Climate Change Is a Global Issue

Twenty of the world’s richest countries – mostly in the Global North – are responsible for 80 percent of the carbon pollution that’s driving extreme weather and supercharging natural disasters. Yet poorer countries in the Global South are experiencing climate-induced disasters first and worst. Wealthier and whiter countries in the Global North are being hit by climate disruption as well, but they also have more resources to adapt. We talk with two award-winning journalists, one from each hemisphere, about covering climate change in their part of the world and bridging the disconnect that exists between North and South.

Guests: 

Lauren Sommer, Reporter, NPR

Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson, Reporter for The Guardian, Host of An Impossible Choice. 

For show notes and related links, visit ClimateOne.org.

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