At Festival Compartilhe, WACC partners from four Latin American countries described how climate disinformation lands in their territories – and launched a new WACC publication advocating for community communication to be funded as climate infrastructure.Climate disinformation is no longer mainly about denying that the climate...
We need a new approach to climate communication – a bottom-up perspective that understands communication as a right. ...
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...
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...
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...
WACC General Secretary Philip Lee reports from the latest meeting of the CDAC Network, a global alliance of organisations working to ensure people can access safe, trustworthy information and communicate during crises. “Information in Crisis” was in focus at the recent public forum of the CDAC...
Over the past few years, climate change has become a lighting rod issue in many countries of the Global North. Populist right-wing figures like Donald Trump (USA), Nigel Farage (UK), Alice Weidel (Germany) and Santiago Abascal (Spain) have either denied climate change, sought to undermine its...
When I started to think about World Press Freedom Day (3 May) this year, my mind – and fingers on the keyboard – went first to the existential crisis facing the traditional media industry, battered as it is from so many economic, political, technological, and...
Faith communities can use practical tools, strategies, and global advocacy to counter — and prevent — the spread of false information, the webinar “Religion and Disinformation: How to be a trusted source” yesterday illustrated with case studies and approaches from the Africa region.Organized by WACC...