This guide aims to help journalists to accurately report extreme weather events in the context of a warming planet: how can you best inform your audiences about the effects of climate change on the extreme events we are increasingly experiencing ?
The surest way to speed up recovery after a disaster is to build resilience. Commemorating the anniversaries of earthquakes allows to remember how people were impacted and helps keeping resilience on national and personal agendas.
New research has studied reporting patterns in local media coverage of wildfires in Colorado. It concluded that commemorative coverage of wildfires in Colorado was more analytical and policy problem-oriented than initially expected. However, wildfires' first anniversaries were the strongest periods for policy conversations in the media, which would then decrease.
In times of disaster, the media's responsibility in terms of reporting includes a fair portrayal of victims and making their voices heard. The media can achieve this by portraying the most affected populations, showing how vulnerability is not natural as opposed to hazards, highlighting response efforts by civil society, and focusing more on long-term recovery.
This Tool describes the potential functions of media during the whole flood management cycle, from prevention and awareness-raising, to emergency warnings, to relief measures and restoration. After defining the basic concepts of communication and risk
World Meteorological Organization
Global Water Partnership
Associated Programme on Flood Management
Through concrete examples of good practice, this booklet offers suggestions for the improvement of communication between relevant authorities and the media, which may result in a higher quality of information disseminated to citizens. Having analysed the
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe
This report summarises the research underpinning the Climate Visuals website and presents the key findings so that practitioners can take an evidence-based approach to visual communication. The imagery used to communicate climate change can and should be
The way we talk about climate change affects the way people think about it. For scientific evidence to shape people’s actions, it is crucial that science be communicated to the public effectively. Social scientists have been increasingly studying the science of science communication, to better understand what does and does not work for discussing different scientific topics.
