11/10/2025
18:00 - 18:45
BBC Media Action
Pourquoi participer
In this session, Shobhana Gurung Pradhan, BBC Media Action Co-Regional Director for Asia-Pacific and Maurice Aaek, Editorial Lead will unpack how media and communication programmes can help audiences to build resilience to harmful climate narratives and the techniques used to spread these narratives.
Description de la séance
As climate change accelerates, so does the spread of climate-related misinformation.From claims that climate change is a Western agenda designed to suppress the economic rise of Asian superpowers, to narratives suggesting that climate change will benefit certain countries, misleading messages are widespread across Asia. When climate-induced hazards and disasters strike, misinformation spreads rapidly, particularly through social media. By questioning science or downplaying the impacts of climate change, mis- and disinformation distorts public understanding and influence climate policy and action in dangerous ways.
In this session, Shobhana Gurung Pradhan, BBC Media Action Co-Regional Director for Asia-Pacific and Maurice Aaek, Editorial Lead will unpack how media and communication programmes can help audiences to build resilience to harmful climate narratives and the techniques used to spread these narratives. She will draw on insights from recent BBC Media Action research on climate mis- and disinformation in Nepal.
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