A Toolkit for Climate Hazard Reporting and Community Resilience

The Climate Frontline Toolkit was built from a year of workshops, listening sessions and expert consultations with journalists, newsrooms, researchers, emergency actors and community organisations in Spain and Portugal. Its tools, case studies and lessons draw primarily from two climate hazard pairs: wildfires and extreme heat, and floods and droughts - the realities our project communities lived through directly.

This toolkit proposes a shift from event-based reporting towards  systemic resilience journalism: reporting that helps communities understand not only what happened, but why it happened, who is most affected, how risks and vulnerabilities are created, and what actions can strengthen preparedness, accountability and resilience over time.

The toolkit comes as a practical package: one comprehensive reporting toolkit accompanied by four printable Field Guides - each designed to support a different stage of climate hazard reporting. It distils a year of collaboration with journalists, scientists, emergency responders and communities into practical guidance for reporting on climate hazards before, during and after.