Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 6 December 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion

Photo of Richard BrutonRichard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The debate around agriculture, in particular seems to be the increasingly most intense debate, where there is quite considerable argument about the impact on social life of changes that may be expected from a climate perspective. Does the BAI have protocols in place to guide local broadcasters in the conduct of debate around that sort of issue or is there good international practice to guide this? It has been an issue of intense debate with the maillots jaunes in France. Is a way beginning to emerge in which, in the words used by the BAI, fairness, objectivity and impartiality should be interpreted on these quite controversial issues?