Editorial standards

ClimateTicker combines automated research and organisation with published rules, source links, and editorial accountability. These standards apply to the news feed, company scores, people profiles, and community content.

Editorial responsibility

Rob Hammond, ClimateTicker's founder and editor, is responsible for source selection, methodology, editorial policy, and publication decisions. A page will only describe itself as human-reviewed when that review has actually taken place.

News sources and selection

The news feed monitors a curated set of specialist and general-interest publishers through their public feeds. ClimateTicker links to the original publisher rather than republishing its article. Automated systems remove duplicates, identify climate relevance, group related coverage, and attach topics and companies.

Story prominence is influenced by recency, the number of independent sources covering a story, and public discussion signals. A high position is not an endorsement of a story, source, company, or quoted social account.

How AI is used

ClimateTicker uses AI to summarise linked news articles, classify topics and geography, identify named organisations, cluster related coverage, and assist with web-grounded research for company and people profiles. This makes it possible to organise more public information than one editor could process manually.

AI output can be incomplete or wrong. The original publisher remains the source for a news report. Company assessments are marked provisional where applicable, expose their methodology and supporting links, and should be treated as research rather than investment advice. People profiles are not published until an editor has reviewed them and their required evidence.

Company research and scores

Company research draws on public sources such as regulatory filings, company reports, target registries, certification bodies, public datasets, and reputable reporting. AI proposes the five sub-scores and cited rationale; the weighted total and greenwashing cap are applied deterministically in code. Read the full Green Score methodology.

People profiles

People are not scored. Profiles use neutral language, distinguish factual history from allegations or criticism, and require source links for affiliations and controversies. An editor reviews each profile before it is published. Read the full people-profile methodology.

Source and attribution standards

• Prefer primary records for factual claims where they are available.
• Use reputable reporting to add context or document disputed events.
• Attribute allegations and contested claims to their source.
• Keep opinion, community reviews, and third-party commentary distinct from ClimateTicker research.
• Do not knowingly publish claims that cannot be supported by accessible evidence.

Independence and conflicts

ClimateTicker is self-funded and does not accept payment for coverage, inclusion, removal, or ranking. If that funding model changes, relevant commercial relationships and conflicts will be disclosed clearly and close to the affected content.

Corrections and right of reply

Factual challenges are reviewed against the best available evidence. Significant errors are corrected rather than silently defended. People and organisations covered by ClimateTicker may submit evidence or a right of reply under our corrections policy.