Dr James Painter on climate change and the media
James Painter
Presented on 23 May 2021
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Web links to resources mentioned in the talk
- IPCC 2018 report: Global warming of 1.5°C
- WMO 2021 report: State of the Global Climate 2020
- ECIU 2021: The Road to Glasgow
- CAST, 2020, Briefing Paper no 2, Public opinion in a time of climate emergency
- Climate Outreach 2021: Britain Talks Climate
About the talk
There is growing concern about the climate and whether governments can rise to the challenge in time. They need to agree radical policies at the COP26 conference in Glasgow this November. So what can we expect and what role should the media play?
Dr Painter works at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) and the Environmental Change Institute of Oxford University. His main research interests are the portrayals of climate change in legacy, digital-borne and social media around the world, and environmental communication in general. He worked at the BBC world service for several years before becoming director of the journalism fellowship programme at RISJ in 2008. He has been visiting professor at the universities of Zurich, Pamplona and Perugia in environmental communication. He has written extensively on climate change and the media and carried out consultancies for various NGOs and UN bodies.