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Ivan Couronne is the "Future of the Planet" chief editor at Agence France-Presse in Paris. He reports to AFP's Global Editor-in-Chief and oversees climate coverage for AFP's 1,700 journalists worldwide, who produce text, photo, and video news content in six languages. Working with AFP's business, environmental and general news reporters, he is in charge of unifying coverage of the causes and impact of climate change, of the energy transition, and of the responses to the climate crisis. Additionally, Ivan coordinates coverage of major environmental events such as COPs and supervises AFP's climate training program for the global newsroom. Previously, he spent ten years at AFP's bureau in Washington, DC, where he worked as a video journalist, US Congress and politics correspondent, and science, space, and environment correspondent.

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More and better! Scaling up climate reporting  

With Mitali Mukherjee and Ivan Couronne

Climate change is still unchecked, and most media organisations are unable to or unwilling to adequately respond to it. To change this within rapidly closing windows for action, scale and impact become crucial. Join this fireside chat between the team behind the world’s largest climate reporting network (the Oxford Climate Journalism Network) and the team running climate journalism at the world’s oldest newswire agency (AFP).