14 Jan 2016 Communications essential to climate change action
People of faith have much to contribute to the discourse on climate change, and communications is an essential part of that mission.
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01 Apr 2015 Communication challenges in the aftermath of Cyclone Pam
In the aftermath of Cyclone Pam’s devastation of the Pacific island of Vanuatu, grassroots communication groups are broadcasting news and serving as contact points for those in urgent need.
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25 Sep 2014 Indigenous voices exercise communication rights
Indigenous peoples are being heard in New York during a week of activism on climate change, native people’s rights and indigenous philanthropy.
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19 Sep 2014 Faith groups demand action on climate change
Faith groups are playing a significant role in communicating the need for action on climate change in the run-up to a massive planned demonstration, interfaith conference and U.N. meeting in New York.
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16 Apr 2014 Media and climate change: A case to answer
As the recent IPCC report confirms, how the science of climate change is communicated is a significant factor in public understanding of the issues involved and may well contribute to inertia around policies to tackle it. Those responsible for content in mass media,...
17 Jan 2014 Calentamiento global: Nuevos enfoques periodísticos
En el tráfago de las tareas cotidianas que realizamos los comunicadores, ha sido muy atinado que el CIESPAL nos haya convocado para participar en su 5to. Encuentro Iberoamericano de Periodismo Científico y que durante su desarrollo nos detuviéramos a reflexionar sobre un tema que ha adquirido importante relevancia en...
17 Jan 2014 Rescuing reporting in the global South
Media coverage of climate change lags behind in the countries where it matters most. Focused journalism training and better coverage by local media are part of the solution....
17 Jan 2014 Environmental journalism viewed from Canada
Rolling the calendar back a year to early 2008 and surveying the Canadian media from that vantage point, one could be forgiven a cautious sense of optimism that the pervasive neglect of environmental issues and concerns was finally coming to an end....
17 Jan 2014 Media, communication and environmental change
Much, maybe most, of what we learn and know about ‘the environment’, we know from the media, broadly defined. Indeed, this applies not only to our beliefs and knowledge about those aspects of the environment, which are regarded as problems or issues for public and political concern, but...
17 Jan 2014 Computers and ecology
MIT computer scientist Nicholas Negroponte enthused in his book Being Digital in 1995 that the digital landscape was giving rise to a new generation which was free of old prejudices and ignored the limitations of geographical proximity as the only basis for friendship, collaboration, games and neighbourliness. He...