Climate technology reporting: Without context and perspective we mislead our audiences
Magnus Bredsdorff | Reuters Institute
Carbon capture and storage (CCS), green hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) promising green flights, and biochar produced with pyrolysis. These are some of the new climate technologies that most governments rely heavily on to meet their climate targets.
New climate technologies comprise a large share of news media’s climate coverage, but newsrooms generally fail to relate the potential of new climate tech to the urgency of the climate crisis.
This is one of the conclusions of my fellowship project, which polled 50 climate journalists from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. I also conducted long-form interviews with six experienced Scandinavian climate journalists and three scholars specialising in climate journalism.
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