In addition to its flagship event, the European Conference of Science Journalism (ECSJ), the Federation hosts various online and offline events during the year: webinars, training sessions, panel discussions, sessions at partners’ events, and so on. If you’d like to suggest a topic for one of these events or pitch an event idea, please get in touch via info AT efsj.eu.
Responsible science journalism and technological solutions for the climate crisis
In 2025-2026, EFSJ is hosting a new series of online webinars, events and discussions exploring responsible science journalism on proposed technological solutions for the climate crisis. The series is curated by Olga Dobrovidova, the former vice-president of EFSJ. For more information and to suggest future events, please email dobrovidova@gmail.com.
On Monday, March 2, 2026, the EFSJ hosted a webinar on the various limits to carbon dioxide removal (CDR) as a proposed climate solution. Three prominent researchers in the field presented an overview of the place of CDR in national and global climate plans, important context for stories, and questions journalists may want to ask when they report on these projects.
We heard from Dr Nem Vaughan (Professor of Climate Change, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia), Dr Rupert Stuart-Smith (Deputy Director & Senior Researcher in Climate Science and the Law, Oxford Sustainable Law Programme), and Dr Neil Grant (Senior Expert, Climate Analytics).
On Monday, November 17, 2025, the EFSJ hosted Rebekah White, a science journalist, former managing editor of New Zealand Geographic and Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism 2024 fellow. Rebekah presented insights from her RISJ paper on covering “climate repair” – technologies and projects intended to halt or reverse global warming by removing carbon from the atmosphere or by intentionally modifying other parts of the climate system (for example, to reflect more sunlight back into space).
You can find Rebekah’s presentation here, and a ‘tear sheet’ for journalists from RISJ is here.
