International Communication on Climate Change in the Media

Friday 21 June 2024 

Session 2 – Communicating Climate Change in the Media: what is next?

This session will provide an update on how to advance climate communication in the media. The latest news on climate change from IPCC and on the communication experience from the Copernicus climate service and the international #WarmingStripes campaign will stimulate discussions by media professionals on new approaches and best practices for inspiring communication on the climate crisis.

PROGRAM FOR IN-PERSON AUDIENCE ONLY

Media coverage of climate change and extreme weather around the world
Hosted by Karina BUCKLEY Healy Communications (Ireland)

09:00 – Serious Game “Daybreak: can cooperative games help us solve the climate crisis?”
Presented by Matteo MENAPACE Game designer

Presentation PDF

10:30 – Coffee break and networking

11:00 – Serious Game Daybreak (continued)

11:30 – Weathercasters and journalists Group-Discussions about Climate matters in Weather reports:
– AI in Weather Report (Group leader: Patrick DE BELLEFEUILLE MeteoMedia, Canada)
– Ocean Heat Wave (Group leaders: Gratianne QUADE & Tony JOLIBOIS Mercator Ocean International)
– Climate and Health (Group leaders: Andrew PERSHING & Bernadette WOODS-PLACKY Climate Central, US)
– Heatproofing our cities (Group leader: Alexandre BRECHER Group on Earth Observation, WMO)

12:30 – Synthesis of the Group-Discussions

13:00 – Lunch break

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PROGRAM AVAILABLE IN-PERSON & ON LINE – From 14:00 to 17:00 CEST

Communication on Climate Change: Show your (Warming) Stripes tools

Hosted by Helga VAN LEUR Meteorologist & Ambassador of Climate, Sustainability and Behaviour (The Netherlands)

14:00 – Opening by our special guest, Ed HAWKINS, University of Reading (UK)

14:05 – The latest news about “show your (warming) stripes” 
Ed HAWKINS, University of Reading (UK)

14:30 – Latest news about climate change
Valerie MASSON-DELMOTTE IPSL/LSCE, Université Paris Saclay (France)

15:00 – The Copernicus Climate Change Service: key outputs, resources and interactions with media by Rebecca EMERTON Climate Scientist, ECMWF/Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)

15:30 – Break

16:00 – Round Table “Communication about global change and climate action”
Hosted by Helga VAN LEUR Meteorologist & Ambassador of Climate, Sustainability and Behaviour (The Netherlands)
Speakers: Ada MONZON (Wapa TV, Porto Rico – US) , Evelyne DHÉLIAT (TF1 & LCI, France), Bernadette WOODS-PLACKY (Climate Central, US), Diane LAOUROU (Météo Benin) & Brigitte PERRIN (WMO)

17:00 – Interactive discussions with the audience

17:30 – End

About the Media Workshop

Organized within the International Weather and Climate Forum since 2004, the Media Workshop brings together TV & radio weather presenters from all around the world and representatives from international organisations working in Weather, Climate, Environment and Earth Observation fields. A major meeting of mobilization and sharing of knowledge.

Objectives

Dedicated to the discussion about communication strategies at a high international level, the workshop aims at conducting an in-depth reflection on how to communicate more effectively on Climate Change, towards viewers but also policy-makers. Its main objectives are to:

• Encourage the exchange of “good practices” in terms of climatic communication between weather presenters coming from different countries and continents.
• Encourage the dialogue and create links between weather presenters, climate experts and international organisations..
• Reinforce the weather presenters’ role in the eyes of the public in terms of communication about increasingly intense extreme weather phenomena…