Reporting on Climate Change: An Australian Perspective

Debrett, Mary

doi:10.18848/1836-6236/cgp/v02i02/51249

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“…According to Völker and Scholl [106], scientific reports are the best possible representation or description of reality; if the media's description of reality deviates too far from scientific description, it may be considered deficient, since any false, inaccurate or biased information will negatively influence people's decisions, with possibly far-reaching consequences. According to Debrett [107] (p. 149) "reporting on the topic of climate change and the findings of climate scientists raises specific difficulties for journalists, because of the disjuncture between scientific precision, and its language of 'probability and percentages, significant difference and estimation of error' and the media's hunger for an easily communicable truth". Young and Dugas's [108] review of the literature highlighted the difficulties of environmental news journalism; a limited number of journalists have formal education in natural sciences and even those who are so educated face the constant challenge of having to wade through masses of complex information that encompasses many disciplines and contexts.…”

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“…Broadcast meteorologists face the challenge of inadequate time to prepare, insufficient high-quality content on which to base reports, and difficulty with accessing climate scientists for advisory services and interviews [92]. As expressed by Debrett [107], delivering climate change information is a problem for the media, as climate change information has a tendency to confound and demoralize readers, whom newspapers prefer not to alienate, but to retain. Furthermore, the scientific research cycle takes years and requires constant review and validation; this usually constrains the media as it has a cycle of, at most, 24 h; as a result, it shows a lack of aggression and willpower in reporting on environmental matters [83].…”

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Information Sources and Constraints to Climate Change Adaptation amongst Smallholder Farmers in Amathole District Municipality, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

2020

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With current global climate change conditions, the urgency to provide agricultural knowledge on adaptation has risen. The dearth of climate change information is one amongst many agricultural production challenges faced by the majority of rural farming communities. This study aimed to identify smallholder farmers’ sources of climate change information and constraints to their coping and adaptation. Descriptive statistical tools, mean scores and the ‘problem confrontation index’ (PCI) were used to assess and describe the study’s findings. Analysis revealed that public extension services play a minute role in rural farmers’ climate change knowledge; they get their information elsewhere. The most critical constraint to climate change coping and adaptation in the study area was lack of access to agricultural extension services.

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Information Sources and Constraints to Climate Change Adaptation amongst Smallholder Farmers in Amathole District Municipality, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

2020

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“…This, in turn, has helped investors and capital markets around the globe to take increased action to support the mitigation of and adaptations to climate change risk through providing climate-related information disclosed in financial statements, thereby improving market resilience and achieving sustainable development with a minimized amount of carbon emissions. Towards such efforts, recent studies have documented climate reporting activities and issues in specific countries such as the United States (Bohr, 2020), the United Kingdom (Ruiu, 2021;Tang & Demeritt, 2018;Taylor & Nathan, 2002), Papua New Guinea (Pascoe et al, 2019), Australia (Debrett, 2011;Foxwell-Norton, 2017;Shea et al, 2020), Sweden (Berglez & Lidskog, 2019;Kleinschmit & Sjöstedt, 2014), Germany (Kaiser & Rhomberg, 2016), Greece (Tsalis & Nikolaou, 2017), China (Yang & Farley, 2016) and other emerging countries (Jeswani et al, 2008;Solomon et al, 2011). These studies indicate the importance and necessity of enhanced climate change risk reporting in mainstream financial statements and these studies ask for greater involvement of international accounting standard setting bodies (Deloitte, 2021;International Federation of Accountants [IFAC], 2021; PricewaterhouseCoopers [PWC], 2021).…”

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Climate risk disclosures and global sustainability initiatives: A conceptual analysis and agenda for future research

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Ullah

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Climate change impacts, risks and sustainability disclosures have attracted increasing attention from scholars in various streams of the economics and finance literature towards achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Within the stream of climate finance, the global initiatives for corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environment, social and governance (ESG) practices have had important roles in leveraging firms to become more actively involved in environment‐related disclosure, in which climate risk reporting is central to evaluating whether and to what extent a firm and its operations are friendly to the environment. Along with the growth of the UN Principles for Responsible Investing in 2005, one of the most recent global initiatives that has been formed is the Taskforce on Climate‐Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), which has considered the climate‐related financial disclosure recommendations of G20 finance ministers. Given that TCFD recommendations have recently been released for a broad domain of players (such as banks, investors, insurers and governments) in various countries (e.g., New Zealand, the United States and Japan), we surveyed the most recent studies on the TCFD by using a conceptual framework for climate‐related disclosures focusing on studies published worldwide. On the basis of a thorough review, we highlight the essential functions of financial markets and also provide the critical implications for different market players ranging from providers to supporters of the TCFD. Our study offers a timely conceptual review of the TCFD which is critical for stimulating sustainable investments, climate finance and enhanced corporate reporting.

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“…The media need revenue to survive and environment stories rarely bring in revenue. This is understandable, given today's declining newsroom budget (Debrett, 2011). The editor of Nigeria's Guardian Newspaper, Martin Oloja, puts it this way:…”

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Rethinking Conservation Communication in Rural Africa: A Case for Indigenous African Communication Systems (Iacs)

Meribe¹

2014

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Given the critical role the media play in public education and enlightenment in modern societies, it is likely there will be the temptation to depend on them for the success of conservation communication in rural areas. But a major problem with this approach is that the gospel of conservation may not resonate with majority of rural dwellers, especially in the African continent where a lot of rural people appear to depend on the forest for food and livelihood (Collaborative Partnership on Forest, 2012). Considering that the rural poor in the continent are unlikely to have access to the mainstream mass media and the new media (Mtega, 2012), it is important that alternative information channels and media are employed in communicating the benefits of conservation to them. Using rural Nigeria as a case study, this article analyses the shortcomings and challenges of conservation communication in rural Africa. It explores the use of Indigenous African Communication Systems (IACS) in making conservation information meaningful for rural people and concludes that appreciating the peculiarities of rural people and their communication environment is important in effective conservation communication in rural Africa.

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Reporting on Climate Change: An Australian Perspective

Cited by 6 publications

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Information Sources and Constraints to Climate Change Adaptation amongst Smallholder Farmers in Amathole District Municipality, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

Information Sources and Constraints to Climate Change Adaptation amongst Smallholder Farmers in Amathole District Municipality, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

Climate risk disclosures and global sustainability initiatives: A conceptual analysis and agenda for future research

Rethinking Conservation Communication in Rural Africa: A Case for Indigenous African Communication Systems (Iacs)

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