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CCNow Journalism Awards Finalists and ‘Climate & Democracy’ Coverage

Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter It’s been a packed Earth Week. First off, we’re thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2022 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards! This year CCNow received more than 900 award submissions from 65 countries for 18 categories, including long and short-form print and video coverage, audio, photography, commentary, […]

This Earth Day, Climate and Democracy Are Both in Trouble

Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Since Paris, “the world seemed to have swerved sharply away from democracy and toward autocracy — and in the process dramatically limited our ability to fight the climate crisis.” So wrote Bill McKibben in a Guardian article on Monday launching Covering Climate Now’s latest joint reporting project, “Climate […]

“Game Over” for Fossil Fuels?

“It’s now or never” if we want to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, said scientist Jim Skea, a co-chair of the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report released Monday. And how exactly do we keep the 1.5C target in reach? In an unprecedented development, […]

You Can’t Isolate the Food Crisis From the Climate Crisis

Since Russia’s war in Ukraine began, there’s been much talk about the pursuant energy crisis and the world’s need for a clean-energy transition. Though the implications for climate change are significant, journalists have only sometimes spelled them out in their coverage. Now, there is another crisis emerging as a knock-on effect of the war: the […]

Climate Change Is Everywhere in the Story of a Mounting Global Food Crisis

Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Since Russia’s war in Ukraine began, there’s been much talk about the pursuant energy crisis and the world’s need for a clean-energy transition. Though the implications for climate change are significant, journalists have only sometimes spelled them out in their coverage. Now, there is another crisis emerging as […]

Tomorrow’s Climate Strikes Deserve Front-Page Coverage

Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. Fridays For Future, the youth climate movement ignited three years ago by Greta Thunberg’s school strikes, is holding another day of global protest tomorrow, March 25. For journalists, protests of this scale are a reminder that activists are newsmakers just like politicians and CEOs, and news coverage should […]

Journalists Grapple with the American Energy Crisis

Last week, on the prank and frat-culture podcast Full Send special guest Donald Trump was asked about the war in Ukraine and how he predicts it will unfold. “Well, and I said this a long time ago,” the former president began. “If this happens, we are playing right into their hands. Green energy. The windmills […]

Parroting Industry Talking Points Isn’t Journalism

Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. CCNow’s Andrew McCormick has a column out today in CJR, excerpted below that offers important guidance for journalists covering the ongoing energy crisis. Last week, on the prank and frat-culture podcast Full Send special guest Donald Trump was asked about the war in Ukraine and how he predicts […]

War, Oil, and Reporting the New Climate Story

Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Russia’s war on Ukraine is an epoch-changing event that poses sweeping challenges, and opportunities, for climate reporting. Suddenly the only existential threat that matches climate change, nuclear war, has reemerged as a clear and present danger. A global recession threatens as fossil fuels, still the lifeblood of the world […]