Hurricanes, floods and wildfires are becoming more frequent. The extreme forecasts that were predicted a few decades ago are starting to happen, and climate change is an existential crisis for us all. So how do you tell the biggest story in the world?
Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber speak to award-winning environmental journalist and Financial Times associate editor, Pilita Clark. Pilita discusses COP29, the UN’s annual meeting on climate change, which is currently taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Though 2024 is set to be the hottest year on record, discussion around climate has slipped into culture war territory, with ideology often trumping facts. How do journalists punch through and capture the public’s imagination? When the truth is hard to swallow, should they try and find the positive spin, or tell the grim reality?
To listen to the Prospect podcast on “COP29 and climate culture wars”, with Isabel Hilton and Sam Alvis, click here.
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