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 1100 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, to join our media list or to be connected with a spokesperson from a CAN member organization, please contact Communications Coordinator, Dharini Parthasarathy, at dparthasarathy@climatenetwork.org

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News Releases

New IPCC study on land and climate change must spur renewed political conviction to stop climate breakdown
August 8, 2019 - 3:40am

Geneva, 8 August 2019: The IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land released today is another stark reminder that we are in an ecological and climate emergency. This report-- coming after the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C and the IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity -- brings together the best available science on how the enormous pressure on land is exacerbating the climate crisis.

As heatwaves, floods and fires sweep the world, what are governments waiting for?
June 27, 2019 - 12:52pm

Civil society groups call for a concerted political push to raise ambition and deliver support in the coming months   

'Backsliding by G20 nations on climate is alarming when we need an emergency plan'
June 26, 2019 - 11:55am

The world's largest economies must respond with solutions proportionate to the magnitude of the climate emergency 

Bonn, 26 June 2019: In light of the worrying signals that the G20 are sending about their lack of commitment to climate ambition, civil society said that these countries are threatening to exacerbate the climate emergency and push the limits of dangerous warming beyond 1.5C degrees.

Glaring vacuum on political leadership threatens to undermine ability to address climate crisis
June 24, 2019 - 4:00pm

Bonn, 24 June 2019: Today at the UN climate talks in Bonn, civil society voiced its concerns that the political will and ambition needed to tackle the climate emergency is nowhere in sight.

Updates from week one of the Bonn climate meeting: uneven progress on technical issues
June 23, 2019 - 7:41am

Bonn, 22 June 2019: Mid-way through the intersessional UN climate negotiations in Bonn, CAN members say progress has been sluggish on countries’ cooperation to meet their Paris commitments or Article 6, on loss and damage and the implementation cycle of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), known as common timeframes.