Science communicators rise to climate challenge

by Jia Hepeng [COPENHAGEN AND MALMO] Science communicators from around the world have devised recommendations to put forward to the UN for better communicating climate change impacts and mitigation methods. The recommendations arose from the Copenhagen Challenge project, which took place in Copenhagen last week (26 June) at the Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) conference, and will be submitted for consideration by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). While climate change is an established fact in the scientific community, it is still a challenge to persuade people to take action, said Mikkel Bohm, director of the non-profit organisation Danish Science Communication, at the conference. He said the gathering of more than 500 science communicators at the PCST meeting offered a marvellous... [read full story]