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Media Coverage of Climate Change Impacts, Policies and Politics Pallab Ghosh

Media Coverage of Climate Change Impacts, Policies and Politics Pallab Ghosh President, World Federation of Science Journalists Science Correspondent, BBC News 2009 AAAS Annual meeting February 13. WFSJ’s Goals. Improve the quality of science reporting

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Media Coverage of Climate Change Impacts, Policies and Politics Pallab Ghosh

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  1. Media Coverage of Climate Change Impacts, Policies and Politics Pallab Ghosh President, World Federation of Science JournalistsScience Correspondent, BBC News 2009 AAAS Annual meeting February 13

  2. WFSJ’s Goals • Improve the quality of science reporting • Training and networking for science journalists

  3. SjCOOP = Peer-to-Peer Mentoring

  4. Christophe Mvondo, Newspaper La Nouvelle Expression, Cameroon • Become responsible of the “environment” pages (2 pages every 2 weeks) of his newspaper La Nouvelle Expression • In 2007 and 2008, Christophe published several articles on lake Nyos. • What followed was a big political debate. It now looks like the government has acted; they confirmed in 2007 that they will spend the money in November 2008.

  5. Hellish Vision • Melting Ice Doomsday • Will Kill Billions • Most Life Would be Exterminated

  6. The Great Climate Conspiracy There is actually very little scientific agreement about whether any of these extreme weather events can be blamed on anything other than normal and natural variation

  7. Amundsen 15 science journalists from around the world won a trip to report on climat change onboard the Amundsen, a Canadian Icebreaker

  8. Tatiana Pichugina "Before the trip I privately thought "climate change" concerns were a kind of imperialist conspiracy to use science to promote the world market, but the Amundsen changed my attitude …

  9. WCSJ2009 – key facts • 30th June – 2nd July 2009 • Central Hall, Westminster • www.wcsj2009.org

  10. WCSJ2009 – goals • More than 600 journalists / communicators • Gearing Up for Copenhagen: Sir David King • Science, Policy and Politics: Cris Russell • Raise quality & impact of Climate Coverage

  11. Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website

  12. She is why I am here… Pallab Ghosh pghosh@wfsj.org

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