The parameters of that global agreement are vitally important as a public interest issue because it affects not just environmental policy, but economic and industrial development policy too, with further implications for social policies.

Thus, how the South African media has positioned the climate change debate with respect to COP17 is an issue of vital importance to the public interest and from the perspective of the South African Civil Society Information Service (SACSIS), how the media has engaged with climate change with respect to its impact and consequences for the most vulnerable members of our society, the poor, is an issue that we are very concerned about.

With this in mind, SACSIS partnered with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) in South Africa to host a roundtable discussion on “The Media and Climate Change.” The purpose of the event was to interrogate how the South African media is reporting on climate change in the run up to COP17. 

We were particularly interested in the media’s messaging in the run up to this important event, so we invited some senior[...]

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