Climate change information for the poor

Under-resourced media are failing rural people in developing countries, who are most vulnerable to climate change and in greater need of information to protect themselves from more intense cyclones and longer droughts, according to a new study.

‘Journalists need resources and support from their editors to access rural areas to find out how people… are coping and adapting to climate change – these stories might be relevant to people living in another part of the world,’ said Mike Shanahan, press officer for the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), who contributed to the study, Climate Change and the Media. Read full article.