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MEDIA-WORKSHOP 2018 "Communicating on Climate Change" - 4-5 JUNE, 2018 Paris, France - Forum International de la Météo et du Climat
MEDIA-WORKSHOP 2018
"Communicating on Climate Change"

           4-5 JUNE, 2018
            Paris, France

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MEDIA-WORKSHOP 2018 "Communicating on Climate Change" - 4-5 JUNE, 2018 Paris, France - Forum International de la Météo et du Climat
TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL                       P.3

ABOUT THE MEDIA-WORKSHOP        P.4

PARTICIPANTS' PROFILE           P.5

MAIN MEDIA & ORGANIZATIONS      P.6

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME 2018      P.7

TESTIMONIES FROM PARTICIPANTS   P.8

MEDIA COVERAGE BEST-OF          P.9

OVERVIEW PREVIOUS EDITIONS      P.10

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MEDIA-WORKSHOP 2018 "Communicating on Climate Change" - 4-5 JUNE, 2018 Paris, France - Forum International de la Météo et du Climat
EDITORIAL

Hoesung Lee                                            Petteri Taalas
Chair, IPCC                                            Secretary General, WMO
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change              World Meteorological Organization

  The International Weather                  It is a great pleasure for me to
  and Climate Forum provides                 serve as a patron of the
  an important opportunity for               International Weather and
  weather presenters and the                 Climate Forum. Since 15 years,
  scientific community to                    the WMO has supported the FIM
  engage with each other.                    and its goal of strengthening
  Developing contacts with                   knowledge and international
  weather presenters is one of               collaboration among weather
  the main focuses of the
                                             presenters. These well-known
  IPCC's outreach strategy.
  We've been working with the                TV and radio personalities are
  WMO for some years now to                  among the most effective
  support these meetings.                    communicators that we have in
                                             the WMO community. They
  I welcome the work of the
  Forum in bringing together                 deliver information and
  weather presenters to                      knowledge about the weather,
  improve their understanding                but also about science, climate
  of climate change.                         variability.
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MEDIA-WORKSHOP 2018 "Communicating on Climate Change" - 4-5 JUNE, 2018 Paris, France - Forum International de la Météo et du Climat
ABOUT THE MEDIA-WORKSHOP

 CONTEXT
 The Media-Workshop is organized each year in the framework of
 the International Weather and Climate Forum, which is a major
 meeting of mobilization and education bringing together different
 communities.
 The workshop gathers around 100 weather presenters and
 representatives of international organizations, from 50 countries.

AIMS
Dedicated to the discussion of communication strategies at a high
international level, the workshop aims at conducting an in-depth
reflection on how to communicate more effectively on Climate Change,
towards viewers but also policy-makers.

GOVERNANCE
For the next editions (2018, 2019 and 2020), the IWF is co-constructed within
the framework of a new partnership governance composed of:
Météo et Climat, Alliantis and IW2C.

The IWF is supported by a high-level Committee:
Petteri Taalas General Secretary of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Anne Hidalgo Mayor of Paris. Chair of C40
Hoesung Lee Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Jean-Marc Lacave CEO of the French National Meteorological Service Météo-France
Jean Jouzel President of Météo et Climat (French Meteorological Society)
Hervé Le Treut Director of the Institute Pierre-Simon Laplace

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PARTICIPANTS' PROFILE

                                KEY-FIGURES
                                100 participants
                                60 Weather Presenters (70% are
                                professional meteorologists)

                                50 Countries represented

                                               ASIA
NORTH AMERICA          EUROPE                  15%
    17%                 48%

                       AFRICA
      SOUTH AMERICA     16%
           7%

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MEDIA-WORKSHOP 2018 "Communicating on Climate Change" - 4-5 JUNE, 2018 Paris, France - Forum International de la Météo et du Climat
MAIN MEDIA & ORGANIZATIONS

Each year, the Media-Workshop brings together representatives from 50 countries:

COUNTRY          ORGANIZATION                  COUNTRY                 ORGANIZATION
ALGERIA          ENTV TV4                      NETHERLANDS             RTL
ARGENTINA        TV Publica Canal 7            PERU                    TV Perú
AUSTRALIA        ABC News, SBS Australia       POLAND                  TVP 1
BELGIUM          VTM, RTBF, RTL TVI            PORTO RICO              WKAQ
BELIZE           Channel 5                     QUATAR                  Al Jazeera
BOTSWANA         BTV                           REP. OF DJIBOUTI        RDTV
BRAZIL           TV GLOBO                      REP. OF SEYCHELLES      SNMS/SBC
BULGARIA         Nova TV                       REP. OF THE PHILIPPINES TV5
BURKINA-FASO     TNB                           SOUTH AFRICA            SABC

BURUNDI          RTNB                          SPAIN                   Antena 3 TV, TVE, TV3, Roca
                 ICI Radio Canada,
CANADA                                         SRI LANKA               MTV Channel
                 MeteoMedia, CBC
                 CCTV, Shanghai
CHINA                                          SWITZERLAND             RSI, SF TV, RTS
                 Meteorological Media Centre
CROATIA          HRT                           TAIWAN                  DaaiTV
CUBA             CubaVisión TV                 TURKEY                  TRT Haber
CZECH REPUBLIC   CT1 Czech Television          UNITED ARAB EMIRATES    Sky News Arabia
DENMARK          DBC                           UK                      BBC News
                                                                       ABC, CBC, WDID TV, NBC,
FIJI             Fiji TV                       USA
                                                                       Climate Central
FINLAND          YLE                           VIETNAM                 VTV
                 TF1, France Télévisions, BFM
FRANCE                                        EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL     European Commission
                 TV, M6, Cnews, MeteoGroup
GERMANY          ZDF, ARD, RTL, MunichRe       EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL European Climate Foundation
GREECE           Real Media                    EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL European Space Agency
INDIA            DD News                       EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL ECMWF
                 Rai, Mediaset, Agenzia
ITALY                                          EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL International Red Cross
                 Spaziale Italiana
JAPAN            NHK                           EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL IPCC
LIBANON          MTV Lebanon                   EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL UN Foundation
MOROCCO          2M                            EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL WMO

MEXICO           Televisa

MONGOLIA         Eagle TV
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MEDIA-WORKSHOP 2018 "Communicating on Climate Change" - 4-5 JUNE, 2018 Paris, France - Forum International de la Météo et du Climat
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME 2018

            Dates                 Venue              Languages
           4-5 June, 2018         Paris, France      English - French

                                             Presentations & Roundtables
                                             Exchanges with climate experts and
                                             other specialists in the psychological and
                                             social dimensions of climate
                                             communications, social science.
                                             Various topics such as : Recent scientific
                                             advances in the attribution of extreme
                                             weather events, Adapting to disaster
                                             risks, Mobilizing action on climate
                                             change, Observing the climate from
                                             space Climate…
Discussion Groups
Participants (average of 20 per groups)
discuss various topics related to
                                             Role Playing Game
extreme weather events and global            Communicating climate change complex
warming stakes, highlighting                 issues to people with no formal
constraints and opportunities in             education (and no scientific training) can
communication.                               be very difficult to perform.
At the end of the day, the rapporteurs       The participants will apprehend the
present to the audience a synthesis of       various approaches and stakeholders
the main outcomes of the discussions.        through an interactive role play.

                                              Exhibits

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MEDIA-WORKSHOP 2018 "Communicating on Climate Change" - 4-5 JUNE, 2018 Paris, France - Forum International de la Météo et du Climat
TESTIMONIES FROM PARTICIPANTS

Michael WILLIAMS (WMO) & Jonathan LYNN (IPCC)                 Paul MONARE, SABC (South Africa)
In addition to their growing role in communicating about      The workshop has significantly impacted my
climate change, weather presenters can use advances in        day to day workflow in a very positive manner.
climate science to provide forecasts and context about        I have now incorporated climate education in
seasons and other longer term time periods.                   my weather reports.
                                                              I inform the viewers about climate change,
                                                              sustainable development and 'green living.
           Evelyne DHÉLIAT, TF1 (France)
           The Forum plays a key role in the
           education and the awareness among the
           general public - especially of children -
           about the topic of climate change.

                  Ariel RODRIGUEZ, Telemundo 51 (USA)
                  The 13th IWF was an eye-opening              Everton FOX, Al Jazeera (Qatar)
                  experience for me as a meteorologist         I had the privilege of attending the
                  and environmental reporter. I came           IWF 2017, a truly international event
                  away with a revitalized sense of urgency,    […]. We aim to improve our
                  and with a better idea about how to          understanding of climate change as
                  communicate to my viewers the effects        we share resources and communicate
                  of climate change within our                 its importance.
                  community.

                                                                         Habibatou DIAKITÉ, ORTS (Mali)
               Tim NUTHALL, European Climate                             My country is located in the
               Foundation                                                Sahelo-Saharan Region,
               It was great to meet you all and to                       consequently temperatures may
               engage with the weather presenters.                       rise up to 46° (114.8ºF)!
               A very positive force in helping to                       Therefore, special and urgent
               tackling climate change. […] I think                      awareness-raising is imperative.
               you did a great job in bringing
               together such great people.

                Nam NGUYEN HOANG, VTV (Vietnam)
                I understand that not only Vietnam but
                other countries are also encountering
                their own climate change issue. We
                                                                 Marie-Pierre MOULIGNEAU, RTBF
                have the mutual problem of how to
                                                                 (Belgium)
                transform the communication in a way
                                                                 We are and must be the link between the
                that attract more audiences but still
                                                                 scientists and the public, because only by
                keep the scientific nature of
                                                                 raising awareness among people we’ll be
                information.
                                                                 able to change things.
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MEDIA COVERAGE - BEST-OF

                                                             France

                                           France

                                                               United States
        Belgium

Italy

                                  France

                                                             Czech Republic

                                           France

                        United States                                  Brazil

         South Africa

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MEDIA-WORKSHOP 2018 "Communicating on Climate Change" - 4-5 JUNE, 2018 Paris, France - Forum International de la Météo et du Climat
Workshop 2017 in Turin, at the Italian Meteorological Society H.Q.

Be aware of the importance of the role you
can play on climate change education.
Segolene Royal, Former Minister for Ecology and
Environment and President of COP21

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   Workshop 2016 in Paris, at the Ministry for Ecology and Environment
Reception at the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs
         by invitation of former Minister, Laurent Fabius

Workshop 2015 in Paris, at the Economic Social and Environmental Council

                        ...I support the fact that you use your fame
                        and talent to raise the public awareness
                        on Climate Change...
                        Rasmus H. Petersen
                        Former Minister of Climate and Energy, Denmark

Workshop 2014 in Paris, at the Economic Social and Environmental Council
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