The Environment on TV – are broadcasters meeting the challenge?

Ritchie Cogan
Ritchie Cogan 27th October 2013

5 March 2024—Rafah, Gaza. EMT staff work in the surgical theater at the European Hospital in Gaza. The third IRC/MAP emergency medical team operates in the European Hospital of Gaza. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) have deployed an emergency medical team to provide emergency and life-saving medical care. The team, composed of trauma doctors, surgeons, pediatricians and water and sanitation experts, are offering surge and relief support to hospitals and providing life-saving medical care to injured Palestinians. ©The International Rescue Committee Photo by Belal Khaled for the IRC


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This report looks at how television covers the environment, including key issues such as climate change and the weather, population, biodiversity loss, food and farming.

Our aim is to discover what works and what doesn’t and whether broadcasters could be more effective in engaging mainstream audiences. The focus is non-news output. The news provides small nuggets of information but the rest of television helps place these in a wider context and make them comprehensible.

Our findings are based on a quantitative study of all factual programming, drama and comedy on the main UK television channels over a 12 month period, and a series of interviews with TV commissioning editors, executives, independent producers, experts and NGOs.

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