Governments Lack Climate Information Integrity Strategies

The World Economic Forum have released their 2026 Global Risks Report today, highlighting mis- and disinformation alongside extreme weather as two of the most significant threats for the next decade. The report states: "Misinformation and disinformation are of particular concern in the online world. The integrity of online news and broader information is increasingly under threat, as distinguishing between authentic and synthetic content, whether video, audio, or written, is becoming progressively more difficult." "According to a survey by the Reuters Institute, 58% of respondents globally are concerned about how to distinguish truth from falsehood in online news. This figure rises to 73% in both Africa and the United States. In parallel to rising concerns about misinformation and disinformation, trust in news is falling and news avoidance is rising." These findings highlight how intertwined information integrity, democratic resilience and climate action have become. If people can’t trust what they’re seeing and reading, it’s much harder to win backing for the policies we need to deal with growing climate and security risks. Read the report in full: https://lnkd.in/ekhX65rF

New research from QuotaClimat ⏱, Science Feedback and Data For Good documents how climate disinformation spreads through mainstream TV and radio in Brazil, Spain, France and Poland, driven by a relatively small group of channels. Researchers logged 815 cases of climate disinfo, 85% on private outlets, with France alone accounting for 665 incidents. Much of it targets renewables and leans on anti‑EU and anti‑elite narratives, with pro‑agribusiness spin in Brazil. The report underlines how vulnerable traditional media can be at key political and climate moments and why we need stronger media watchdogs, better training for journalists and more expert voices on air. Read the report in full: https://lnkd.in/eXa9kP6M

A new Climate News Tracker survey of 80 journalists, producers, editors and production staff across BBC News, Sky News, ITV News, Channel 4 News and Channel 5 News finds that climate is seen as a mainstream public interest issue, but coverage still isn’t fully meeting audience needs. 📺 89% say climate reporting needs new approaches 📺 71% say there are not enough climate stories in the news 📺 64% say current reporting is not fully meeting audience needs 📺 54% say coverage lacks sufficient context The public is paying attention and journalists want to do more. The question is whether newsrooms and editors will step up. https://lnkd.in/exeNVGQt

🚨 NewClimate Institute's primer 'New guidance for EU policymakers on countering climate disinformation' is out now. The primer offers practical tools for EU and Member State policymakers to understand, anticipate and respond to climate disinformation across the policy cycle — from regulation and transparency to monitoring, preparedness and strategic communication. Read the primer in full: https://lnkd.in/efNbjjs3 With contributions from Climate Action Against Disinformation, ACT Climate Labs, Conscious Advertising Network, Tactical Tech and QuotaClimat ⏱

In June 2026, Climate Action Against Disinformation and European Digital Media Observatory warned that wildfire and heatwave disinformation was likely unless social platforms took action. Despite that warning, the same false narratives spread across social media this summer. Our new report, "A Summer of Extreme Lies: Heatwave and Wildfire Climate Disinformation in 2026", documents how disinfluencers recycled familiar climate lies during extreme weather events, how those narratives resurfaced across platforms, and how millions were exposed despite repeated warnings. https://lnkd.in/epWe8Fzt

A new investigation from Global Witness has found that AI chatbots are sharing climate conspiracies, denial and disinformation, and are most likely to push this content to conspiratorial user personas. Key findings include: ❌ Chatbots share climate disinformers while sowing doubts about climate disinformation initiatives. ❌ Chatbots varied significantly in how they proactively shared climate disinformation depending on their personalisation. ❌ Grok offered, unprompted, to make the social media posts it drafted more and more outrageous, including making posts more “violent” to boost engagement. Read the investigation in full: https://lnkd.in/eXBcyhg3

Out now: 10 priorities to tackle climate disinformation! Discover the outcome of a year-long process, led by the governments of Armenia and Brazil, to identify the challenges the information ecosystem poses to effective climate and environmental governance and the solutions we suggest! As the co-chairs of the workstream put it: “protecting information integrity is not merely a technical challenge but a foundational requirement for democratic governance and effective climate action in the 21st century. This urgency is particularly evident in contexts where environmental stress, societal resilience, and trust in public information are closely intertwined.” This report is a call to action. More here: https://lnkd.in/eA-7W7YP Andrew Heffernan Charlotte Scaddan Joao Brant Nina Santos Jonah T. Jake Dubbins Alex Murray Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Thais Lazzeri Laxman Datt Pant Emerson Clarke Marina Meira Oona Castro Stephanie H.

Health and climate misinformation are not separate problems. They are the same system. Same networks. Same playbook. Bigger consequences. This study is important because it connects the dots and shows how these narratives reinforce each other. If we keep treating them in silos, we fall behind. A clear, timely step forward. 👏

Disinformation is not just a climate problem. It is a public health one. Hot new piece out from the Global Climate and Health Alliance shows how misleading narratives delay climate action and put lives at risk, from heat illness to worsening air quality. Clear information matters. So does calling out tactics that create doubt and slow progress. Have a read to understand how the health consequences of disinformation are by no means abstract: https://lnkd.in/eGWmsgRJ

Circular World Media - COP30 is now in full swing, and some interesting progress is being made. On Wednesday 12 Nov 2025, 12 nations signed onto the first-ever Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change - Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Uruguay - promising to defend against the rising wave of mis- and disinformation enshrouding the topic and to protect the environmental journalists, scientists and researchers committing their lives to dispelling false narratives. The circulation of climate misinformation is a global problem. According to a recent Reuters survey, which found that, on average, across the eight countries, politicians and parties were the most closely associated with climate change misinformation (12%), followed by governments (11%), and then activists and celebrities (10%). Scientists were the most trusted source of climate change information (74%). 1. Misinformation is false or inaccurate information - getting the facts wrong. 2. Disinformation is false information which is deliberately intended to mislead - intentionally misstating the facts. ******************************* Climate Information Integrity website: https://lnkd.in/gVtTKJ8V Statista: https://lnkd.in/g2J3BVk5 Definitions of mis-information & dis-information: https://lnkd.in/gPJzhV8P