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Article

2 Dec 2015

Author:
Global Reporting Initiative (interview with Nabeelah Shabbir, the Guardian)

Keep it in the ground: One newspaper’s campaign to highlight climate change

…Editor in Chief of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, was mulling over what regrets he had…Very few – except for coverage of climate change…the conclusion Rusbridger came to: the climate change threat is central to everything. And so we went about crafting our journalism…in a very focused way. We teamed up with 350.org to launch a petition asking the world's two largest philanthropic organisations, Wellcome Trust and the Gates Foundation, to take their investments out of fossil fuels…We investigated oil and gas companies…We investigated 'carbon bombs' around the world in interactive format. We even released merchandise around #keepitintheground and we keep in touch with all interested readers. We ran an entire podcast dedicated to climate change, divestment, and the Guardian's role in it…at COP21…for us it is important to know at what cost, especially for the countries where 'development' is a bigger key word than 'environment'…