Donald Trump’s impending return to the White House has not changed the laws of physics. Global temperatures, already the hottest in at least 120,000 years, will keep rising, driving more and deadlier heat waves, storms, droughts and other extreme weather. Which means the climate story is only going to get bigger.
If you can afford it on this Giving Tuesday, Covering Climate Now hopes you’ll make a contribution to our work helping journalists everywhere tell the climate story so it makes an impact.
With more than 500 partner news outlets, CCNow is the world’s leading collaboration for climate journalism. Organized by journalists, for journalists, CCNow changes the climate conversation in newsrooms and beyond. We help our colleagues produce engaging news coverage that meets audiences where they are, explains how climate change is affecting the world around them, and emphasizes that the crisis can be solved.
We’ve trained hundreds of journalists — at news outlets big and small, commercial and nonprofit, in the US and globally — to “make the climate connection” when reporting on extreme weather, elections, the economy, even sports and the arts. We host annual Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards to establish standards of excellence that journalists and newsrooms can emulate, raising the standard of climate reporting worldwide. We provide cutting-edge analysis, story ideas, and more in our Climate Beat newsletter, which reaches more than 10,000 people a week. And much more.
To reach the widest possible collection of journalists, CCNow does not charge for our services. If you can help us with a financial contribution of any size, we will be immensely grateful. Meanwhile, please also consider supporting one or more of your favorite news outlets. As our colleague Bill McKibben pointed out during a reporting project about climate and democracy CCNow organized, making climate progress requires a vigorous democracy and an independent press. Engaging the mass public is essential as well, of course, and that cannot happen without the news media doing its part.
Thanks for considering, and we look forward to hearing from you.
Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope
Co-founders
Covering Climate Now
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