“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 […]
Read More… from Whatever Happens At COP27, the Climate Story Gets Bigger
Climate change is a global problem that requires cooperation between all nations. That’s why today more than 30 newspapers and media organisations in more than 20 countries have taken a common view about what needs to be done. Time is running out. Rather than getting out of fossil fuels and into clean energy, many wealthy […]
Read More… from The Guardian View on COP27: This Is No Time for Apathy or Complacency
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 Keisuke Katori, a science reporter for the Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan’s largest newspapers. Previously, Katori served as foreign correspondent with the paper, based in Washington, […]
“We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday as the COP27 climate conference began in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. How firmly humanity’s foot stays on that accelerator will depend partly on the outcome of midterm elections in the United States. Votes were […]
Read More… from US Midterms and COP27 Offer Many New Storylines
In September, at an event hosted by the New York Times, Farhana Yamin, a longtime climate negotiator and former adviser to the Marshall Islands, had a bone to pick with John Kerry, the US climate envoy. “What will you be doing to step up and actually put money into loss and damage?” Yamin asked, referring to […]
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