GLOBAL WARMING MEDIA STRATEGIES DISCUSSED AT CLIMATE CHANGE REPORTING WORKSHOP IN BALI
December 15th 2007 06:00
The media shouldn’t give time and space to global warming deniers, a television news workshop on climate change reporting in Bali, was told by Andreas Fischlin, a Swiss scientist at the Institute for Terrestrial Ecology in Zurich.
Fischlin was speaking at the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union Climate Change Workshop held in Bali, Indonesia from December 10-11, which brought together 20 broadcasters from 14 countries in the Asia-Pacific.
The two-day workshop was held on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Change Conference that was held in Bali through to December 14.
Silvia Llosa, program officer for the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction also spoke at the conference and said journalists need to understand climate change and the risks and start communicating it to other.
"Journalists need to inform and educate their audiences about the threats posed by climate change related risks and what they can do to avoid being a victim of a disaster from a climate change related risk," she said.
"When there is a disaster, it provides journalists an opportunity to jump in and say perhaps this can be avoided. Journalists should investigate the causes and ask themselves if a government is doing enough to avoid such disasters."
- From MediaBlab
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