Centre for Climate Reporting

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Centre for Climate Reporting
Centre for Climate Reporting logo.svg
Type of businessPrivate company
Founded2022
Headquarters
Suffolk, England
Founder(s) Lawrence Carter
Tom Costello
URL https://climate-reporting.org

The Centre for Climate Reporting (CCR) is a British non-profit investigative journalism outlet based in Mildenhall, Suffolk, [1] that focuses on stories surrounding climate change. [2] It is known for its undercover operations. [3]

Three people worked for CCR as of December 2023, including co-founders Lawrence Carter and Tom Costello. [3] It receives funding through grants, donations, and philanthropy. As of November 2025, its funders include the European Climate Foundation, KR Foundation, Meliore Foundation and Swiss Philanthropy Foundation. [4]

Background

CCR was incorporated on October 13, 2021 by journalist Lawrence Carter, [5] and was "set up in early 2022". [3]

In 2023, it, in collaboration with the BBC, reported on a plan by the United Arab Emirates and Sultan Al Jaber to use the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference for making oil deals. [6] It also collaborated with Amy Westervelt and Drilled on an investigation into "petrostates". [7] With The Guardian, it exposed a pattern of Wikipedia editing to cover up Al Jaber's conflict of interest as the owner of an oil company. [8] In collaboration with Channel 4, employees from the centre went undercover in Saudi Arabia, and reported on secretive plans to increase oil dependency in developing nations in Asia and Africa. [9]

In 2024, reporters from the centre posed as wealthy donors, working their way up to a meeting with Russell Vought of Project 2025. In the meeting, which was covertly recorded and published to YouTube, Vought was adamant that Donald Trump blessed the Heritage Foundation's work, despite Trump having publicly distanced himself from the project. [10]

References

  1. ↑ "CENTRE FOR CLIMATE REPORTING LTD overview". Companies House . Retrieved 2025-12-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ↑ "Home". Centre for Climate Reporting. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
  3. 1 2 3 Now, Covering Climate. "Q&A: Exposing obstruction with the Centre for Climate Reporting's Lawrence Carter". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
  4. ↑ "Home - Funding". Centre for Climate Reporting. Archived from the original on 2025-11-12. Retrieved 2025-12-16.
  5. ↑ "CENTRE FOR CLIMATE REPORTING LTD filing history". Companies House . Archived from the original on 2025-12-26. Retrieved 2025-12-26.
  6. ↑ "UAE planned to use COP28 climate talks to make oil deals". 2023-11-27. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
  7. ↑ "Petrostates: How the math changes when the government runs the oil company". Drilled. 2023-07-24. Archived from the original on 2025-11-12. Retrieved 2025-11-12.
  8. ↑ Stockton, Ben (2023-05-30). "Cop28 president's team accused of Wikipedia 'greenwashing'". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2024-10-18.
  9. ↑ "Undercover filming highlights Saudi plan to artificially raise oil demand". Channel 4 News. 2023-11-27. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
  10. ↑ Lah, Curt Devine, Casey Tolan, Audrey Ash, Kyung (2024-08-15). "In secretly recorded video, Project 2025 co-author says he's drafted hundreds of executive orders for Trump | CNN Politics". CNN. Retrieved 2024-10-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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