Reportando sobre el cambio climático 101

The document serves as a '101' guide for journalists to report on climate change, explaining the difference between weather and climate, the primary causes of global warming, and the impacts of extreme weather. It offers specific phrasing to help reporters connect current events to climate change and distinguishes between mitigation and adaptation strategies. Additionally, it provides professional guidance on avoiding greenwashing, handling climate deniers, and centering climate justice in reporting, while emphasizing that climate coverage is based on scientific consensus rather than activism.

• Climate change is primarily driven by the burning of fossil fuels for energy, industry, transport, and construction, while agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) account for approximately one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions.
• Human-induced climate change has already increased Earth's temperature by 1.2 degrees Celsius, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that exceeding a 1.5 degrees C increase will lead to exponentially more severe and potentially irreversible consequences.
• Climate change intensifies various extreme weather events: warmer air increases heavy rainfall and flooding; rising temperatures accelerate evaporation and drought; and warmer ocean waters make hurricanes more destructive and less predictable.
• Climate solutions are categorized into mitigation, which reduces heat-trapping emissions (e.g., switching to wind and solar power), and adaptation, which increases resilience to unavoidable impacts (e.g., building flood barriers).
• Major international and national policy frameworks include the 2015 Paris Agreement, which aims to limit warming to below 2 degrees C (ideally 1.5 degrees C), the European Green Deal targeting a 55% emissions reduction by 2030, and China's goal of carbon neutrality by 2060.
• The US Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 represents the largest climate investment in the country's history, allocating 370 billion dollars in tax credits and other funds over 10 years for clean energy transition.
• Journalists are advised to avoid 'false balance' by not providing platforms to climate deniers, as there is no good-faith argument against climate science, and to remain skeptical of 'greenwashing' by corporations and governments.
• Effective climate reporting should center climate justice by including voices from marginalized groups and indigenous peoples, who are often the most vulnerable despite contributing the least to the crisis.

APA

CCNow (2024). Reportando sobre el cambio climático 101. Covering Climate Now. https://coveringclimatenow.org/resource/reportando-sobre-el-cambio-climatico-101/

Chicago

CCNow. Reportando sobre el cambio climático 101. Covering Climate Now, 2024. https://coveringclimatenow.org/resource/reportando-sobre-el-cambio-climatico-101/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{ccnow2024reportando, author = {CCNow}, title = {{Reportando sobre el cambio climático 101}}, institution = {Covering Climate Now}, year = {2024}, month = jun, url = {https://coveringclimatenow.org/resource/reportando-sobre-el-cambio-climatico-101/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }