IIED has today published a four-page briefing paper for journalists about the COP15 climate change summit that will take place in Copenhagen in December.
This briefing covers COP15, its build up and its aftermath. It explains key processes, major actions to be agreed and possible outcomes.
It has been reviewed by three international lawyers who sit on national delegations during UN negotiations.
It covers things like:
• The future of the Kyoto Protocol – do some countries really want to kill… Continue
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There is at most a weak link between population growth and rising emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change, says a study published today (28 September) in the journal Environment and Urbanization.
The paper contradicts growing calls for population growth to be limited as part of the fight against climate change and shows that the real issue is not the growth in the number of people but the growth in the number of consumers and their consumption levels.
Dr David Satterthwaite… Continue
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A new coalition of international business, trade unions, research and environmental organisations is calling on the G20 nations to follow through on their pledges to accelerate the transition to a green economy and secure a visionary global deal on climate change, in an open letter published today.
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Scientists led by a former co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have warned that the UN negotiations aimed at tackling climate change are based on substantial underestimates of what it will cost to adapt to its impacts.
The real costs of adaptation are likely to be 2-3 times greater than estimates made by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), say Professor Martin Parry and colleagues in a new report published by the International Institute for Environment… Continue
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Malawi is failing to meet the Millennium Development Goal for water and sanitation in its urban areas and misleading official statistics are hiding the scale of the problem, according to research published today by the International Institute for Environment and Development and the Scottish Government.
The news comes ahead of the annual World Water Week conference in Stockholm, Sweden (16-22 August) whose theme is Accessing Water for the Common Good.
The UN Millennium Development Goals were se… Continue
Added by MikeShanahan on August 13, 2009 at 2:50pm —
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Dear all
Here are some free resources for journalists covering climate change. To download each pdf file just click on the title.
Climate change: Top sources for journalists
This document summarises key sources for journalists covering climate change. It covers scientific, policy and media sources and was produced for journalists attending the ‘Reporting about Climate Change’ workshop on 29 June 2009 at the Royal Geo… Continue
Added by MikeShanahan on August 12, 2009 at 3:12pm —
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Journalists from India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh can now apply for a two-part environmental journalism course focusing on coastal management in the region and its relation to the global environmental situation. The first course will be held in Tuticorin from October 26 to November 6, and the second from April 19 to 24, 2010.
For more information visit the FOJO website. Continue
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The Climate Change Media Partnership has chosen the winners of its 2009 Fellowship programme. The 40 outstanding journalists from 26 developing nations faced stiff competition from a field of 600 applicants.
The international selection panel of CCMP staff from Internews, Panos and the International Institute for Environment and Development, engaged advice from media editors and regional associations of journalists.
Demand for the media support offered by the CCMP Programme has grown sharply si… Continue
Added by MikeShanahan on July 22, 2009 at 11:14am —
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Internews' Earth Journalism Awards encourage high-quality local climate change coverage leading up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, December 7-18 2009 in Copenhagen (COP15).
A total of 14 awards are now open for entry
Visit the website for details of how to apply to win a trip to cover the COP15 summit. Continue
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This video profiles the work of the Climate Change Media Partnership, which was set up by Panos, Internews and the International Institute for Environment and Development to provides annual training fellowships for journalists from the South. Continue
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East Africa risks losing a vital asset by failing to see the true value that pastoralists bring to national economies and efforts to confront climate change, says the International Institute for Environment and Development in a new briefing paper.
The paper will be published on 17 June, which the United Nations had declared as World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.
It shows how pastoralism provides many hidden benefits that are not included in national statistics. This absence of tru… Continue
Added by MikeShanahan on June 18, 2009 at 9:48am —
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The largest group of developing-world journalists returns to boost media coverage of climate change in a critical year of negotiations.
The Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) has today opened its 2009 Fellowship Programme. It encourages all journalists in developing countries who report on climate change to apply.
This programme comes during a critical year of negotiations that ends in December with the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen where a new global deal could be struck.
F… Continue
Added by MikeShanahan on May 15, 2009 at 5:09pm —
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GermanWatch is co-organising a day long conference on climate change and development during the Bonn negotiating session of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. And a film festival.
More information here - www.tinyurl.com/owava5Continue
Added by MikeShanahan on May 14, 2009 at 5:54pm —
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Come and join hundreds of journalists, scientists and many others at the World Conference of Science Journalists (London - 29 June to 2 July) to hear the latest on the role of the media in communicating issues such as climate change to the masses.
A list of climate-change topics and speakers follows… Details of the conference and other sessions are here - http://www.wcsj2009.org/1. CLIMATE CHANGE: GEARING UP FOR COPENHAGEN (1 JULY)Producer… Continue
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The International Institute for Environment and Development has published a two short papers that describe how to protect forests, improve people’s lifes and livelihoods and help to address climate change.
The papers show ways to implement REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation), which is one of the tools likely to feature in the new global plan to tackle climate change that governments are negotiating this year.
The author, Virgilio Viana knows first-hand how to do this, h… Continue
Added by MikeShanahan on March 26, 2009 at 3:25pm —
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Greenhouse gas emissions of city dwellers are often far smaller than the national averages, says a study in the April issue of Environment and Urbanization by David Dodman of the International Institute for Environment and Development.
Dodman argues that the tendency to identify cities as major culprits in causing climate change diverts attention from the main driver of greenhouse gas emissions, namely unsustainable consumption, especially in the world’s more affluent countries.
The paper exam… Continue
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IIED has new YouTube clips of Climate Change Media Partnership journalists from Vietnam, Bangladesh, Brazil & Peru who we brought to the UN climate change summit in Poznan in December 2008.
Send me an email if you want to join the mailing list to learn about the 2009 Climate Change Media Partnership fellowships.
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Mike Continue
Added by MikeShanahan on March 11, 2009 at 11:05am —
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Forests play a key role in climate. In this video interview by the International Institute for Environment and Development, Virgílio Viana explains why forests matter, how best to protect them, and what world leaders need to do to ensure we can use forests sustainably in the fight against climate change.
Virgílio Viana is one of the world's leading experts on forestry, environment and sustainable development. He served as Secretary of State for Environment and Sustainable Dev… Continue
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