07 Sep 2026 From the bottom up: Rethinking climate communication
We need a new approach to climate communication – a bottom-up perspective that understands communication as a right. ...
24 Aug 2026 Data centres, rare earth minerals, and complacency
The impact of data centres on the environment concerns everyone. Data centres consume massive amounts of electricity – often placing considerable strain on local power grids. Data centres generate significant heat and electronic waste, and millions of gallons of water are needed daily to cool...
17 Aug 2026 Truth Under Fire: WACC Annual Report 2025 traces action to advance communication rights
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WACC’s latest Annual Report brings to life our collective work to enable people to be seen and heard at a time when too many are made invisible and silenced....
10 Aug 2026 El Niño and the fight over what it means
With El Niño sharpening climate disinformation, the time is now to invest in community media – the key channels informing people and building trust....
27 Feb 2026 New climate justice project to put local voices in Amazon region at center of climate policy
A new WACC-supported initiative aims to generate widespread awareness of the environmental protection and climate justice efforts of local communities across the Brazilian Amazon, placing their solutions, voices, and concerns at the very heart of policy responses. “Local Voices for Climate Justice in Brazil” is being...
17 Feb 2026 New Media Development examines common ground between communication justice and climate justice
While the lens of climate justice has gained a foothold in climate policy spaces, “the world also needs to pay attention to how communication and information deficits undermine the struggle for climate justice,” writes Media Development editor Philip Lee. The response to climate change, “the most...
13 Jan 2026 Notes on COP30: Communication is fundamental to climate justice
For Nicolle Mendoza, a WACC-supported community reporter at the most recent UN climate summit, the conviction that communication is fundamental to climate justice marked each day at COP30. Leer en español Being part of the community media delegation to cover COP30 was an eye-opening and deeply enriching...
06 Jan 2026 Notes on COP30: Time to pass the microphone
Steven Santiesteban, a WACC-supported community reporter at the most recent UN climate summit, realized during COP30 that the climate crisis is also a crisis of listening, a crisis that demands a paradigm shift in whose voices and knowledge are amplified. Leer en español The air in Belém...
26 Dec 2025 Notes on COP30: A community communication experience on the global stage
Yorman Galviz, a WACC-supported community reporter at this year’s UN climate summit, reflects on how COP30 became a space to corroborate the importance of local and community media in democratizing information and giving space to the diversity of actors working for climate justice. Leer en español The...
12 Dec 2025 A grassroots approach to climate information integrity: Empowering local voices as key actors post-COP 30
Between 10 and 21 November, a delegation of 15 WACC-supported community media reporters and activists from across the Amazon region were in Belem, Brazil, to cover the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 30). WACC program director Lorenzo Vargas explains why...