How dark money and anti-science conspiracistsare capturing Africa's climate story.
The Climate Capture Portal is a curated intelligence hub for forensic investigations into the funders, amplifiers, and networks subverting public understanding of climate across the continent.
Five reports. One continental picture.
Baseline Investigative Report
Foundational forensic mapping of climate disinformation actors, narratives, and platforms across the African continent.
Continental Toxic Ten Ratings Report
The first continental rating of the most prolific funders and amplifiers of African climate denialism and delayism.
Climate disinformation is no longer a fringe phenomenon. It is engineered, funded, and distributed at continental scale — and the evidence has been scattered across newsrooms, fact-checkers, and academic papers. The Climate Capture Portal brings it together.
The continental rating of climate-disinformation actors.
Newsfluencer Amplifiers
High-reach social-media accounts and content creators that amplify climate-denial narratives to mass African audiences.
Sham Scientists & Experts
Individuals presenting as scientific authorities while disseminating discredited or fabricated climate claims.
Puppet Think Tanks
Organisations producing pseudo-research that launders denial and delay narratives into the policy conversation.
Dark Money Funders
Behind-the-scenes donors and lobby networks bankrolling continental climate-denial activity.
Debunked climate claims, sourced from PesaCheck.
Open data, hosted on openAFRICA.
Toxic Ten Actor Index
Structured registry of continental-scale climate-disinformation actors used to power the Influence Leaderboard.
Narrative & Lexicon Corpus
Tagged corpus of weaponised climate narratives and terminology tracked by iLAB across African languages.
Platform Activity Log
Aggregated platform-level distribution data underpinning the Platform Distribution chart.
Forensic. Editorial. Open.
Source identification
iLAB analysts identify candidate actors using OSINT, partner intelligence, and CAAD/DeSmog reference databases.
Forensic analysis
Cross-platform content analysis, network mapping, and financial-flow tracing to verify actor classification.
Narrative coding
Content is coded against the CfA narrative codebook for type, frame, and weaponised lexicon.
A UNESCO-funded project, led by Code for Africa.
Code for Africa
iLAB, PesaCheck, DataLab, TechLab — investigative research, fact-checking, datasets, build.
UNESCO GIIICC
Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change. Programme commissioner.
CAAD
Climate Action Against Disinformation — global alliance and methodology partner referenced in the PRD.
openAFRICA
CKAN-based open-data platform hosting all structured datasets from the portal under CC BY-SA.