The team
Matteo Civillini joined Climate Home News in February 2023 as a reporter. 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. In 2021, his investigation into human rights abuses in the tomato supply chain, in partnership with CBC, won the Amnesty International Media Award. Matteo strongly believes in the power of collaborative cross-border journalism to make a difference.
At the weekend, 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.
Megan Darby joined Climate Home in 2014 and became the editor in 2021. She is on maternity leave until September 2023. In her reporting career, Megan rocked the boat at UN shipping talks, told the inside story of the “lionesses” behind net zero and explored what climate migration looks like in Bangladesh. Her previous job at Utility Week taught her the difference between energy and electricity. Now her role is to make space for quality climate journalism to flourish. If all goes to target, she will reach retirement age in a net zero emissions society – but as a journalist, she doesn’t take that on trust.
When she is not editing, Megan enjoys singing, crosswords and discovering the world anew with the next generation.
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Adam Wentworth is Climate Home’s associate editor for sponsored content and a freelance writer based in Brighton, UK. He has spent 10 years working in renewable energy and sustainability. He was previously an editor at Climate Action and his work has appeared in a variety of trade publications.
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.
Mariel Lozada joined Climate Home News in July 2023 as Audience Engagement Editor. A freelance journalist based in NYC, she previously worked as Spanish Associate Editor for the Global Investigative Journalism Network. She holds a Master’s Degree in Engagement Journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and has worked in the field for outlets both in the US and Latin America.
When she’s not working, she loves reading, doing yoga and taking on every crafty project she can find (not always successfully).
Sebastián Rodríguez is acting editor of Climate Home News and has been special projects editor since 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 reported from the frontlines of the climate crisis and investigated the fishing and pineapple industry in Costa Rica.
In his spare time, he enjoys playing chess, videogames and hiking rainforests.