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And daniela, you're actually facing particular challenges in brazil because, of course, there it's very highly politcised as an issue because of the policies of mr bolsonaro. and i wonder if that means being a journalist in brazil, it also means you feel you're an activist too, in a sense? so more and more young people, more and more people are interested in climate issues in brazil and in the amazon. i'm a journalist — i think activists are a different kind of, let's say, animal. i'm not an ngo journalist — if i was, i would be an activist also. but of course, this is our huge challenge i...

For the media show. hello. heat pumps, decarbonisation, the paris agreement, net zero. with less than two weeks to go until cop26, we're being deluged with detail and jargon. but how much do you actually understand about climate change? do you even know what cop actually stands for? it's conference of the parties, if you don't. today, we're asking what role the media has in educating us about climate change. maybe you feel hectored, rather than informed. or maybe you think the media isn't going far enough. if we now face an existential crisis, should journalists dispense with the notion of obj...

South and the issues there being different when it comes to climate change from the global north — what do you make of how journalists around the world are approaching climate change? you mentioned the news corp decision to change from a previously sceptical position with their mission zero 2050 statements? to daniela's pointjust now, this summer with the heatwaves in europe and the various floods, you often heard european politicians say that the climate crisis is real and it is here. and i always found it an odd thing to say, to understand in the context of national politics, but it's also...

Well, i don't share that observation. i see quite a lot of scientific dissent — as there should be. doubt is a core feature of science, and some of the greatest scientific breakthroughs consist of overthrowing earlier certainties of other scientists. so i agree, and many scientists say to me that they really struggle with journalists wanting to get definitive answers from them. going back to the elephant in the room, at least in many newsrooms, the activism question — my personal view is that journalists should not resort to activism, and there's no need for it. but we need to give the top...

The forest is important because, for many reasons, not only because trees capture and store carbon, but also because of the biodiversity — it's a huge treasure that we don't know what's there — and also for all the knowledge of these indigenous people, that i mentioned before. so it's important for brazil — for instance, the tropical forest has a very important role...to rain. and the rain is important for our country, for the countries that neighbour us like argentina or uruguay, and for the climate of the world. we are all connected. and wolfgang, daniela was talking about the global