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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 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 p...

But now we see it emerge in the culture section, in sports, food, gardening, real estate, technology journalism — and i think that's a really good thing. so we have made progress. ok, so it's normalised certainly from the people running these organisations — tom, what about the audience appetite for stories, the audience appetite? how are they feeling about reading all this stuff? well, i don't know. there's certainly a... without using numbers to check, i feel my instinct is there is a strong appetite for all angles on it — as in, there's still a big niche for people who want to write t...

To read about, absolutely. but i'm sure as we gol into cop26, we'll have boris johnson and world leadersj coming from around the world — i'm sure that'll be up - at the front of the newspaper. 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...

Far in presenting it as some gigantic, terrifying, existential threat that 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 bou...