Matteo Civillini
Matteo Civillini is a reporter at Climate Home News who specialises in accountability journalism on climate finance, carbon markets and UN climate diplomacy. His work tracks how political and financial interests shape global climate negotiations, headline pledges and the treatment of climate science inside multilateral processes. He brings an investigative background in corruption and organised crime to climate reporting, using cross-border investigations and data-driven methods to follow money and power through the climate system.
Climate science and fossil fuel interests in UN negotiations
Civillini covers efforts by coalitions of countries to defend climate science in UN talks when they warn of “coordinated attacks” from states with fossil fuel interests. In his reporting on science “under attack” at mid-year negotiations in Bonn, he highlights diplomats grouped under the Friends of Science banner as they vow to keep UN climate decision-making grounded in the “best available science”, including Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessments.
He shows how attempts to challenge established concepts such as the 1.5C global warming limit are linked to economic agendas rather than scientific uncertainty, with negotiators pointing to “the usual suspects” that view science as a threat to their prospects. His coverage stays close to specific negotiating battles and closed-door discussions, detailing how scientific timelines and reports can be delayed or diluted within the formal process.
Scrutinising climate movement responses and NGO coalitions
In parallel with diplomatic coverage, Civillini reports on how the climate movement responds when science is contested, focusing on internal debates within major NGO coalitions instead of treating advocacy groups as a single bloc. His piece on the climate movement splitting over how to respond to attacks on science at UN talks follows arguments within CAN International and other organisations about whether to echo positions advanced by fossil fuel-dependent governments or to hold a firmer scientific line. He foregrounds negotiators and campaigners who warn of a “polluted narrative” around science, while tracing how these narratives feed into disputes over the timing and scope of upcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports and their role in the next global stocktake.
By linking messaging battles to procedural questions about IPCC inputs and stocktake design, his work shows how NGO strategies intersect with the technical architecture of climate governance.
Accountability reporting on climate finance and carbon markets
Civillini’s core specialism is accountability journalism that follows climate finance flows and the design and oversight of carbon markets.
As a reporter at Climate Home News and a contributor to other outlets, he focuses on how financial institutions and policymakers structure climate-related pledges and instruments, and on what is omitted from those commitments. His coverage of the COP31 electrification pledge illustrates this approach, highlighting criticism that the initiative accelerates electrification without explicitly requiring the extra power to come from clean energy sources.
He uses stories of this kind to interrogate whether high-profile announcements align with climate goals or leave loopholes that benefit incumbent fossil fuel interests and delay genuine decarbonisation.
Investigative background in corruption and organised crime
Before focusing on climate, Civillini built a record in investigative reporting on transnational organised crime, money laundering and corruption. He has worked at BBC World News and at Irpimedia, a non-profit investigative journalism outlet, and has reported on topics ranging from mafia money laundering to songbird smuggling for publications including National Geographic, the Observer and OCCRP.
His investigations have been shortlisted for several international awards and have received recognition including an Amnesty International Media Award in 2021. This background in tracing complex financial and criminal networks informs his climate work, where he treats climate finance, carbon markets and diplomatic processes as systems that merit the same level of scrutiny and evidentiary rigour as his earlier investigations.
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Alec Luhn
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