Chico Harlan is The Washington Post’s global climate correspondent. His articles focus on the issues shaping the world’s climate future — and the people in the middle of those policies. He moved to Europe in 2018 as Rome bureau chief, where he covered migration, the pandemic, and wrote several defining investigative stories about the Catholic Church’s abuse crisis. Previously, he spent four years as the paper’s East Asia bureau chief, focusing on Japan and the Korean Peninsula. He grew up in Pittsburgh.