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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 climate journalism 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 area ofjournalism — sports, culture, notjust news or science journalism would be changed. and i felt i had to take a proper time—out to really at least try and understand what this i...

Daniela, environmental reporter at brazil's valor 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. i 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 said, "why are you here? this is strange." and they said exa...

Will kill everyone. but certainly i feel like there's much more of a grounded—in—science and much less—contrarian nonsense than there used to be. yes, i suppose it's gone from a niche green issue to front—page news. and i suppose, actually, in your time at the telegraph, you'd have overlapped with borisjohnson in his days as a columnist? so i have an anecdote about that which i've never... yeah, he wrote a piece about saying climate scientists have convinced us all it was going to be warm and loads of people bought pools as a result, and it's still cold, and how dare you, climate scien...

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 objectivity and become ...

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 in the world. so, yeah, i think the environment and climate...