We examine the alarming UN climate report and the state of climate reporting today. Plus, exporting Orban's media model.
Climate change: Do we need a total media overhaul?
Only a small proportion of news consumers will have heard about the report released earlier this month by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC. Not because the report was dull or inconsequential but because the global media is still proving unable - or unwilling - to grapple adequately with the story of our warming planet.
With scientists agreed that the world has just 12 years left to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, coverage of the IPCC report was a flash in the pan - an initial wave of headlines receding as quickly as they emerged.
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