Giovana Girardi is a science Brazilian journalist and has covered the environmental beat for more than 20 years, working for national outlets such as O Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S.Paulo, Scientific American, Galileu Magazine. Giovana has focused her stories on climate change issues, deforestation, environmental policies and international climate negotiations. She was a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT (2014/2015) and a Logan Science Journalism Program fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory (2015). In 2022, she produced an eight-episode narrative podcast called Tempo Quente, which is an investigation into how industrial, land and agricultural lobbies influence the political and economic forces that prevent Brazil from acting in the fight against climate change. Giovana leads the research and reporting, in addition to serving as host for the podcast. Currently, she is head of socio-environmental coverage at Agência Pública.