Media meets climate : the global challenge for journalism

This book looks at how the global climate summits organized by the United Nations are mediated across the world. It emerges from the work of the Media Climate network, a cooperative venture started in 2009. Our work is based on the conviction that climate change is the global challenge of the 21st century. Our shared overall question is: what is the role – and responsibility – of journalism in communicating this challenge and the global attempt to solve it? In an earlier volume (Eide, Kunelius & Kumpu [ed.] 2010) we offered a look at how global climate politics from the Copenhagen summit were interpreted in the 18 countries of our network. This book studies global climate journalism from a set of transnational perspectives. In order to start unfolding them, let us first take you to South-Africa, to the last UN Conference of Parties – the Durban COP17.