Global / December 2025 | Dalena Reporters
The UNESCO has sounded the alarm over a growing wave of misinformation and disinformation around climate change warning that false or misleading content threatens to undermine efforts to tackle the climate crisis worldwide.
Under its newly launched Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change, UNESCO is calling on governments, media organisations, civil-society actors, researchers, educators and the private sector to collaborate in defending the integrity of climate-related information. The initiative aims to ensure that climate action is guided by accurate, evidence-based reporting not distorted by misinformation, manipulation or vested interests.
The initiative’s objectives include exposing and dismantling disinformation campaigns, supporting independent climate journalism and research, strengthening public access to trustworthy information about climate risks and solutions, and protecting those who report on environmental issues from harassment and threats.
UNESCO says the integrity of climate information is “indispensable” to mobilizing public support, guiding policy decisions, and enabling collective action needed to limit global warming. According to the framework: when the public lacks access to trustworthy information or is fed contradictory messages it becomes harder to build consensus, hold decision-makers accountable, and mount effective responses to environmental challenges.
By launching this global push now just before the 2025 global climate summits UNESCO hopes to curb what many experts call a "disinformation pandemic": coordinated campaigns that deny climate science, downplay environmental risks, or promote false solutions in order to delay urgent climate mitigation and adaptation measures.