About
The primary record, read every morning
OnlineJourno ClimateWatch is a global climate and disaster desk that reads the record from the Global South. Every morning it turns the primary record — disaster alerts from GDACS and the IFRC, natural-event records from NASA EONET, the statements of Global South blocs, regional climate centres and risk pools across Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the multilateral climate and disaster-risk record — into a daily brief that asks one question: what does this mean for the Global South, its economies, its people, its governments and their negotiating positions? Not a rewrite of the news: the source itself, before it is news anywhere.
Why it exists
The commodity layer — summarising the day's headlines — is collapsing into the answer engines. The durable value is the primary record: what an alerting system, an earth-observation service or a treaty body actually published, monitored systematically and read with judgement. ClimateWatch is an instrument for that record, not a headline machine. It is neither a national desk nor a Northern one: decisions taken in the North are read for what they do to the South.
How to read it
- Brief — the composed daily digest of what moved in the hazard and climate-policy record, every item linked to its primary source.
- Sources — the registry. Feeds still awaiting an adapter are shown, not hidden.
- Graph and Ledger (invite-only) — the part that compounds: actors resolved across sources over time, and climate commitments tracked to their outcome. Ask for access.
Honest about the preview
This is a new Watch. It runs on open feeds from hazard-alerting services, Global South bodies and multilateral institutions; the full list, including sources registered but not yet wired, is on the Sources page. Some regions are still thin — the Middle East has no working primary feed yet. Briefs are composed by an AI model and carry a “not yet reviewed by an editor” note — they demonstrate the instrument, not finished editorial. The tool advises; it never decides.