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Time i heard any sort of nuanced scientific dissent. is that a problem, do you think? 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 thatjournalists s...

And wolfgang, daniela was talking about the global south and the issues they are 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 underst...

— i'm sure that'll be up— at the front of the newspaper. daniela, environmental reporter at brazil's valour economico — i suppose, what do you make of our discussion so far? are these discussions between journalists that you've been hearing so far here, are they similar to the ones you're having in brazil? yes. first of all, thanks for having me here. most welcome. yeah, was listening to you all, and they are all very similar things. so for instance, i've been covering these issues in valor since 2008, so for 13 years. and the first time i went to interview a climatologist in brazil, he ...

See across these organisations now. 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...

Daniela chiaretti is environment reporter at brazil's biggest financial newspaper, valour economico. natasha clark is the environment correspondent for the sun. tom chivers is the science editor at unherd. and wolfgang blau is the former global chief operating officer of conde nast — but he's now the co—founder of the oxford climatejournalism network. wolfgang, i gather you feel so strongly about climate change that you basically paused your career to educate yourself? it's true, kate. it suddenly came to that moment where i realised this is notjust a topic. this is so huge in every single...