About MeCCO
We monitor 131 sources (across newspapers, radio and TV) in 59 countries in seven different regions around the world. We assemble the data by accessing archives through Factiva, Infomedia, ProQuest, Nifty, NexisUni, and Retriever databases for our work across our various institutions. These sources are selected through a decision process involving the weighting of three main factors:
- geographical diversity (favoring a greater geographical range)
- circulation (favoring higher circulating publications)
- reliable access to archives over time (favoring those accessible consistently for longer periods of time)
MeCCO Research Team
Midori Aoyagi1, Ester Appelgren2, Anne Gammelgaard Ballantyne3, Grace Bennett-Pierre4, Max Boykoff5, Meaghan Daly6, Rhiannon Danborn5, Rogelio Fernández-Reyes7, Kaitlan Gil-Najarro8, Hannah Ha5, Kyotaek Hwang4, Isidro Jiménez Gómez9, Anna Kulikova5, Kyungsun Lee10, Jari Lyytimaki11, Lucy McAllister12, Erkki Mervaala11, Gabi Mocatta13, Ami Nacu-Schmidt5, Jeremiah Osborne-Gowey8, Olivia Pearman5, Bruna Ramos14, Kristina Riegert2, Anne Hege Simonsen15, Sitashma Thapa5, Hong Vu5, Andreas Ytterstad15
1National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan, 2Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden, 3Aarhus University, Denmark, 4University of New Mexico, USA, 5University of Colorado Boulder, USA, 6Independent Researcher, 7Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, 8Texas A&M, USA, 9Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 10University of Arkansas Little Rock, USA, 11Finnish Environment Institute, Finland, 12Denison University, USA, 13University of Tasmania, Australia, 14Universidade de Brasília, Brazil, 15Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
MeCCO Lead Team
Lead Project Investigator, Max Boykoff
Infographics, Design & Outreach Lead, Ami Nacu-Schmidt
Director of Global Operations, Jeremiah Osborne-Gowey
Director of Data Management, Olivia Pearman
ENVS Spring 2026 Graduate Research Assistant, Sitashma Thapa
MeCCO is a Multi-University Collaboration
University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
Texas A&M, USA |
