Laurie Goering

Biography

Laurie Goering is an award-winning climate change journalist and editor, who has written about and run coverage of climate change issues for more than 20 years, from about 80 countries. She was a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune newspaper based in Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, South Africa, India and the UK. She also created and for 14 years ran the Thomson Reuters Foundation's news website on the human impacts of a warming planet, recruiting and managing a team of freelance writers in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America, many of them in the most climate-vulnerable parts of the globe. She currently serves as the world’s first Extreme Heat Editor for Climate Resilience for All, alongside other work. She has a passion for telling human stories and has helped conceptualise and carry out explanatory or investigative work on extreme heat, food and water security, insurance, migration, climate tipping points, geoengineering, climate finance and indigenous/forest issues.