Climate Change TV is the world’s first online broadcaster dedicated entirely to
climate change
Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in Global surface temperature, global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate variability and change, Climate change in ...
issues. It contains interviews from
heads of state
A head of state is the public persona of a sovereign state.#Foakes, Foakes, pp. 110–11 "he head of state
He or HE may refer to:
Language
* He (letter), the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads
* He (pronoun), a pronoun in Modern English
* He (kana), one of the Japanese kana (へ in hiragana and ヘ in katakana)
* Ge (Cyrillic), a Cyrillic letter cal ...
being an embodiment of the State itself or representative of its international persona." The name given to the office of head of sta ...
, government officials and negotiators,
NGO
A non-governmental organization (NGO) is an independent, typically nonprofit organization that operates outside government control, though it may get a significant percentage of its funding from government or corporate sources. NGOs often focus ...
's, Civil Society and business professionals with a range of views on the climate change negotiations.
It is hosted by Responding to Climate Change, an NGO and Official Observer to the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the UN process for negotiating an agreement to limit dangerous climate change. It is an international treaty among countries to combat "dangerous human interference with th ...
(UNFCCC).
RTCC provides a daily news and analysis service following latest developments in climate policy, research and other aspects of the climate debate. In February this year they submitted a series of proposals to the UNFCCC on raising the ambition of the Durban Platform, which had been agreed at
COP17.
The Studio is run for the UNFCCC at the annual COP. The interviews are hosted on RTCC and the UNFCCC's studio portal.
It provides for one-on-one video interviews with a wide array of stakeholders from civil society, intergovernmental organizations and party delegates. The studio provides a platform for discussing the effects of climate change, causes of global warming and possible solutions. It continues at COP17/CMP 7 after successfully running at
COP15/CMP 5 in Copenhagen, and
COP16/CMP 6 in Cancun.
At COP17, held in December 2011, the Climate Change TV Studio was visited by UNFCCC Chief Executive
Christiana Figueres, lead Netherlands negotiator Maas Goote, and UK Minister for energy and climate change
Greg Barker
Greg Barker is an American filmmaker and producer. In 2011, ''The New York Times'' described Barker as “a filmmaker of artistic and political consequence.”
Previous films include '' Sergio'' (short-listed in 2010 for the Academy Award for B ...
, along with members of Oxfam and 350.org.
Climate Change TV conducted interviews during COP29, which was held in Baku, Azerbaijan.
References
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UNFCCC
RTCC
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Climate change organizations