In preparation for the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place in the Brazilian Amazon this November, the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas and environmental journalism platform Amazônia Vox have joined forces to offer a trilingual, six-part webinar series on covering the climate crisis.
To date, 1,718 people have participated! Additionally, around twenty speakers –including researchers, content creators, journalists and communicators – will participate in the series.
Although the webinars started July 30, there are still two more sessions left for “Climate coverage and COPs: Tools, sources, and storytelling strategies for journalists.” Join us on Aug. 27 for “How to cover climate and COPs: Understanding key topics and translating ‘climate-speak’” and on Sept. 3 for “Creating digital content at COP30.”
Registration is free and once you join, you’ll gain access to recordings of the previous webinars featuring experts like Daniel Nardin, founder of Amazônia Vox and members of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network; Larissa Noguchi, environmental content specialist and part of the communications team at the Brazilian Fund for Biodiversity (FUNBIO); Ana Carol Amaral, freelance journalist; and Tay Silva, content producer and social media manager at Amazônia de Pé. Most sessions are held in Portuguese, with simultaneous interpretation to Spanish and English. However, the second and fourth sessions are in English with interpretation to Portuguese and Spanish. Free certificates of attendance are available to those who participate in each session or watch all recordings.
To date, the webinars have addressed the causes and impacts of climate change, confronting and curbing climate change misinformation, using databases to investigate the crisis and reporting on climate change with a solutions journalism lens. Below, find details about each webinar session, with news coverage provided by Amazônia Vox.
The first webinar of the six-part series featured Caroline Rocha (Latin American Climate Lawyers Initiative for Mobilizing Action and the Amazonidas Network for the Climate) and Nathália Nascimento (University of São Paulo and Amazonidas Network for the Climate) addressing causes and impacts of climate change and how to cover the crisis in depth.
The second webinar looked at strategies for combatting climate misinformation. Speakers Charlotte Scaddan (United Nations), Cristina Tardáguila (Agência Lupa) and Laura Zommer (Factchequeado) addressed the importance of information integrity. They discussed those who are actively promoting and spreading false information about the climate crisis, and strategies to “innoculate” readers against this disinformation.
The third webinar, with speakers Heron Martins from the Center for Climate Crime Analysis and Ykaruní Nawa from the National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples (Funai) and the Brazilian Articulation of Indigenous Journalists (Abrinjor), addressed accessing and using reliable databases to investigate and report on the climate crisis and also explained the importance of consulting Indigenous peoples as sources and protagonists in that coverage.
This fourth webinar discussed creating rigorous journalistic narratives to inspire action and featured Marcela Martins (Climate Tracker LatAm), Angela Evans (Solutions Journalism Network) and Juliana Strobel (Fundação Avina).
Be sure to sign up today to access all six webinars for free to help better prepare you to cover the climate crisis.
