Paris Agreement, meet Montreal Framework. What UN Secretary-General António Guterres hailed as a “peace pact with nature” caps a year of huge developments in the climate story. On Monday, almost every country in the world — though not the United States — approved the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, as it is officially named. The deal […]
Global temperature rise, international climate conferences, Arctic glacier melts. In those terms, climate change can feel abstract and distant. But to understand how climate change is impacting people, we have to examine it at the local level. That makes local journalism indispensable to telling the climate story — and it’s why Covering Climate Now is […]
EACH MONTH, Covering Climate Now speaks with different journalists about their experiences on the climate beat and their ideas for pushing our craft forward. This week, we spoke with Mary Annaïse Heglar, who cohosts the climate podcast Hot Take with Amy Westervelt. Heglar’s writing has appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Wired, […]
The global media collaboration Covering Climate Now is proud to welcome four outstanding regional journalism outlets in the United States as partners: The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, Star Tribune (of Minneapolis), and The Texas Tribune. “Climate change is a global problem but it manifests in local communities, and good journalism is essential to making […]
“Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction… with a million species at risk of disappearing forever,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told reporters on Wednesday at COP15, the UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal. The conference gives journalists everywhere the opportunity to explain how halting the extinction of species is as crucial as halting the overheating […]
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This is a landmark week for climate journalism, as one of the world’s most influential news organizations, The Washington Post, announced a dramatic expansion of its climate coverage. “We have nearly tripled the size of our Climate team — totaling more than 30 journalists — part of a newsroom-wide commitment to covering perhaps the century’s […]
EACH MONTH, Covering Climate Now speaks with different journalists about their experiences on the climate beat and their ideas for pushing our craft forward. This week, we spoke with Branko Brkic, editor in chief of South Africa’s Daily Maverick. We talked about “20Twenties: Eve of Destruction,” an adaptation of a Vietnam-era protest anthem, produced by […]
The UN climate conference COP27 wrapped over the weekend in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, with a hard-fought deal reached on the creation of a loss and damage fund to compensate developing countries for the devastating and irretrievable losses suffered as a result of climate change. The breakthrough came after the US reversed its opposition to the […]
Within hours of its scheduled conclusion, COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh has been extended until Saturday, the AFP reports, with observers expressing dismay at how much work remains to be done. We’re writing this before COP27 concludes, so we don’t know what the final agreement might say. We are monitoring developments and next week will send […]
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