UNITED KINGDOM–(ENEWSPF)–16 November 2010. Media coverage of the UN’s Copenhagen summit on climate change in 2009 ‘under-reported’ the climate science, according to a new study published by Oxford University’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ). It finds that most journalists reported extensively on ‘the drama and minutiae of the negotiations’ but that in the balance between capturing the drama and explaining the essential background to climate change, the science received scant coverage.
