Communicating Climate Change Indonesia is generally perceived as a nation where climate awareness is relatively low. Simply put, this is witnessed by the usual behavior of people in excessive single-use plastic products and the general absence of consciousness regarding waste sorting and advanced processes. In general, the public often fails to recognize the urgency of […]
Category: Climate Literacy
Jakarta’s Waterways: How is the community saving it?
“Water is Jakarta’s ally” The first thing that comes to the mind when we think about Jakarta is a picture of a metropolitan city with its relationship with water. Seasonal floods and tidal floods are undeniable especially when climate change is the culprit of this disaster, also the phenomena of sea-level rise, and the urban […]
Sexy Killers
The Documentary That Exposed Indonesia’s Dirty Climate Secret The Sexy Killers documentary released on YouTube in 2019 was not just a documentary, but it led to an uproar in the whole country. Within several weeks, 30 million Indonesians were compelled to confront the reality in which they had never been ready to encounter: their flourishing […]
Is Climate Justice a Real Challenge in India?
For decades, the global dialogue that centred on climate change has been dominated by two numbers: the increasing nature of carbon dioxide per million tons into the atmosphere, and gigawatt targets set by nations for mitigation. India a highly populated and culturally diverse country, the focus on emissions and macro-targets did not capture the hundreds […]
What ‘The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind’ Teaches Us About Climate Literacy
The arid fields of Wimbe, Malawi are under the blazing sun. The earth is torn apart by cracks and the crops are shriveled into withered husks. A family, helpless and standing next to a dying field is debating whether to make another planting or to submit to hunger. In this desperation, some young boy, William […]
The Ghosts We Fear
How Media Shadows Nuclear Energy’s Climate Promise In the world we live in, there are ghosts that we see and the ghosts we breathe, and not knowing much about.Imagine rusted steel and crumbling concrete, and the silence around abandoned nuclear power plants giving you fear of losing your life. It’s a ghost we can see, […]
From the Pulpit to the Planet
Climate Diplomacy Through Islamic Stewardship Muslims everywhere head to the mosque for Friday Prayers, or Jumu’ah prayers, in their hundreds of millions every Friday. More than just prayer, the khutbah is listened to and is designed to guide Muslims in their spiritual and moral life. But how many of them relate the big Islamic teachings […]
When the Storms End, the Struggle Begins
The Emotional Burden of Climate Change on Women in Pakistan “Women are the first to suffer from climate change, and often the last to be heard.” UN Women Climate change is a problem of the present. In many parts of the world, it is an escalating problem. Rural communities and agricultural societies that depend upon […]
Liberia’s Forest Future
What Do Current Deforestation Trends Tell Us? The answer to this question lies in global monitoring reports, national assessments, and the lifestyles or living experiences of communities. After looking into those sources, it becomes clear that the loss of forest in Liberia is still significant and, in several areas, increases. Nestled in West Africa, Liberia […]
The Role of Storytelling in Climate Communication
Climate change is a global concern that requires collective action from grassroots communities to national governments and international institutions. Scientists are working tirelessly, using advanced tools, models, and analytical methods to understand the impacts of climate change across different sectors and to generate reliable climate knowledge. Although the IPCC Assessment Reports (ARs) include a Summary […]