Media Centre

CAN is an important, critical voice in the international climate policy process. The network’s regular press briefings and commentary help journalists and their audience make sense of what can be a baffling process, even to those who have been covering it for years.

CAN helps coordinate and amplify the communications work of its 850 members around major international climate processes. CAN also provides an important capacity building role for some members interested in boosting their communications efforts.

Media Contacts:

To get a briefing on the latest developments in climate policy or to be connected with a spokesperson from a CAN member organization, please contact our international communications coordinator, Ria Voorhaar, at rvoorhaar (at) climatenetwork.org 

News Releases

Government Action: All that's missing as new report confirms climate crisis
October 4, 2013 - 5:20am

Governments have been handed a firm mandate to act decisively on the climate crisis by a new report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), according to 850 NGOs organized in the Climate Action Network. 

Local tourism, Dar es Salaam port under threat from rising seas
June 19, 2013 - 8:51am
Tanzania’s two major sources of income - tourism and trade - could be hit hard by climate change, according to a new report released by the World Bank today. 
 
The report, Turn Down the Heat - Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts and the Case for Resilience - takes an in depth look at what climate change means for Sub Saharan Africa. It compares the impacts on the region if warming continues at its current rate with impacts if governments successfully limit average global temperature rise to 2° Celsius.
 
 
Climate change threatening South Asian development: World Bank
June 19, 2013 - 8:39am
Climate change will overturn hard won gains in reducing poverty in South Asia as changing weather patterns make accessing water and food resources even more difficult, according to a new report released by the World Bank today. 
 
Extreme weather such as heat waves, devastating floods and droughts, and more intense tropical cyclones will hit the region with Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan bearing the brunt of the climate impacts, according to new research. 
 
What the Report says about life in South Asia at 4C:
 
Countries Must Commit at Warsaw to put numbers on the table in 2014
June 14, 2013 - 7:09am

Friday, June 14, Bonn – Germany:  Climate Action Network called for nations to agree a 2014 deadline for releasing their new carbon pollution reductions pledges before the close of the main climate talks in Warsaw this November.

The call came as the latest round of talks closed in Bonn today having made incremental progress on the shape of a comprehensive climate deal to be agreed in 2015.  But Greenpeace UK political advisor Ruth Davis said a deadline for pledges was vital for the negotiations to remain on track.

CAN NGO experts to comment on closure of Bonn climate negotiations, expectations for Warsaw talks
June 14, 2013 - 3:07am

NGO experts from Climate Action Network will hold a press briefing today at 14.30 CEST at Hotel Maritim on the closing of the UN climate negotiations in Bonn.  The press conference will be webcast live.

WHAT: NGO experts will brief media on the outcomes of the second UN climate negotiations of the year as well as civil society's expectations for the major talks of the year to be held in Warsaw in November. 

WHEN:Friday June 14, 14.30 CEST