Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. That headline, from a Reuters story published this week quoting COP26 president Alok Sharma, is one of the great climate headlines of 2021. And it couldn’t be more relevant amid the deadly floods and wildfires ravaging Germany, China, Nigeria, and the American West. Sharma, the British […]
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The wildfires forecast this summer in the American West could be the biggest climate story of 2021 (until November’s Glasgow summit). And the unprecedented heat waves now scorching much of the American West are another painful sign that the climate emergency is here. Good journalism will not only inform people how to stay safe, but […]
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Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. It’s a trope in political journalism to wonder whether high profile climate deniers are “in on the joke.” That is, do they realize privately that the science is unequivocal but cynically choose to claim the opposite in public? Or are they truly, hopelessly uninformed? In a video obtained this […]
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Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. You almost don’t need to ask anymore. Of course climate change is partly to blame for the record heat now scorching the Pacific Northwest. Of course climate change may have contributed to the horrific building collapse in Surfside, Florida. And of course ExxonMobil is still doing all it can […]
Last week’s G7 summit brought important climate progress, though not on the moral duty and scientific imperative of wealthy countries providing abundant climate aid for developing countries. Leaders of the US, the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan, pledged to collectively halve their own countries’ greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and to reach net zero […]
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Leaders of the seven richest countries per capita are meeting at the Group of 7’s annual summit this weekend—and climate justice is explicitly on the agenda. That has never happened. How the G7 leaders respond to the climate justice challenge this weekend will shape the chances of success at November’s global climate summit that United […]
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This Friday, June 11, the Group of 7 nations begins its annual summit, and climate justice is explicitly on the agenda. This is unprecedented, and though other top-line issues will be discussed during the summit—global vaccine distribution and a proposed worldwide minimum corporate tax rate—the climate emergency must be central to journalists’ coverage, in particular […]
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This Friday, June 11, the Group of 7 nations begins its annual summit, and climate justice is explicitly on the agenda. This is unprecedented, and though other top-line issues will be discussed during the summit—global vaccine distribution and a proposed worldwide minimum corporate tax rate—the climate emergency must be central to journalists’ coverage. To help […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter in your inbox. TV newsman Bill Moyers likes to tell the story of how Edward R. Murrow, the pre-eminent US broadcast journalist of his time, insisted on covering what became Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939. Murrow’s bosses at CBS News had other priorities; they ordered Murrow’s reporters […]