29/06/2026
Last week at Chatham House, we gathered a room of leaders from , , and to ask a different kind of question.
Not how we fix a broken information ecosystem, but what we build in its place.
As part of London Climate Action Week, Verified for Climate and Chatham House co-convened a fireside chat and dinner, led by USG Melissa Fleming and Dr Simon Clark, on information integrity as the foundation an equitable climate transition depends on. A few of the threads that stayed with us:
→ The opposite of polarisation is not agreement. It's connection, and a stronger social contract. A healthy information ecosystem still holds friction, contested ideas and people who think very differently – with trust underneath it.
→ Shaping our ecosystem means building infrastructure: trusted messengers, cultural shift and multilateral coordination, resourced properly and coordinated globally.
→ Climate communicators and cultural voices are essential to a healthy information ecosystem, but also for showing us why it matters: because climate change is personal to every one of us. They help us confront anxiety, remind us of the joy of curiosity, and recognise that no culture thrives without a healthy planet.
We closed by asking the room to inhabit the outcome: picture ordinary life in 2100, after several generations have grown up in a healthy information ecosystem. That's the world this work is for.
Thank you to Chatham House for hosting, to the UN Department of Global Communications and the Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change, and to TikTok and the Minderoo Foundation for making this work possible. And to everyone who joined us in the room – the conversation continues.
