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Daniela chiaretti, environment reporter at valor economico, what do you make of our discussions? are these questions you have been hearing in brasil? first of all, thank you for having me. i was listening to what was being said, saying similar things, i covered this issue in brazil for 13 years, and the first time i went to interview a climatologist, he said, why are you here? this is strange, why? he said exactly what wolfgang and tom were saying, that you usually talk to the science pages of the newspapers, and if somebody from the market,

Should be, doubt is a core feature of science, some of the greatest scientific breakthroughs considered —— consist of overthrowing other previous certainties, so i agree, and some scientists say there is a struggle with journalists wanting definitive answers. going back to that elephant in the room, activists will question, my personal view is thatjournalists should not resort to activism and that there is no need for it, but we need to give the topic the visibility it deserves in the public interest. what is more difficult is, what is activism? activism a lot of the time consists of not r...

That is necessary because there is no topic that is not affected. explain what you mean by vertical. sports, culture, science, how you structure, the navigation of a news website. the different subjects, you say it cuts across them all. yes, for a long time when tom started his climatejournalism, it usually turned up in the science section, occasionally in the politics section when there was a big summit. increasingly it has started to show up in the economics or business section because of publicly listed companies having to reveal their risks from climate change on certain stock markets. but...

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 proper time—out to really at least try...

Will kill everyone. but certainly i feel like there's much more of a grounded—in—science and 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 scientists...