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...
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...
20 Feb 2025 Newest Media Development explores how digital justice is key to achieving climate justice
Communication justice is vital to addressing the existential threats posed by climate change and environmental inequity in our digital world, Media Development editor Philip Lee writes in “Climate Justice and Digital Inclusion,” the latest issue of WACC’s journal. This means ensuring both that everyone has...
03 Apr 2024 Indigenous citizen communicators in the Philippines ready to champion climate justice
WACC is partnering with the Communication Foundation for Asia (CFA) to equip the Alangan-Mangyan people in the Filipino province of Mindoro as storytellers to bring their voices into the public sphere and protect their unique environment. A long-time WACC partner, CFA was established in 1968...
06 Dec 2022 WACC panel at SBCC Summit to feature communication for climate justice initiatives
A WACC panel on 8 December at the Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Summit in Marrakech, Morocco, will highlight the crucial intersection between communication rights, localization, and climate justice. Organized by UNICEF and communication for development (C4D) agencies, the SBCC Summit on 5–8 December...
14 Nov 2022 Communicating climate justice: A vital part of COP27’s outcomes
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s 2021 report unequivocally linked climate change to human activity and predicted more frequent and more severe natural disasters over the coming years. Given the current trajectory of emissions and lack of meaningful climate action, the world...
30 Jun 2022 No climate justice without communication justice, asserts new WACC-CCR book
“The ‘oxygen of publicity”’ is a vital ingredient of any attempt to tackle the climate emergency and to implement solutions that benefit the whole world,” writes Philip Lee, WACC general secretary and co-editor of Communicating Climate Justice, a new book co-published by WACC’s Centre for...18 May 2022 An Indigenous peoples’ approach to climate justice
Deborah McGregor Climate change has been identified as the “defining issue of our time” by many of the world’s leading experts and the diagnosis of planetary health is dire. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services has concluded that goals for achieving sustainability...