Julia Simon
Climate Solutions Correspondent, Climate Desk
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.
