Tackling climate mis/disinformation: ‘An urgent frontier for action’

Climate impacts are accelerating with every fraction of a degree of global warming, yet denial, distortion and falsehoods about well-established scientific facts are flooding the internet and media landscape, according to the participants of a panel discussion at UN Headquarters on mis- and disinformation relating to climate change. https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2023/10/1142972
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Tackling climate mis/disinformation: ‘An urgent frontier for action’

Five ways media and journalists can support climate action while tackling misinformation

03 Oct 2022

It’s a fact: media shapes the public discourse about climate change and how to respond to it. Even the UN’s own Intergovernmental Panel of Experts on Climate Change (IPCC) warned clearly of this for the first time in the latest of its landmark series of reports.

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UN talks ‘honestly’ about the environment and avoids ‘scaremongering’

10 Feb 2021

The challenge of tackling climate change is one that the UN needs to talk about “honestly, without scaremongering” and by focusing on scientific fact, according to Inger Andersen, the Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). 

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Building a digital army: UN peacekeepers fight deadly disinformation

Building a digital army: UN peacekeepers fight deadly disinformation

19 Aug 2023

With smartphones, editing apps, and innovative approaches, some UN peacekeeping operations across the world are building a “digital army” aimed at combating mis- and disinformation on social media networks and beyond.