Category: Climate Literacy

Have you ever stopped thinking about as to where the next meal or diet comes from? For most people, it’s a quick trip to the grocery store or supermarket. But behind those stocked shelves is a huge, complex universal system that is continuously under fire. Today, we are discussing about the issue of food security—a […]

Floods and droughts dominate West African news. Yet another crisis is brewing in the background: extreme heat. Governments are dangerously unprepared. In discussions of climate change in West Africa, the focus has been on floods, deforestation, food insecurity, and rising sea levels. These are problems that need to be solved now, and they will not […]

Caption: Fresh oil palm fruit bunches (credit: KOMPAS.com/Pandawa Borniat) #SawitBaik emerged and became a trending topic on Indonesian social media, particularly Twitter (now known as X), in the months leading up to the end of 2019. The hashtag did not emerge organically, in the sense of being generated without orchestration by the public. The government […]

Lack of information is no longer a barrier to climate communication. Over the last few decades, scientists, politicians and campaigners have produced ever more publications, campaigns and media material warning of environmental disaster. Emissions are still increasing even though this is a saturated market and behavioural change is limited. These perpetual gaps, otherwise referred to […]

Imagine waking up and realizing that the ocean is no more a scene backdrop, but rather a silent encroacher at your doorstep. For thousands of inhabitants that reside along Liberia’s coastal cities, this is not metaphorical—it is a daily, continuous, and heart-wrenching reality that is unfolding. Coastal erosion, frequently depicted as the wearing down or […]

“Do you believe in climate change?” That was the question my lecturer directed at one of my classmates who came from Pakistan. The question came up in the middle of one of our class discussions, pushing all of us to think more critically. Why did my lecturer ask something like that? The way I understand […]

Climate change is a real threat to the existence of humanity. However, attention to this issue is not widely discussed in mainstream media coverage, in this case major online media outlets. A survey conducted by the Center of Economic and Law Studies (Celios) and Unitrend shows that, in the period from November 2022 to May […]

Eco-friendly labels on products made by large companies are no longer uncommon today. Products derived from palm oil all the way to cement now carry green-friendly stamps. Furthermore, more and more companies are claiming to have achieved net-zero. Some of the companies applying such claims even come from sectors that are generally known as major […]

Most people in Indonesia have probably heard phrases like “Jakarta will sink by 2050,” or “Demak is at risk of disappearing from the map,” or the even more commonly heard phrase “the end of the world is near.” If you look more closely at these phrases, they are not just expressions pulled from mythology or […]

“This year, we do not even know how to make a living anymore. All our land is gone. The orange orchards, everything has been wiped out,” said Mulyawati in a trembling voice, as reported by BBC Indonesia. Toward the end of 2025, Indonesia, an archipelago nation sitting on the Pacific Ring of Fire, was struck […]