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STORY: BELEM / CLIMATE CHANGE INFORMATION INTREGRITY
TRT: 01:36
SOURCE: COURTESY EMPRESA BRASIL DE COMUNICAÇÃO (EBC) / UN NEWS
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT EBC ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 10, 12 NOVEMBER 2025, BELEM, BRAZIL
10 NOVEMBER 2025, BELEM, BRAZIL
1. Pan left exterior, COP30 venue
12 NOVEMBER 2025, BELEM, BRAZIL
2. Wide shot, dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Charlotte Scaddan, Senior Adviser on Information Integrity, Department of Global Communications, United Nations (UNDGC):
“Purveyors of climate disinformation don't simply deny climate change. They undermine climate action by attacking researchers, scientists, and journalists personally; by questioning the scientific consensus around climate change and creating false narratives around climate solutions.”
4. Wide shot, dais
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Charlotte Scaddan, Senior Adviser on Information Integrity, Department of Global Communications, United Nations UNDGC):
“Climate change is being weaponized as a wedge issue to polarise entire societies into and to undermine and disrupt democratic processes.”
6. Wide shot, dais
7. Tracking shot, interior, COP30 venue
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Guilherme Canela, Chief, Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists section, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO):
“The issue of information integrity is being now perceived as it must be, as a cross-cutting element to the different discussions under the umbrella of climate change.”
9. Tracking shot, interior, COP30 venue
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Guilherme Canela, Chief, Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists section, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO):
“We know that there is a lot of disinformation about climate change, but we know very little about the characteristics of this disinformation. For example, who is funding it, why it spreads faster than the truth, as you are saying? What is the role of the algorithmic distribution and amplification in this? So, is the same disinformation in Indonesia, Kenya, Brazil, and so on, or is different? So, when we know this better, we will be able to produce better strategies and better policies about this.”
11. Tracking shot, interior, COP30 venue
12 nations today (12 Nov) signed onto the first-ever Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change, pledging to fight back against the flood of false content and protect those on the frontlines of truth: environmental journalists, scientists and researchers.
The declaration, unveiled under the Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change, calls for concrete steps to dismantle networks of climate lies and shield evidence-based voices from harassment and attacks.
At a press encounter to discuss the initiative, on the margins of the COP30 in Belem, Brazil, the United Nations Senior Adviser on Information Integrity, Charlotte Scaddan, said, “purveyors of climate disinformation don't simply deny climate change. They undermine climate action by attacking researchers, scientists, and journalists personally; by questioning the scientific consensus around climate change and creating false narratives around climate solutions.”
Scaddan said, “climate change is being weaponized as a wedge issue to polarise entire societies into and to undermine and disrupt democratic processes.”
Speaking to UN News, UNESCO’s Guilherme Canela said, “the issue of information integrity is being now perceived as it must be, as a cross-cutting element to the different discussions under the umbrella of climate change.”
Canela stressed that the global initiative aims to expose the machinery driving climate disinformation.
He said, “we know that there is a lot of disinformation about climate change, but we know very little about the characteristics of this disinformation. For example, who is funding it, why it spreads faster than the truth, as you are saying? What is the role of the algorithmic distribution and amplification in this? So, is the same disinformation in Indonesia, Kenya, Brazil, and so on, or is different? So, when we know this better, we will be able to produce better strategies and better policies about this.”
The Global Fund for Information Integrity on Climate Change, created under the initiative, has already attracted 447 proposals from nearly 100 countries. Backed by an initial $1 million from Brazil, the fund is supporting its first round of projects – almost two-thirds from developing nations.
