Climate Facts Europe
A Past Project of the EFCSN, funded by the European Climate Foundation
From March to September 2024, the Climate Facts Europe project facilitated collaboration between fact-checking organisations for work related to climate misinformation and disinformation during the European Elections.
Managing the climate fact-checking database showed us just how vital cross-border collaboration is in tackling climate misinformation. The four reports produced as part of that work are must-reads — they offer clear, evidence-based insights into how misleading narratives evolve, especially around elections. I’m really glad to see this kind of work continue through EuroClimateCheck. It proves that systematic, data-driven reporting can make a real impact.
Tori Zopf, Project Manager, EFCSN
As part of the project, the EFCSN built a database of climate fact-checks, which were researched and written by EFCSN member organisations. The database is no longer being actively contributed to, and the EFCSN’s latest work on climate mis- and disinformation is EuroClimateCheck. The data from the Climate Facts Europe project fueled the EuroClimateCheck database.
EFCSN members published four in-depth reports on climate misinformation, analyzing data from participating members to provide a broader picture of trends observed before and after the elections.
Reports can be read in full below:
- You Are What You Eat: How Disinformation Spreaders Use Food Topics to Manipulate Europeans written by Delfi from Lithuania
- Fertile Ground for Disinformation: From Spreading Climate Change Misinformation to Undermining Climate Action: How the Farmers’ Protests Were Used to Influence Audiences written by Science Feedback from France & Newtral from Spain
- Climate Conspiracies in the Western Balkans: Widely Imported and Persistently Repeated written by Methamorphosis from North Macedonia
- Climate Denialism in Italy, Spain, and Greece Stemming from Extreme Weather Events written by Maldita.es from Spain, Facta from Italy and Ellinika Hoaxes from Greece
Reports
