The team

Megan Rowling

Editor

Megan Rowling

Editor
Megan Rowling is the editor of Climate Home News, taking over in February 2024 after nearly two decades as a journalist with the Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF), developing its award-winning coverage of climate change. She has written extensively on international climate politics and finance, with a focus on the developing world, for which she won a UN Correspondents’ Association award in 2016. At TRF, she also led teams reporting on climate resilience and just transition. She is specialised in humanitarian crises, sustainable development and disaster risk reduction. In her early career, she worked as a business reporter for Reuters TV, BBC World and Jiji Press.During her spare time, she indulges her passions for dance (you’re never too old to start ballet classes!), music, languages and wandering about in nature.

Matteo Civillini

Reporter

Matteo Civillini

Reporter
Matteo Civillini has been a reporter at Climate Home News since February 2023. He specialises in accountability journalism on climate finance and carbon markets, while also covering UN climate diplomacy and the nexus between plastics and fossil fuels.He previously worked at BBC World News and at Irpimedia, a non-profit investigative journalism outlet in Italy. He has reported on everything 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 - with the occasional win, including the Amnesty International Media Award in 2021.When he is not working, he can most likely be found in nature. He especially enjoys orienteering, climbing and skiing. He is also known for his risottos and for buying Parmesan by the kilogram.

Joe Lo

News editor

Joe Lo

News editor
Joe Lo has been news editor at Climate Home News since 2023. He joined as a reporter in 2020 after stints writing about container shipping, Scotland and British politics. He’s particularly interested in where ‘investment protection’ meets the climate and has reported on this issue in Grenada, Slovenia and across Europe and Asia. His climate reporting highlight was two weeks at Cop26 in Glasgow, watching the final deal dramatically get done. He’s a huge Chelsea FC fan and a distant relative of Bruce Lee – although his own martial arts career ended quickly as his feet got too cold.

Sebastian Rodriguez

Investigations and special projects editor

Sebastian Rodriguez

Investigations and special projects editor
Sebastián Rodríguez is investigations and special projects editor for Climate Home News, which he joined in 2022. Based in San José, Costa Rica, he started out as a reporter for Ojo al Clima, Central America’s first climate news outlet. He has reported on climate for Reuters, DW and Mongabay. Before joining Climate Home News, he was editor-in-chief at Climate Tracker. He has an MSc in climate change, development and policy from the University of Sussex.In his spare time, he enjoys playing chess, videogames and hiking rainforests.

Mariel Lozada

Audience engagement editor

Mariel Lozada

Audience engagement editor
Mariel Lozada has been Climate Home New's audience engagement editor since 2023. She has experience reporting on gender, health and immigration and is especially interested in how these topics relate to climate. She holds a Master’s Degree in Engagement Journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Originally from Venezuela, she splits her time between New York City and Latin America.When she’s not working, she loves reading, practicing yoga and taking on every crafty project she can find (not always successfully).

Paddy Vipond

Development Manager

Paddy Vipond

Development Manager
Paddy Vipond joined Climate Home News as the Development Manager in March 2024, supporting the team as he completed his MSc in Society, Politics and Climate Change from the University of Bristol. A committed humanitarian and environmentalist, he has worked for more than a decade in the NGO sector in a variety of roles for the likes of Renewable World, Freedom from Torture, Stonewall, and Collective Aid. He is passionate about playing a role in finding solutions to the deepening climate crisis and helping all those impacted by it.An eclectic blend of interests keeps Paddy’s mind from wandering too frequently to despairing at the state of the world. He collects books, tattoos, passport stamps, and memories, avoids social media, and longs to see a badger that isn’t roadkill.

Vivian Chime

Africa energy transition reporter

Vivian Chime

Africa energy transition reporter
Vivian Chime joined Climate Home News in November 2024 as Africa energy transition reporter. Before that, she was head of the climate desk at the TheCable online news service in Nigeria where she pioneered climate change reporting starting in 2021. She also worked in a part-time role as Africa Journalism Manager at Climate Tracker in 2023, where she was also a global media mentorship fellow and a COP27 climate justice fellow.She is a member of the Reuters Institute Oxford Climate Journalism Network. Her work has received awards including the 2021 International Center for Journalists’ Global Health Crisis Award for COVID-19 reporting, Climate Tracker’s Best Climate Justice Story Award and TheCable’s Journalist of the Year award in 2022.When away from her desk, Vivian loves spending time with family and sometimes takes long walks with her husband or hits the gym to stay active, where you’ll likely see her with earphones plugged in listening to books on Shortform or playing Nigerian gbedu.

Chloé Farand

Editor of Clean Energy Frontier

Chloé Farand

Editor of Clean Energy Frontier
Chloé Farand is the editor of Climate Home News' Clean Energy Frontier series investigating supply chains for clean energy technologies. She first joined Climate Home News as a reporter in 2019 and has covered international climate politics and the energy transition extensively since then. In January 2023, she set off on a freelancing journey and has since covered climate and environment stories for The Guardian, AFP, Devex and Dialogue Earth among others.Growing up near a large forest in France, she is her happiest when among trees. She loves being outside hiking, camping and running, and regularly gets her hands dirty making uneven mugs and bowls at a potter's wheel.

Fanis Kollias

Multimedia designer

Fanis Kollias

Multimedia designer
Fanis has served as the multimedia designer at Climate Home News since 2023. He is the founder and creative producer of Spoovio, a one-stop multimedia content studio specialising in services for investigative newsrooms. His portfolio includes collaborations with organisations such as Investigate Europe, Lighthouse Reports, Reporters United, Arena for Journalism in Europe, SIRAJ (Syrian Investigative Reporting for Accountability Journalism), and the Anti-Corruption Data Collective. With a background in business administration and social entrepreneurship, Fanis has built an extensive career in social impact organisations. He worked in the communications department of Greenpeace's Greek office and at Caritas Hellas. He was also a founding member of Refugees Welcome - Greece. In 2016, he founded the Greek investigative media outlet Solomon, which he led until 2022.