“The 1.5-degree limit is only possible if we ultimately stop burning all fossil fuels,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said last Friday in Dubai. “Not reduce. Not abate. Phaseout — with a clear timeframe aligned with 1.5 degrees C.” Guterres made those remarks two days before news broke that Sultan Al Jaber, the president of COP28 […]
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Inequality has always been at the heart of the climate crisis. Traditionally, inequality between countries has loomed largest: Rich countries have been responsible for the most greenhouse gas emissions, but poor countries have suffered the most from the extreme heat, drought, storms, and rising seas driven by those emissions. New research highlighted last week in […]
This story was originally posted in The Nation. At this week’s COP28 climate meeting in Dubai, the focus will rightly be on the state of the planet. A record number of delegates—some 70,000 people, including heads of state—will be haggling over ways to curb carbon and methane emissions as the warmest year in earth’s history […]
Covering Climate Now, the global media collaboration, is expanding its newsroom training initiatives to strengthen climate coverage on local TV stations across the US. The project, called The Climate Station, builds on Covering Climate Now’s existing work with its 600 media partners around the world, and includes free, customized training to help local stations cover […]
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This week’s Climate Beat included a broken link to the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication study. The link has been corrected below. Most people don’t know as much about climate change as they think they do. That’s according to a landmark survey published this week by the Yale Program on Climate Communications, the gold […]
New data published last week by Le Monde, the Guardian, and other news outlets, document 422 oil, gas, or coal production sites, whose potential greenhouse gas emissions would destroy any chance of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change. The data is an excellent jumping off […]
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Climate justice has lost a towering figure. And with the COP28 climate summit opening four weeks from today, journalists have lost an invaluable source — a peerless guide to the insider maneuverings, power politics, and especially the moral questions at the heart of international climate negotiations. Saleemul Huq died Saturday at his home in Dhaka, […]
For the past couple of years, freelance journalist Ritwika Mitra has focused much of her work on communities at the “front lines” of the climate emergency in her native India, reporting closely on the human impacts of this accelerating crisis. In particular, she has reported from the Sundarbans, a large coastal region stretching across parts […]
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Writing in the Los Angeles Times on Monday, Bill McKibben and Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. urged President Joe Biden’s administration to block “a massive fossil fuel buildout” being proposed in Louisiana. The argument they make is worth journalists’ attention, for it highlights a central challenge often overlooked in climate coverage. It’s indisputably good news that […]