Covering Climate Now has launched The Climate Elections project, a nonpartisan effort to help journalists and newsrooms give climate change, and its solutions, the coverage it deserves in 2024 elections coverage.
The climate stakes at this perilous moment are undeniably high. “Countries around the world face critical questions about leaving fossil fuels behind, adapting our transportation infrastructure, housing stock, and farming practices to increasingly harsh weather, and protecting the people most at risk,” write CCNow’s co-founders and veteran journalists Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope.
Addressing climate change in time requires a worldwide effort, at every level of government and society, but contrary to attempts to politicize the issue, climate change is not partisan — and neither is reporting on it.
To help journalists ramp up their climate reporting, CCNow is offering a few new tools:
- Reporting Guide: “Reporting on Climate and the US 2024 Elections,” a quick guide with a climate overview, questions to ask candidates, reporting ideas, and more.
- Weekly Newsletter Climate on the Ballot: Every Monday morning we offer up a fresh climate-related topic (in English and in Spanish), with story ideas and examples of outstanding coverage for integrating climate into local, state, and national reporting. Sign up to receive Climate on the Ballot in your inbox.
- Climate on the Ballot event series: Over three days, we dug into the challenges and opportunities of elevating the climate angle in journalists’ political storytelling. Webinars with top climate and political journalists explored how to help climate news break through in a busy election year, covering climate politics at the local level, and lessons from other recent, climate-critical elections around the world. Our headline event was an interview with White House senior climate advisor John Podesta.
- Climate & Elections Calendar: Features over 100 entries, including key election dates, climate conferences, international summits, and more.
- Election Events: Sign up for Climate Beat to receive updates about upcoming webinars. See archived election webinars including “Beyond the Stump Speech” and “The Climate Story in 2024.” See the full video playlist.
Our Sharing Library helps CCNow partners amplify their outlets’ stories, by making them available to other newsrooms for republication, and helps partners expand their own coverage by running stories available for syndication.
And we want to hear from journalists and newsrooms. It’s our responsibility in an election year to inform voters about what’s at stake, and what the candidates plan to do about it. How can CCNow help you and your colleagues deliver on that responsibility?
