastureland. Where over half of Brazil’s Indigenous population lives — one of the most targeted groups on digital platforms. Many here don’t know what it means to wake up to a grave and a cross dug beside your home — a chilling reminder of the cost of being a defender, in one of the countries that kills the most environmental defenders. That’s why talking about climate information integrity right before COP is so urgent. We’ve been watching how digital platforms are dismantling their content moderation and fact-checking policies — let’s call it what it is — human rights policies. And that’s making social media — and real life — more hostile for many of us, and for those we love. We can’t just watch all of this unfold from our phone screens. And that’s why we’re here: To stay mobilized and vigilant, because rights must always be defended. To push for transparency and regulation, in a battle of unequal power and resources. To build bridges and collective solutions, with global ambition — even the ones that don’t exist yet. To imagine new futures. And to dream together. When my daughter was born, I asked the world to be kind to her. And today, I’m asking you. Imran Ahmed, CEO, Center for Countering Digital Hate: Social media today isn’t a free exchange of ideas, it’s a polluted space where outrage and clicks outweigh the truth. Real freedom demands informed citizens. When powerful voices drown out the truth, that’s not freedom, it’s digital feudalism, where a few power …
March 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Did you miss the Climate Information Integrity Summit?

Here, catch up quick with toplines and quotes!

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Key Commitments: Brazil, the host of COP30, announced their commitment to prioritize information integrity at the upcoming climate summit (COP30) and to expand their efforts in leading the Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change. The Brazilian chapter of the initiative is also launching today (26 March 2025). The European Union (EU) warmly welcomed the groundbreaking Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change and announced they are working through the processes for official commitment and financial contributions. The United Kingdom (UK) reiterated their commitment as a founding member of the Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change. Selected Quotes from the Summit: Nina Santos, Head of the Special Advisory Office at the Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil and Deputy Secretary at the Secretariat for Digital Policies: The Brazilian government has been working tirelessly in the defense of the agenda of information integrity. We are launching tomorrow, the Brazilian chapter of the global initiative of climate change information integrity. We want to have in Brazil a network of researchers, organizations and centers mobilized around this subject. Elisa Morgera Special Rapporteur on Climate Change, United Nations on Human Rights: I decided to focus one of my thematic reports to the UN General Assembly on public access to information on climate change in human rights, because that is really the precondition for the exercise and protection of every other human right which is affected by climate change. And in fact without that information we are not able, none of us is able, to protect life and health on the basis of a full evidence-base of what is now foreseeable and predictable harm for individuals for communities for children. Maria Buzdogan, Counsellor, Economy, Industry and Digital Transformation at the Delegation of the European Union to Brazil: We Salute Brazil’s leadership in this in this realm and we think the global initiative is both welcome and timely because it brings critical attention to the growing impact of climate disinformation which is reflected already in undermining public trust and polarizing other debate on the topic which in turn can and it has led to stalling urgently needed climate action. The EU has been approached like other countries by Brazilian authorities to join this global initiative and we are clearly very much aligned with the objectives of this initiative to address disinformation on climate change and enhance climate change awareness and action. My colleagues in Brussels are exploring the feasi…
March 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Land defender and legal counsel to Univaja, Eliesio Marubo on the bone-chilling reality of the danger of disinformation, and those who spread it as a means to protect profits.
Eliesio Marubo, activist and legal counsel for Union of Indigenous Peoples of the Javari Valley: I come from a region where organized crime prevails, where the authorities are negligent – the political world is deeply connected with organized crime. This led to a deliberate denial in 2022 of the importance of the Amazon and environmental issues, which we had been discussing globally. The result of this is that, in a very dramatic way, of the 5 people who were threatened, 3 were murdered. Only 2 are alive to tell the story. And unfortunately, I am one of those people, who dramatically continues to defend my territory, defend the environment, working as an Indigenous activist and also for environmental causes, making sure that people and the world understand the importance of telling the true story.
March 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Land defenders need more civil society and institutional support and public policy protections, implored Eliesio Marubo, Lawyer, activist, and legal counsel, Union of Indigenous Peoples of the Javari Valley (Univaja)
March 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Indigenous peoples have been on the receiving end of disinformation for decades, says Erisvan Guajajara Journalist and Activist, Coletivo Mídia Indígena
Screenshot from the Climate Information Integrity Summit livestream
March 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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For our Portuguese-speaking friends:
Screenshot of a slide from the Climate Information Integrity Summit... (I don't speak Portuguese, sorry!)
March 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM