Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 December 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Tara Peterman:
We are very conscious of getting those issues across in our coverage and we do lean on our partners. We have partnerships through the European Broadcasting Union and we get some of their content. We are not able to cover all the issues we would like to cover but we have articles represented online and we also have our chief reporters who are based around the world who can do stories on climate impact, justice and adaptation. One of our reporters went to Kenya and she talked about the fact that climate change was affecting women and girls to a great degree, and about the difficulty of food production. We are getting those stories through different means. We might get them from a local journalist, from one of our journalists who are travelling or through one of our partnerships.