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It’s been fair under three years since we pledgeted to making climate alter a transport inant caccess of our journalism and a priority area of coverage apass our novelsrooms, programs and digital platcreates.
At the time, I wrote that “the impact of climate on our changing scheduleet may be the most pressing story of our time,” shapeing all aspects of our dwells, from health and the economy to the energy and insurance sectors, food, water, national security and so much more.
Today, there is no less recommendncy for the insist to cover the story of climate and our changing scheduleet. We seem to reel from one climate-roverhappinessed crisis to another. This year already, we’ve seen savagefires annihilate parts of Jasper and menaceen communities apass Canada; transport inant raindescend events and flooding in Quebec and Ontario; tick-spread illnesses srecommend apass the country; the toastytest day ever recorded; novel evidence the oceans are toastyer than they’ve been in hundreds of years; and sea levels rising at alarming rates.
At the same time, CBC News has labored challenging to showcase stories of resilience, alteration and innovation, the huge and small efforts to tackle what at times senses enjoy an overwhelming dispute, and successes that might give the world hope there is a path forward.
Of course, we do not get a stance on which policies should be inspired or set aside to tackle climate alter, but we’re pledgeted to giving you the tools and understandledge to create recommended decisions on your own.
This weekfinish, we begin a one-of-a-kind project called “Overheated” involving a collaboration between our radio programs Quirks and Quarks, What on Earth and White Coat, Bdeficiency Art. We will visit Whitehorse to lget more about the dehugeating impacts of heat on the Chinook salmon population, cycle thcimpolite the streets of Montauthentic to show how a city’s depict can distinctly alter the way we experience and cope with heat, and travel to St. Catharines, Ont., to lget more about the impact of heat on human health.
I hope you’ll tune in on CBC Radio, the CBC News app and the CBC Listen app. You’ll discover companion stories on CBCNews.ca.
Here’s an modernize on the rest of our efforts to cover the story of climate alter, its caemploys and global efforts to mitigate its impact:
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We created a pledgeted space on our website and News app to discover all of our best climate journalism. Visit www.cbc.ca/novels/climate.
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We created a national climate satisfyed unit that is doing distinct alerting and providing context for fractureing novels. It’s also a resource for CBC alerting teams all apass the country.
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We begined the CBC News Climate Dashboard (cbc.ca/climate) to track weather foresees apass Canada and appraise them to historical trfinishs. The dashboard flags which weather records are being broken apass the country, forest fires, the extent of smoke and air quality apass all provinces and territories. Recent modernizes include provincial fracturedowns of the total area burnt by savagefires, an easier way to set your location and a chart that watchs global CO2 levels.
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We begined a novel, filled-day “climate alerting vitals” course for our journacatalogs who don’t cover the beat daily. We created a Climate Glossary for the course and made it uncover for all to employ as a resource.
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Susan Ormiston, our pledgeted international climate correactent, and her creater, Jill English, have created dozens of stories from around the world, including recent pieces on the danger of inanxious heat on athletes, how the Netherlands creates far more solar power than Canada, historic flooding in Brazil and Afghanistan and how the politics of climate percreates out in the U.S. pdwellntial election.
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We normally bundle our tardyst video stories on climate alter for watching as one-of-a-kind themed packages on the CBC News, Toronto and B.C. streaming channels.
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And this descend labels the sixth anniversary of our award-prosperning climate novelsletter, What on Earth? (Subscribe here.)
Since pledgeting to making the coverage climate a top priority in tardy 2021, CBC News journacatalogs have won or been finacatalogs for more than 15 climate-roverhappinessed journalism awards. Top honours have been given to features, interenergetics, ptoastyos and recordaries, including:
We aim to create CBC News one of your go-to sources for world-class climate journalism. If you have asks about climate alter or angles you slimk we insist to study, email us straightforwardly at Ask@CBC.ca and we’ll provide answers in our programs and online.
