Covering the Planet: Assessing the state of climate and environmental journalism globally

Media are the key source of information about climate change and environment for most people. Media define for audiences what environmental problems are, their causes and consequences, and provide options to act in response. Understanding how journalists all around the world report on climate change and the environment is crucial in the current moment in which attention to environmental crisis is so urgently needed, if we are to confront such crises and galvanize change. However, to date there has been no study on a truly global scale clarifying the challenges and enablers, role conceptions and professional development needs of journalists who cover climate change and the environment. The study reported on here provides a novel,

truly global benchmark of the current state of climate and environmental journalism. This broadly international study is the only contemporary one of this scope and scale, incorporating the voices and insights of journalists in 108 countries. This study finds a varied landscape in which journalists strive to bring to public attention the environmental issues and problems that matter most, as well as solutions that are being enacted in regions around the world.