Climate Change Guide

Panos London provides this online resource for journalists and other media professionals who seek to help tackle the impact of climate change by providing the public with good-quality information.

The guide was prepared in the context of the December 2008 United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (Poznan, Poland). The Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) - set up by Panos, Internews and the International Institute for Environment and Development - brought 37 journalists from 28 developing countries to the negotiations. To that end, as part of the Climate Change Guide, video links and articles feature journalists who attended the conference talking about the difficulties of reporting on complex environmental issues.

Other offerings here include:

• "Climate Change: The Basics Guide", written by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) News Online environment correspondent, explains the science of our changing climate.
• "Climate Change: Africa and Asia" provides a picture of the likely impact higher global temperatures and rising sea levels will have on developing nations.
• "Climate Change: Adapting to the Greenhouse", which explains why adapting to climate change is particularly important to developing countries, and what might be done about it.
• Links to related helpful links are also provided, such as the BBC climate change glossary, "Kyoto Protocol: Questions and Answers" (The Guardian), the BBC guide to climate change, and the UN Environment Programme's "Details of Probable Regional Impacts of Climate Change."