Global: Whatever the weather - media attitudes to reporting climate change

This month's meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Brazil will look at - among other things - how the effects of climate change are being addressed. The media can play an important role in stimulating discussion about the impacts and response to climate change in developing countries. But this survey of journalists and media practitioners in Honduras, Jamaica, Sri Lanka and Zambia shows that often the media have a poor understanding of the climate change debate and express little interest in it.