Una Guía para Reportar Sobre las Soluciones Climáticas

The document argues that climate coverage must move beyond problem-focused reporting to include evidence-based solutions. It categorizes climate solutions into policy, economy, technology, civil society, and culture, urging journalists to prioritize the political and economic battles over purely technological fixes. The guide emphasizes the urgency for marginalized communities and provides specific examples, such as the US Inflation Reduction Act, to illustrate how to analyze the effectiveness and limitations of climate policies.

• Effective climate reporting must balance the description of the crisis with evidence-based solutions, avoiding the temptation to focus on technology while ignoring the political and economic factors that determine if those technologies are implemented.
• To prevent catastrophic temperature increases, human-caused greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced by approximately 50% in the next decade and reach "net zero" by 2050, requiring a radical shift away from oil, gas, and coal, and a reversal of deforestation.
• Climate solutions are most urgent for populations disproportionately affected by the crisis, including poor people, people of color, indigenous peoples, women, children, the elderly, and people with disabilities, who often have the fewest financial resources to cope despite contributing the least to pollution.
• The US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) provides approximately $369 billion in incentives for clean energy, creating over 110,000 clean energy jobs and stimulating the construction of solar panel and battery factories, though it is criticized for not limiting the use of fossil fuels.
• Climate technologies are divided into mitigation, which reduces greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and oceans (including carbon dioxide removal or CDR), and adaptation, which increases resilience to unavoidable impacts, such as undergrounding power lines or building seawalls.
• The guide identifies five key categories for solutions-oriented climate reporting: policy and government, economy and business, technologies and practices, civil society, and culture.

APA

CCNow (2023). Una Guía para Reportar Sobre las Soluciones Climáticas. Covering Climate Now. https://coveringclimatenow.org/resource/hoja-de-referencia-guia-de-informes-de-soluciones-climaticas/

Chicago

CCNow. Una Guía para Reportar Sobre las Soluciones Climáticas. Covering Climate Now, 2023. https://coveringclimatenow.org/resource/hoja-de-referencia-guia-de-informes-de-soluciones-climaticas/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{ccnow2023una, author = {CCNow}, title = {{Una Guía para Reportar Sobre las Soluciones Climáticas}}, institution = {Covering Climate Now}, year = {2023}, month = jun, url = {https://coveringclimatenow.org/resource/hoja-de-referencia-guia-de-informes-de-soluciones-climaticas/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }