The climate science community is clear that humans have changed the climate, but specifically how is more difficult to evidence. This is the document’s wording for the BBC’s “editorial policy” and “position” on climate change:Ĭlimate change has been a difficult subject for the BBC, and we get coverage of it wrong too often. The crib sheet, below, includes a summary of the “basics” on climate science, the BBC’s “editorial policy” and “position” on climate change, and a precis of domestic climate policies in the UK as well as at the international level. Carbon Brief can confirm, though, that the individual is not one of the BBC journalists who report on climate change.) (To avoid the risk of personal abuse or intimidation, Carbon Brief has decided to redact the email address of the BBC employee running the course.
If a journalist clicks on the email’s link to book a place on the course, they are taken to this page on the BBC intranet: In the meantime, you can read the Climate Change for BBC News crib sheet, and the Analysis and Research website by searching ‘climate change’ which cover the basics. Please book now by choosing a time from MyDevelopment (you’ll be prompted to login first), searching ‘reporting climate change’ on MyDevelopment, or emailing to set up a tailored session for your team. The one hour course covers the latest science, policy, research, and misconceptions to challenge, giving you confidence to cover the topic accurately and knowledgeably.
With this in mind, we are offering all editorial staff new training for reporting on climate change. Younger audiences, in particular, have told us they’d like to see more journalism on the issue. There are a number of important related news events in the coming months – including the latest report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Green Great Britain Week in October – so there will be many more stories to cover. This is the email sent by Fran Unsworth to BBC journalists yesterday:Īfter a summer of heatwaves, floods and extreme weather, environment stories have become front of mind for our audiences. The broadcaster has faced repeated criticism over the past decade for enabling “ false balance” on the topic of climate change, as well as for failing to fully implement the recommendations of the BBC Trust’s 2011 review into the “impartiality and accuracy of the BBC’s coverage of science”. Before Ofcom published its ruling in April, the BBC had already apologised for breaching its general editorial guidelines during the Lawson interview. Lawson, who chairs a UK-based climate-sceptic lobby group, had made false claims about climate change in an interview on Today in August 2017. The move follows a ruling earlier this year by Ofcom, the UK’s broadcasting regulator, which found that BBC Radio 4’s flagship current-affairs programme Today had breached broadcasting rules by “not sufficiently challenging” Lord Lawson, the former Conservative chancellor. Carbon Brief understands this is the first time that the BBC has issued formal reporting guidance to its staff on this topic. The crib sheet includes the BBC’s “editorial policy” and “position” on climate change.Īll of the BBC’s editorial staff have also been invited to sign up for a one-hour “training course on reporting climate change”.
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The BBC, one of the world’s largest and most respected news organisations, has issued formal guidance to its journalists on how to report climate change.Ĭarbon Brief has obtained the internal four-page “crib sheet” sent yesterday to BBC journalists via an email from Fran Unsworth, the BBC’s director of news and current affairs.
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