Julia Simon
Julia Simon is NPR's Climate Solutions correspondent. She covers the ways governments, businesses, scientists and everyday people are working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
In her role on NPR's Climate Desk, Simon helped launch and now helps run the network's annual Climate Solutions Week.
Simon has traveled around the world in search of climate solutions. She went to Paris to learn about a 15-minute climate solution, and watched a rocket blast into space so a satellite can spot planet-heating methane. She trekked deep into the Sumatran rainforest and visited a "hotel for cows" in Colombia to learn about solutions to reduce deforestation.
She also works to hold institutions accountable for the climate solutions they push–and those they block. Simon visited a small town in Mississippi to meet residents still suffering health impacts of a carbon dioxide pipeline explosion and investigated the lack of regulation of solar geoengineering experiments. She's also reported on misinformation derailing renewable energy projects across the U.S..
She began her career at the BBC Cairo bureau and has worked as an energy reporter at Reuters. A longtime guest host for Planet Money, Simon was a part of a Planet Money team that was a finalist for the Gerald Loeb award.
Simon lived in and reported from Egypt, Indonesia and Nigeria, where she was a Fulbright Scholar covering the oil sector. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago and studied international energy and climate change as a KSP scholar at the Sciences Po in Paris.
Simon speaks and reports in Egyptian Arabic, Spanish, French and Indonesian. She can be reached via encrypted message at juliaradio.33 on Signal.
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Two years ago Colombia pledged to stop exploring for new oil, gas and coal. On the world stage, this was a big deal. Here's what's happened since. -
Under President Trump, the U.S. has taken steps to roll back climate policies. Here are six significant changes. -
When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact. -
The banned words list applies to all work done at the largest federal funder of clean energy technology. -
Energy Secretary Chris Wright has disbanded a controversial Climate Working Group (CWG), which wrote a report that scientists say was full of errors and misrepresented climate science. -
A new study finds dozens of heat waves would be "virtually impossible" without the activity of major fossil fuel producers, including oil companies. -
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science. -
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reposted the video profiling Christian Nationalist Pastor Doug Wilson, who opposes same-sex marriage. -
The Trump administration plans to end a $7 billion Biden-era program that helps low-income households get solar power. -
As Canadian wildfires spread smoke across the U.S. the air pollution is dangerous to health. But there are ways to protect yourself. Here's what to know.
