Data at the core of QuotaClimat’s mission

The Observatory (OME) is the first flagship data project we co developed with all our partners: Data For Good, éclaircies, eleven, Expertises Climat, Mediatree, Pour plus de climat dans les médias, and Science Feedback.

Its aim is to establish, in factual terms, how so called “traditional” media cover environmental issues: television, radio, and print.

In particular, it lets us:

• Measure media coverage of environmental issues
• Monitor climate misinformation in French media
• Quantify the advertising pressure of polluting sectors in the media

The Barometer (BBIE) replicates the Observatory in Belgium. It was initiated by the SPF Santé publique, Sécurité de la Chaîne alimentaire et Environnement (Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment) and the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA).

Its aim is to understand and strengthen how Belgian media handle environmental questions, and to counter disinformation. Its work covers both the French speaking and Dutch speaking scopes, and it analyses national channels and radio stations as well as local ones.

Rolling out this Barometer is the first step in Belgium’s national strategy to counter climate disinformation.

Climate Safeguards is a unique collaboration with Data For Good and Science Feedback that takes the work done in France and spreads climate disinformation detection internationally.

It runs on an open source, four step methodology:

• Semantic analysis to identify whether a climate related segment is present
• Automated detection, via a language model, of whether there is a risk of climate misinformation
• Systematic fact checking of the flagged segments, following the standards of the European Fact-Checking Standards Network
• Statistical clustering of misinformation cases into recurring disinformation narratives

In keeping with our principles and values around data production, all the code is designed to be replicable and deployable across multiple languages.

So far, the project has produced concrete results for the following countries:

Informing is a right. Being informed is too. This right to information is enshrined in our Constitution, as well as in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Today it is under threat.

Droit à l’Info is the first initiative designed to stem disinformation as soon as it appears, end to end, from detection to alert.

In practice:

• Detect recurring narratives, using our technology
• Verify the facts, with our fact checking partners
• Assess the risk, because over reacting to disinformation is just as risky as under reacting
• Send out alerts, within 48 hours, to stem disinformation before it spreads