About LACK

LACK (Lobbying Against Climate Knowledge) is a research project developing a knowledge graph of the individuals and organisations involved in lobbying against climate science awareness and climate policy. It is part of the ClimateSense project at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi).

The knowledge graph is built from a large corpus of real-world relation expressions extracted from investigative journalism sources, and is described using a purpose-built lightweight ontology.

Sources

LACK is built primarily from two investigative sources:

Additional candidate sources are under consideration.

Status

LACK is an active research project. The current version of the knowledge graph is v1.1, released on 5 October 2026.