Main Topics

Topics include (work in progress):

Climate change - the road ahead

Ways towards a low carbon economy

Costs and consequences of adaption to global warming and the impact on North-South relations

Understanding science and negotiations under post-Copenhagen conditions

The media´s role in scientific scenarios and infrastructure change

Raising awareness and galvanizing action in audiences

The role of the media in preserving the basis of people´s existance

Taking stock of climate change in the news worldwide

The special responsibility of public service broadcasters

Communicating climate information: the media, PR and education

Tense relations between journalists and scientists

Objectivity at stake? Journalism and "green" companies

From science journalism to mainstream media

Journalists as eyewitnesses of climate change

Responding to global warming skepticism

Gender and climate change

Localizing global issues

Coverage vs. advocacy. Does the media guide or reflect

Climate-induced migration

The information gap in the South and the role of the (new) media

Desertec - fata morgana or the future of clean energy?

How to make movies on climate change

"Clean coal" - last hope or green marketing?

Climate change and harvests - can we still feed the world?

Climate change in entertainment programmes

Darfur - the first climate war?

Consumer´s lifestyle and climate change

Journalists at risk covering environmental issues

Journalists as eyewitnesses of climate change

Climate change as a variable of international Policy

Geo-engineering against climate change

Directing financial flows into the energy infrastructure