about me
Agata A. Skrzypczyk is an environmental journalist, communications specialist, and energy economist. She received her education in Denmark and Poland. Over more than 10 years, she has worked around the world on a variety of environmental and energy-related topics.
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She has been developing a journalistic career focused on finding unrepresented stories and covering them from the field. In her work, she focuses on climate injustice, energy democracy and just transition processes. She tries to find a human perspective of those, involved in the global processes.
For two years, she hosted a live radio show on the environment and climate change, which resulted in her appearance in the documentary It’s OK to Panic.
In 2019, she earned a Transatlantic Media Fellowship during which she followed the U.S. energy-transition process. She published a series of articles portraying energy democracy through the eyes of residents in New York, Detroit, and the U.S. Midwest.
In 2020, she investigated controversies around the Nord Stream II pipeline by travelling to a German harbor where the vessel Akademik Cherskiy was stationed.
Her reporting covers Sweden’s waste-management system, indigenous Berber families in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains, hurricane risk in Ecuador, and just-transition efforts in Poland’s largest coal regions.
In 2023, in collaboration with the U.K.’s Bureau of Investigative Journalism, she investigated antibiotic use in a poultry supply chain—exposing links to global antimicrobial resistance.
In collaboration with Transitions and Hanna Valentys, she covered the E40 Waterway development across Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine.
She has received the Transatlantic Media Fellowship and recognition from Transitions, Earth Journalism, and the International Press Institute.