Klimafakten.de is based on the idea that we are confronted with difficult decisions, especially regarding our individual and collective reactions to climate change. However, a constructive debate around this topic requires facts and good communication.
This is why klimafakten.de breaks down complex climate research and facts in an easily digestible way and showcases their relevance for business and society. In addition, the organisation actively engages with critical rebuttals to climate change facts.
The organisation supports journalists and professionals, including representatives from activist groups, associations, governmental structures, or research centres, to communicate better about climate change and its consequences.
Its mission is to foster an open public debate about climate change through accurate and reliable information, and to motivate audiences to turn their knowledge into positive actions. To do so, the team works with a scientific advisory board and publishes the information after three independent reviews have fact-checked it.
Its primary formats include short reports, a fact-checking unit, current news, and practical examples of content, manuals, actors, and institutions with exemplary reporting on climate change. More recently, the organisation started providing workshops, presentations, and training on climate communication. Klimafakten.de also runs the K3 Klimakommunikationskonferenz (in English: Climate Communication Conference), which includes a journalism award honouring the best climate projects.
The media outlet, launched in 2011, is financed by the European Climate Foundation and the Mercator Foundation, alongside its sister project Clean Energy Wire. Through this, it remains an editorially independent, non-profit media outlet without political or economic interests.
Klimafakten.de was recognised by Environmental Action Germany with the Environmental Media Prize in 2017, and by the German Psychological Society (DGPs) with the Science Journalism Award in 2022.
Source: Oasis Europe
Last updated date: November 2025
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