Guardian
•80% Informative
Climate Now is a global collaboration of 500-plus news outlets to help journalists and newsrooms center climate crisis in their coverage of elections in 2024.
Scientists warn that oil, gas and coal burning must be rapidly phased out if we are to preserve a livable planet.
But the political press is covering the 2024 campaign as if climate isn’t on the ballot.
Climate Elections project kicks off with a weekly newsletter aimed at helping reporters incorporate climate into their campaign coverage.
80% of Americans polled say they “want to learn more” about the climate crisis, according to Anthony Leiserowitz, the director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.
The newsletter will propose story ideas, spotlight examples of elections coverage that makes the climate connection.
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