February 2016 was the hottest month on record. Two months earlier world leaders gathered in Paris to hammer out a climate deal just as extreme weather events were causing drought in Southern Africa....
Laurie Goering
Laurie Goering edits the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s daily news website on the humanitarian and development impacts of climate change. As part of her work, she helps train and mentor a network of more than 100 developing world climate change journalists. Prior to coming to the Thomson Reuters Foundation in 2009, she worked as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune newspaper for 15 years based in New Delhi, Kuwait, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, Havana, Mexico City and London, covering a wide range of issues. Raised in the U.S. Midwest, she has long firsthand experience of farming issues.